Reader 9 cannot open catalog index created by Acrobat 9 (action)

Question

I am making a CD of a collection of PDFs. I have created a catalog index (.pdx) with Acrobat 9. I have also created a title document with Acrobat 9 with a button which runs the action "Execute menu item" which opens the .pdx index file for searching the collection via the action command "Open a file ->%path%<filename>.pdx. Everything works find when this CD is run on a machine which has Acrobat installed. I get a message asking if D:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe may be launched, and I say OK, and then the search window opens. When I try this action on a computer that has just Reader 9, I receive the message asking if D:\...\AcroRd32.exe may open the file. When I say OK, nothing happens. If I instead double-click on the .pdx file, the search window open OK. I would like to distribute this CD so that the search button works with either Acrobat or Reader installed. Thanks for any input. -GP

Answer 1

You can assign the .pdx index file in the properties of your title document.