You can use Acrobat™ Reader to perform very fast text searches of the Adobe™ Acrobat version of the OpenDoc documentation.
First, you must install Acrobat Reader 2.1 With Search for CD ROMs; follow the instructions in the Acrobat Reader 2.1 folder in the Utilities folder on this CD. After installation, the Help folder in the Adobe Acrobat folder (on your hard disk) contains two Acrobat documents (ReadMe-Search.pdf and Help-Search.pdf) that describe how to use Acrobat Search. Basically, you access the search feature from the Search item in the Tools menu:
1. To get started, you must first select the search index(es) to include.
Select the Indexes command from the Search item, and choose the index
or indexes you want to include. The indexes have names with a suffix of .PDX;
each book’s index file (plus related files) is in a folder within the book’s folder.
2. Once you have selected the index, you can then create a query in the Search
window with the Query command or with the Search Query button in the tool bar.
Acrobat Search supports complex queries that can include phrases, Booleans,
and wildcards. You can limit the search to specific indexed documents, and
you can select options such as word-stemming, case sensitivity, and proximity.
3. The results of your search are shown as a list of file names in the Search
Results window, ranked by relevance. You can select any name and double-click
on it, and then use the Search Next and Search Previous buttons in the tool bar
to look at successive occurrences of the search term.
