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From: Frank Dunn <frank@brazen.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat?
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In article <CLqJ95.96D@tc.fluke.COM> Gary Benson, inc@tc.fluke.COM writes:
> This is only one among many serious defects, at least in my opinion.
Acrobat
> is pretty lithe in converting an existing document to another form, but
hey,
> so is Word For Windows! Adobe seems to have put the absolute minimum of
> search and information linking capabilities into a pretty simple viewer.
> Besides that, Acrobat has a seriously deficient set of search tools.
> Compare it to a product like DynaText from EBT, for example. In
Acrobat, you
> get to search ONE time for ONE string. If that isn't the one you want,
you
> do it again, not even as accomplished as W4W's "Find Next"... In a
DynaText
> document, you get to say things like "Find <string> OR <regular
expression>
> AND <<regular expression>OR <string>> within the same paragraph".

This will change when Adobe ship Acrobat with Veritys Topic search
engine. 
It should have a full set of retrieval tools...