How to unpack pdx files

Edit online

This .zip collection contains all PDFs and a .pdx for this product documentation library. All of the PDFs are enhanced with Adobe Acrobat Indexed search capabilities. This collection is designed to provide you with an offline way to search across the PDFs for the selected product. The collection contains a single Adobe Acrobat full text search index, so you can perform a comprehensive search across all delivered PDFs in the collection. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat reader to read and search. Search results are displayed in context by deliverable title, to help if you are familiar with the library find the information you want more quickly.

Note: The pdx package is only available for product teams that have elected to support the pdx function. If your product content does not have a pdx option in the left navigation pane, then this feature is not available for your product. Products with large collections of pdf files can use this feature. Products with only one pdf, will not need this feature. But, the pdx files are not generated automatically and must be provided by the product content team for them to be on IBM Documentation.

Requirements

The search on this collection uses Adobe® indexing technology. Only the Adobe Acrobat DC® free reader for windows has been tested and is supported. This feature may work with other readers and on other platforms, but none are guaranteed. The Adobe free reader is available at the following URL: https://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/

Searching off-line using this collection

  1. Open your file explorer to the subdirectory where you extracted this collection.
  2. Look for a file with the ".pdx" extension. If your subdirectory is sorted alphabetically by name, the ".pdx" file is near the bottom of the list of files.
  3. Right mouse click on the file with the ".pdx" extension and you should receive a prompt to "Open with." Select " Adobe Acrobat Reader DC ."
  4. When the Acrobat reader opens, click on the "Advanced Search" dialog window to bring it to the foreground.
  5. To tile the advanced search dialog with the content pane, click on the " Arrange Windows " button located at the top of advanced search dialog.
  6. In the Advanced Search panel, always make sure that the ".pdx" from this collection is selected under "Where would you like to search."
  7. To leverage the real power of the index, click on the " Show more options " link located at the bottom of the advanced search dialog.