A complete documentation set is available in Adobe Portable Document
Format (PDF).
To view or search these files, you
can use Acrobat Reader with Search,
available from Adobe Systems and also
included on your MATLAB CD-ROM.
Visit the Adobe Acrobat home page
for information about Adobe Acrobat.
You can perform full-text
searching across the set of PDF documents
included in this release,
as described under
Search and Retrieval Using Acrobat, below.
You can perform search and retrieval operations
across the set of PDF documents included in this release.
To make use of this feature, you need to
have Acrobat Reader with Search
(which is part of Adobe's Acrobat 3 release,
and also included on your MATLAB CD-ROM).
Alternatively, you can use the Search tool included
with Acrobat 2 software, described below.
Searching Using Acrobat 3
If you have Acrobat Reader with Search, you can
issue the Tools > Search > Query
command to search for a term.
However, the first time you use Search, you have to
indicate the location of the search index used by Acrobat
to facilitate searches.
Do this as follows:
Issue the Tools > Search > Indexes... command.
On the Index Selection dialog box that
appears, click the button labeled "Add...".
Using the "Add Index" dialog box that appears next, specify
the following index file located under the MATLAB root
directory:
help/pdf_doc/mw_index/index.pdx
The selected index, labeled "MathWorks 5.3 Online Documentation",
with its checkbox checked,
should now appear in the Index Selection dialog box.
Click OK to complete the selection.
Having selected the index, you can now perform
searches
by issuing the Tools > Search > Query command.
This brings up
the Adobe Acrobat Search dialog box. In the text area
labeled "Find Results Containing Text", enter the word
you want to search for.
Then click the Search button to initiate the search.
Acrobat responds by displaying the "Search Results" dialog box,
listing all documents in which query was found.
Double-click on a document name to open the document.
Acrobat opens the document to the page containing the
word you searched for, which is highlighted.
You can move forward to the next match for your query
by using the Tools > Search > Next command.
Acrobat Search can perform boolean and other more
sophisticated searches. See the Adobe documentation
for more information.
Searching Using Acrobat 2
For Acrobat version 2, the Search tool is not included
with the Acrobat Reader software, but is available
in some of Adobe's commercial packages, such as
Acrobat for Workgroups. In Acrobat for Workgroups,
the Search tool is provided as a plug-in that works
under the Acrobat Exchange program.
If you do have a copy of Adobe's Search software, you
can perform searches using Acrobat Exchange.
Specify the search index and issue queries
as described above.