>I actually never used the PDF index you mention. If its extension gets associated when you install Acrobat Reader, there should be no problem, but it seems the browser is getting in the middle. Did you try it with IE or are you using Opera/Mozilla?
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>Well, I'm not sure about the purpose of the index, but thinking in a list of documents (like a table of contents) it could be replaced for something that doesn't need Acrobat (until a document is selected).
Well, it is about a full-text search - similar to Google, etc., the user can search for a word in a collection of 1700 PDF documents. So HTML is really no substitute.
I will probably just put instructions, below the table of contents perhaps, to open a specific document if the user wants a full-text search.
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