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Click the paperclip icon to see a list of any attachments in the
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Last Reviewed: May 21, 2011
Article: DTS0166
Applies to: dtSearch Desktop
To make hit highlighting work in Adobe Reader X or Adobe Acrobat X, you will need dtSearch version 7.67 or later, and you will also need a dtSearch plug-in for Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat. To get the plug-in, install dtSearch version 7.67 or later, run dtSearch Desktop, and click Options > Preferences > PDF View Options > Configure Plug-in. For information on this plug-in, please see http://download.dtsearch.com/pdfhl
Alternatively, you can have dtSearch display PDF files as plain text (without using Adobe Reader). To do this, run dtSearch Desktop and click Options > Preferences > PDF View Options, and check the option to "View PDF files as text".
dtSearch is able to highlight hits in PDF files if you have a compatible PDF viewer installed on your computer. If the PDF viewer you use does not support hit highlighting, then PDF files will appear without hit highlighting in dtSearch. For a list of compatible problems, please see PDF viewers that support highlighting hits.
There are two settings that can affect this:
(1) In dtSearch Desktop, click Options > Preferences > External Viewers,
and make sure the box to "View PDF files in a separate Adobe Reader
window" is not checked.
(2) In Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat, click Edit > Preferences > Internet, and under "Web Browser Options" make sure the box to "Display PDF in browser" is checked. Sometimes, especially in Adobe Reader 7, this option is checked but Adobe Reader seems to ignore it anyway. If this happens, uncheck the box, click OK, then open Edit > Preferences > Internet again, re-check the box, and click OK.
(1) In dtSearch Desktop/Network, click Options > Preferences > External Viewers, and check that you have "Standard" selected under "PDF viewing options."
(2) The PDF file may have attachments. To tell if
a PDF file has attachments, open it in Adobe Reader and look for this
icon on the right edge of the window: .
Click the paperclip icon to see a list of any attachments in the
file.
When dtSearch indexes a PDF file with attachments, the only way to highlight hits in the file is to extract the text because Adobe Reader has no built-in way to highlight hits in an attachment. If you do not want to search in the attachments, click Options > Preferences > Indexing Options, and uncheck the box to "Index attachments in PDF files". This will allow PDF files with attachments to be displayed normally after a search. (You will need to rebuild your indexes after changing this option.)
After installing the upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 (which
can happen via Windows Update), some users start seeing a "Script
Error" when opening a PDF file in a browser window or in dtSearch.
This appears to result from damage to the integration between Internet
Explorer and Adobe Reader. To fix the problem, the integration settings
have to be restored. There are several ways to do this:
Option 1. Download and install the latest version of Adobe Reader
from www.adobe.com
Option 2. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs, click on the Adobe Product you are using, and click "Change/Remove". When the "Program Maintenance" window appears, select "Repair".
Option 3. In Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat, click Edit > Preferences > Internet, and under "Web Browser Options", un-check the box to "Display PDF in browser", click OK, then open Edit > Preferences > Internet again, re-check the box, and click OK.
When a PDF file is displayed in dtSearch Desktop, the "Next Hit" and "Prev Hit" buttons on the dtSearch Toolbar are disabled, and instead you can use the "Next Hit" and "Prev Hit" buttons on the Adobe Reader toolbar. To find the buttons on the Adobe Reader toolbar, look for like those pictured on the right.
If the buttons on the Adobe Reader toolbar are grey, it means that either the PDF file has no hits that can be highlighted (for example, if you searched on the filename), or the hits may all appear on the same page.
Note: In Adobe Reader, the "Next Hit" and "Prev Hit" buttons take you to the next or previous page with hits, so if all of the hits are on one page, these buttons cannot do anything.
If the dtSearch "Next Hit" and "Prev Hit" buttons do not appear in the Adobe Reader toolbar, then the dtSearch plug-in to highlight hits may be disabled. This can happen in Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat if the "Certified Plug-ins Only" setting is enabled.
To solve the problem, do the following:
(1) Open Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat
(2) Click Edit > Preferences > General to access startup options (in version 6, click Edit > Preferences > Startup)
(3) Un-check the "Use only certified plug-ins" box and click OK.
(4) Close Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat
If you have Adobe Acrobat, the same procedure must be done to change the setting for Adobe Acrobat. (In Adobe Acrobat, click Edit > Preferences > General to access the Preferences dialog box.) Additionally, you may need to reboot for the option change to take effect. This may be necessary if there is a hidden instance of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader running on your computer.