Acrobat 10 has a major problem....read below!!!!!!

Question

Adobe has removed the option to enable 3rd party search server hit high lighting in Acrobat 10.... this feature has been all other version of Acrobat.... My site serves around 2,500,000 pdf files per month that used that feature... I will be posting on my site for all who use it to avoid Acrobat 10 until their a fix.....I have contacted DTsearch  who is the software vendor  I use for indexing my pdf files and made them aware of  this issue which effects their products and I'm sure many other vendors will be in the same boat........ What do you say Adobe ... is their a FIX or do you say not my problem.......
Tom Tryniski

Answer 1

The "#xml=" parameter to pass a Highlight File Format URL has indeed been removed from Acrobat X, and multi-phrase highlighting cannot be re-activated by the user. The process required a complex arrangement of plugins to communicate - the highlight, EWH and browser classes - and there are sound engineering reasons for the decision to depreciate and remove the feature - not least because it is increasingly difficult to get it to work in modern browsers.
HFF in in the form used by dtSearch was introduced in Acrobat 3, and documented up to Acrobat 6. It is disabled by default in Acrobat and Reader 9, and was omitted from the PDF Open Parameters specification for Acrobat 9, indicating to developers that it was depreciated:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf
Remaining on Adobe Reader 9 is not a suggested "solution", and of course now that Reader X is available, Reader 9 will be gradually removed from the distribution channels. It is currently available via the "all versions" download page along with Reader X, at
http://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/
The Protected Mode in Adobe Reader X is a vital layer of protection for users opening PDF files from remote sources, and several features of Acrobat X (encryption, portfolios, etc.) are unsupported by Reader 9 or earlier.
The "#search=" parameter, to run a search and highlight the first instance of a single word or list of single words, remains in place and remains documented.