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Topic: Re: Backward compatibility (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) PDF Conferences, Msg: 100983
From: prodok
Date: 11/20/2003 04:08 AM

>> This MUST be considered to be an Acrobat issue. Apparently, Adobe has
>> not been willing or able (probably both) to implement Search for
>> Acrobat 5 under OS X.
>>
>
> You want to get specific, Max - you got it ;).

Thanks for these explanations, Leonard. Sounds kind of plausible...


> Acrobat 5 (and earlier) catalog/indexing is based on the
> Verity search engine. Adobe licensed this only in binary form (ie.
> no source code). Verify does not offer a Mac OS X version of their
> library - hence Adobe was unable to provide a Mac OS X version of the
> plugin.

That could be considered short-sighted. But one is always smarter
afterwards...


> So it IS an OS issue, since the supplier of the technology
> that Adobe choose to use many years ago does not offer a Mac OS X
> version of their software :(. Fortunately, Adobe now has a source
> license for their new indexing engine so this problem won't happen
> in the future.


And I guess by the time they found out about these issues, it had been
decided to change the provider of the system anyway...

And those Mac users can wait anyway...

But I still don't consider it to be an OS issue, but an implementation
issue of an application.


Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering
Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland

Phone: +41 1 700 29 21
Fax: +41 1 700 20 37
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e-mail: mailto:max@prodok.com
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