BetterRed
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For reasons I've forgotten I use the PDF-Xchange iFilter in preference to the Adobe one.
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Prior to installing the Adobe Ifilter, I tried to find the Xchange version, but it appears to no longer be free. If you know something that I don't, please share.
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Yes that's a good feature of Xchange_viewer - use with tabbed interface to search in multiple books. I use calibre search to identify books (by tag, author etc), then I open each one in xChange and use its search to find relevant passages. eg Search calibre for author Krugman or Stiglitz then open each PDF and search for 'underwater' etc.
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I went back and re-read my note that you responded to and realize I did not emphasize what I was so enamored with in Xchange's search feature. My description sounds like a simple search within a single book or magazine.
Actually, what I meant to describe is how Xchange has the ability to search within
ALL magazines within a target folder (without opening any files first) and show you the results in its search pane of where each instance of the target string is found with the page reference of each location.
Even before the search has run through all of the files within the folder, you can click on a found result and Xchange will open the magazine and jump you to that page and the string will be highlighted.
(see attachment as an example of how it shows multiple 'found' locations and the highlighted string in the mgz I clicked in the list)
No need to do what it sounds like you described, if I understand you correctly.
One negative is that it isn't indexing anything; searches each page of each mgz each time you want to search for a new string. And, you cannot select a smaller set of mgz within a folder to save time on the search. It searches the entire folder.
To your how-to on using FileMenuTools (FMT), I'll need more time to see how to do this and work it with the Reading List PI.
Thank you for the suggestion and will get back with you about that.
Thank you very much,
Delain