Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

View, sort, and search components in a PDF package

Both Adobe Reader users and Acrobat users can view, sort, and search component files in a PDF package.

Note: You can dramatically increase the speed of searches by creating an embedded index when you create a PDF package.

View component PDFs in a PDF package

The PDF package navigation bar contains buttons that control the visibility and placement of the list of component files. If the list is hidden, the View Top button or View Left button will make the list visible either horizontally or vertically adjacent to the document pane.

  1. Open the PDF package in Acrobat.
  2. In the PDF package navigation bar, select the View Left  or View Top button , as needed, so that you can see the list of component PDFs.
  3. Select the PDF you want to read. Or, use the Open Next  and Open Previous  buttons to review the component PDFs one by one.

Sort the components of a PDF package

Because the data categories are shown in columns in View Top mode, use that view to complete this procedure.

  1. In the PDF package navigation bar, select the View Top button , if necessary, so that you can see the list of component PDFs and the categories bar across the top of the list.
  2. Do any of the following:

    • Click a category name. Click it a second time to reverse the order between Ascending and Descending.

    • In the PDF package navigation bar, choose Options > Sort By > [category name].

    • Right-click/Control-click a PDF in the list or anywhere in the categories bar and choose Sort By > [category name].

    • Right-click/Control-click a PDF in the list or anywhere in the categories bar and choose Package Properties. Then choose options in the Sort By and Sort Order menus. (This sets the default sorting for the PDF package.)

Note: Unless you change the default sorting for the PDF package, the sorting remains in place for only the current session or until you change the sorting again. The next time you open the PDF package, it will appear in the default sorting order.

Search component PDFs in a PDF package

  1. Choose Edit > Search, or choose Open Full Acrobat Search on the Find toolbar pop-up menu.
  2. Select which PDFs to search. You can search only the currently open document, several documents that you select, or all the PDFs in the package.
  3. Enter the search text and select other options for searching, as usual.