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Topic: Re: Will you upgrade? If so, to Pro or Standard?
Conf: (P-PDF) Acrobat 6.0, Msg: 90010
From: jann
Date: 6/16/2003 08:43 PM

>>Then they are professional Acrobat users. They are NOT
the average office person (aka secretary, management, etc.)

- nope, nope, nope... maybe a testament to the skill of our trainers, but we have plenty of very, very ordinary office users creating Catalog indexes on a daily or weekly basis

'This is amazing - why don't Adobe promote this feature more? I can now create a pdf repository and make it instantly available across our network, almost like having a mini-DM facility!' - is a comment we hear at least every other week. Which is why I know that Adobe's 'hearing' must be defective when it comes to 'listening' to what end-users want.

>True, but how many of them like the process of CREATING a
>Catalog. It is NOT a process for the masses - hell, even I
>never bother to create one for all the PDF's on my disk since it's a pain!! And then there is remembering to update
>it, etc.
- I love it when a techie I respect admits to having a lazy side - makes them into a fully-rounded human being rather than some android :O) [Cataloging is extremely logical, so can be surprisingly easy to use once the concept has 'clicked' - that's why I insist on it being demonstrated/taught]

Now, if Acrobat would auto-Catalog and Index (ala
>Sherlock on Mac OS), THAT would be a good
>thing!
- agreed. The new IIS filter working with MS Search might work with this.

>I'm sure many people disagree if we all agreed, it would
>be boring around here ;).
- you're right, it's just a novelty for me to be disagreeing with you!!!

But Adobe marketing had to make some decisions and I am
>sure they >looked pretty hard at numbers,
>market segments, etc.

- Leonard, I love your loyalty to Adobe - but sometimes old friends need to be told the cold, hard truth before things get out of hand. Or in the case of Adobe, be slapped in the face with a wet fish.

>>looked pretty hard at numbers<< - errrm, the only intensive examination of numbers looks like having been Chizen and co. looking at their stocks n' bonds statements this month... :O)