Revise an index

You can update, rebuild, or purge an existing index.

  1. Select Advanced > Document Processing > Full Text Index With Catalog, and then click Open Index.
  2. Locate and select the index definition file (PDX) for the index, and click Open.
  3. If the index was created with Acrobat 5.0 or earlier, select Create Copy to create a new index (without overwriting the earlier version), or select Overwrite Old Index to overwrite the earlier index.
  4. In the Index Definition dialog box, make any changes you want, and then click the function you want Acrobat to perform:
    Option Description
    Build

    Creates a new IDX file with the existing information, and updates it by adding new entries and marking changed or outdated entries as invalid. If you make a large number of changes, or use this option repeatedly instead of creating a new index, search times may increase.

    Rebuild

    Creates a new index, overwriting the existing index folder and its contents (the IDX files).
    Purge

    Deletes the index contents (the IDX files) without deleting the index file itself (PDX).