Acrobat 7 & Spotlight Metadata

[Scott_Melendez@adobeforums.com]

I know this may sound like a fairly simple question, but do PDF files that are created by Acrobat 7 Professional (either via File-Print, Distiller, or within Acrobat) already have metadata that is searchable by OS X 10.4's Spotlight? I'm still a little fuzzy on how Spotlight does its searches, but I am mostly concerned that my Acrobat 7 PDF files are searchable.

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

Spotlight should be able to read text within a PDF file created by Acrobat 7 Professional created by any of those methods. I believe it should also read the fields in File > Document Properties > Description, but I haven't tested this.

[MarkATS@adobeforums.com]

I am mostly concerned that my Acrobat 7 PDF files are searchable.




Are you concerened that this is a bad thing or a good thing?

[MichaelPaul_Wyman@adobeforums.com]

Acrobat 7 Pro causes Microsoft office X to crash in Mac 10.4

I had everything working correctly in panther. After doing a clean install of Tiger and reinstalling Adobe Creative Suite then installing Office X. Office X worked fine Except the tool bars for Acrobat were no longer there. I started Acrobat 7 and it asked to repair several files. after this was done word, excel, powerpoint would crash on start up.

I have finally narrowed it down to the files Acrobat puts in the start up folders when it does the repair. The files are PDFmaker.xla, PDFmaker.dot, PDFmaker.ppa. When I removed these
the programs worked fine.

For some reason these don't work in TIger but they did in Panther.

Any help in fixing this would be great

Thanks

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

MichaelPaul,

This doesn't appear to be a problem in Office 2004.

I'd suggest either to upgrade Office, or simply to do without those files. You don't need them. Since you have Acrobat 7 Professional, I'd print from Office through the Adobe PDF 7.0 printer installed by Acrobat, which I think is faster anyway.

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

MichaelPaul,

One other thing. It would have been better to have started a new topic. This really doesn't have anything to do with Spotlight Metadata!

[MikeKazlow@adobeforums.com]

Michael Paul,

For what it is worth. I wasn't able to get the Acrobat toolbar to work
in a document using Word X under Tiger, however,when I closed the Word X
document and tried again it worked. There may not be anything inherently
wrong with the toolbar under Tiger.

Mike

BTW Steve was right, do not further respond here, but start a new topic
please.

[yassy@adobeforums.com]

Spotlight actually will search inside text of pdf? i thoughts that spotlight does search just pdf file.

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

Yes, Spotlight can search the text inside a PDF.

[Scott_Melendez@adobeforums.com]

MarkATS: I want this to be a good thing. I just wanted to know if Acrobat 7-created PDFs will have meta data already embedded, without any further work.

[Scott_Melendez@adobeforums.com]

As a slight segueway, will PDF files created on Windows have meta data that can be searched by Spotlight? I often have to use Windows ACrobat 7 for the features not available on the Mac.

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

A PDF is a PDF. As long as the type remains vector (you didn't choose some crazy printer driver setting that creates a bitmap) it should be searchable. The metadata that's searchable is the same as well.