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  String Search in Preview gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-05-26 14:29 -0700
    Re: String Search in Preview Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-05-26 19:15 -0400
      Re: String Search in Preview gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-05-26 18:23 -0700
    Re: String Search in Preview Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2014-05-26 19:54 -0700
      Re: String Search in Preview gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-05-26 21:27 -0700
        Re: String Search in Preview Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2014-05-26 21:49 -0700
          Re: String Search in Preview gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-05-27 00:02 -0700
    Re: String Search in Preview Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-27 05:18 +0000
      Re: String Search in Preview gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-05-27 00:06 -0700
        Re: String Search in Preview Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-05-27 19:17 +1200
          Re: String Search in Preview Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-05-27 09:22 -0700

#59707 — String Search in Preview

Studying Logic Pro docu, I want to find a string, such as "delay in ms" 
in Preview. I can't find a way to indicate a string; quotes, single 
ticks, colons.  It just searches willy-nilly for any/all of these 
elements, and will even find "ms" as the conclusion of the word 
probleMS.

Is there any way to do a string search in Preview?

Failing that, any convenient way to do string searches in a program 
that will load pdf's?

I find I can load the entire 1300 page document into Safari and a 
handy-dandy version of Adobe will search for strings. It's pretty slow, 
and refuses to let me print individual pdf pages from within it and 
other Adobe-style headlocks.

Any ideas? 

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#59714

In article <2014052614290486476-xxx@yyyzzz>, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:

> Studying Logic Pro docu, I want to find a string, such as "delay in ms" 
> in Preview. I can't find a way to indicate a string; quotes, single 
> ticks, colons.  It just searches willy-nilly for any/all of these 
> elements, and will even find "ms" as the conclusion of the word 
> probleMS.
> 
> Is there any way to do a string search in Preview?
> 
> Failing that, any convenient way to do string searches in a program 
> that will load pdf's?
> 
> I find I can load the entire 1300 page document into Safari and a 
> handy-dandy version of Adobe will search for strings. It's pretty slow, 
> and refuses to let me print individual pdf pages from within it and 
> other Adobe-style headlocks.
> 
> Any ideas? 

What's really annoying is that it also treats the "." in a decimal 
number as a word separator. One of my brokerage web sites downloads the 
monthly statement in PDF format. I can't search for a specific dollars 
and cents value -- it finds any mention of the dollar or cents value. So 
if I try to find 123.00, it will find all occurrences of "00" in the 
statement.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***

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#59722

On 2014-05-26 23:15:57 +0000, Barry Margolin said:

> In article <2014052614290486476-xxx@yyyzzz>, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> 
>> Studying Logic Pro docu, I want to find a string, such as "delay in ms"
>> in Preview. I can't find a way to indicate a string; quotes, single
>> ticks, colons.  It just searches willy-nilly for any/all of these
>> elements, and will even find "ms" as the conclusion of the word
>> probleMS.
>> 
>> Is there any way to do a string search in Preview?
>> 
>> Failing that, any convenient way to do string searches in a program
>> that will load pdf's?
>> 
>> I find I can load the entire 1300 page document into Safari and a
>> handy-dandy version of Adobe will search for strings. It's pretty slow,
>> and refuses to let me print individual pdf pages from within it and
>> other Adobe-style headlocks.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
> 
> What's really annoying is that it also treats the "." in a decimal
> number as a word separator. One of my brokerage web sites downloads the
> monthly statement in PDF format. I can't search for a specific dollars
> and cents value -- it finds any mention of the dollar or cents value. So
> if I try to find 123.00, it will find all occurrences of "00" in the
> statement.

Snooping around I find that I can do useful searches in a pdf with Skim 
which I found laying about in my application folder.It certainly loaded 
a 1300 page pdf in about a 10th the time it took Adobe's Reader to load 
it.  It's free:

	http://skim-app.sourceforge.net

Still, Preview is my default, it would be nice if it worked...



	

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#59728

On 2014-05-26 21:29:04 +0000, gtr said:

> Studying Logic Pro docu, I want to find a string, such as "delay in ms" 
> in Preview. I can't find a way to indicate a string; quotes, single 
> ticks, colons.  It just searches willy-nilly for any/all of these 
> elements, and will even find "ms" as the conclusion of the word 
> probleMS.
> 
> Is there any way to do a string search in Preview?
> 
> Failing that, any convenient way to do string searches in a program 
> that will load pdf's?
> 
> I find I can load the entire 1300 page document into Safari and a 
> handy-dandy version of Adobe will search for strings. It's pretty slow, 
> and refuses to let me print individual pdf pages from within it and 
> other Adobe-style headlocks.
> 
> Any ideas?

Double quotes work for me.

What version of Preview?

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#59731

On 2014-05-27 02:54:46 +0000, Alan Baker said:

> On 2014-05-26 21:29:04 +0000, gtr said:
> 
>> Studying Logic Pro docu, I want to find a string, such as "delay in ms" 
>> in Preview. I can't find a way to indicate a string; quotes, single 
>> ticks, colons.  It just searches willy-nilly for any/all of these 
>> elements, and will even find "ms" as the conclusion of the word 
>> probleMS.
>> 
>> Is there any way to do a string search in Preview?
>> 
>> Failing that, any convenient way to do string searches in a program 
>> that will load pdf's?
>> 
>> I find I can load the entire 1300 page document into Safari and a 
>> handy-dandy version of Adobe will search for strings. It's pretty slow, 
>> and refuses to let me print individual pdf pages from within it and 
>> other Adobe-style headlocks.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
> 
> Double quotes work for me.
> 
> What version of Preview?

7.0

I don't recall a time it did work.

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#59732

On 2014-05-27 04:27:14 +0000, gtr said:

> On 2014-05-27 02:54:46 +0000, Alan Baker said:
> 
>> On 2014-05-26 21:29:04 +0000, gtr said:
>> 
>>> Studying Logic Pro docu, I want to find a string, such as "delay in ms" 
>>> in Preview. I can't find a way to indicate a string; quotes, single 
>>> ticks, colons.  It just searches willy-nilly for any/all of these 
>>> elements, and will even find "ms" as the conclusion of the word 
>>> probleMS.
>>> 
>>> Is there any way to do a string search in Preview?
>>> 
>>> Failing that, any convenient way to do string searches in a program 
>>> that will load pdf's?
>>> 
>>> I find I can load the entire 1300 page document into Safari and a 
>>> handy-dandy version of Adobe will search for strings. It's pretty slow, 
>>> and refuses to let me print individual pdf pages from within it and 
>>> other Adobe-style headlocks.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Double quotes work for me.
>> 
>> What version of Preview?
> 
> 7.0
> 
> I don't recall a time it did work.

Then you've got something else going on, because it's always worked that way.

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#59737

On 2014-05-27 04:49:11 +0000, Alan Baker said:

> On 2014-05-27 04:27:14 +0000, gtr said:
> 
>> On 2014-05-27 02:54:46 +0000, Alan Baker said:
>> 
>>> On 2014-05-26 21:29:04 +0000, gtr said:
>>> 
>>>> Studying Logic Pro docu, I want to find a string, such as "delay in ms" 
>>>> in Preview. I can't find a way to indicate a string; quotes, single 
>>>> ticks, colons.  It just searches willy-nilly for any/all of these 
>>>> elements, and will even find "ms" as the conclusion of the word 
>>>> probleMS.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there any way to do a string search in Preview?
>>>> 
>>>> Failing that, any convenient way to do string searches in a program 
>>>> that will load pdf's?
>>>> 
>>>> I find I can load the entire 1300 page document into Safari and a 
>>>> handy-dandy version of Adobe will search for strings. It's pretty slow, 
>>>> and refuses to let me print individual pdf pages from within it and 
>>>> other Adobe-style headlocks.
>>>> 
>>>> Any ideas?
>>> 
>>> Double quotes work for me.
>>> 
>>> What version of Preview?
>> 
>> 7.0
>> 
>> I don't recall a time it did work.
> 
> Then you've got something else going on, because it's always worked that way.

No one else has a problem with doing a string search in a pdf in 
Preview?  Anyone?  Anyone?

I wonder what "something else" could be going on that would make 
Preview behave that way.

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#59735

In message <2014052614290486476-xxx@yyyzzz> 
  gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> Studying Logic Pro docu, I want to find a string, such as "delay in ms" 
> in Preview. I can't find a way to indicate a string; quotes, single 
> ticks, colons.  It just searches willy-nilly for any/all of these 
> elements, and will even find "ms" as the conclusion of the word 
> probleMS.

> Is there any way to do a string search in Preview?

putting it in quotes works for me.

I searched for: reduce energy in a pdf and got 3 hits. I searched for
"reduce energy" and got one.

-- 
'What ho, b'zugda-hiara.' (Footnote: A killing insult in Dwarfish. It
means 'Lawn ornament'.)  --Wyrd Sisters

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#59738

On 2014-05-27 05:18:55 +0000, Lewis said:

> In message <2014052614290486476-xxx@yyyzzz>
>   gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>> Studying Logic Pro docu, I want to find a string, such as "delay in ms"
>> in Preview. I can't find a way to indicate a string; quotes, single
>> ticks, colons.  It just searches willy-nilly for any/all of these
>> elements, and will even find "ms" as the conclusion of the word
>> probleMS.
> 
>> Is there any way to do a string search in Preview?
> 
> putting it in quotes works for me.
> 
> I searched for: reduce energy in a pdf and got 3 hits. I searched for
> "reduce energy" and got one.

Very strange. It works for me now.  Thanks for whatever y'all did that 
made it begin working for the first time!

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#59739

In article <2014052700061764456-xxx@yyyzzz>, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2014-05-27 05:18:55 +0000, Lewis said:
> > In message <2014052614290486476-xxx@yyyzzz>
> >   gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> >> Studying Logic Pro docu, I want to find a string, such as "delay in ms"
> >> in Preview. I can't find a way to indicate a string; quotes, single
> >> ticks, colons.  It just searches willy-nilly for any/all of these
> >> elements, and will even find "ms" as the conclusion of the word
> >> probleMS.
> > 
> >> Is there any way to do a string search in Preview?
> > 
> > putting it in quotes works for me.
> > 
> > I searched for: reduce energy in a pdf and got 3 hits. I searched for
> > "reduce energy" and got one.
> 
> Very strange. It works for me now.  Thanks for whatever y'all did that 
> made it begin working for the first time!

No problem ... the spyware we installed on your computer will
automatically forward $50 from your bank account to each of us here. 
;-)


For the gullible or humour-impaired: The winking smiley means that's
just a JOKE!

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#59752

In article <270520141917467559%YourName@YourISP.com>, Your Name
<YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

> No problem ... the spyware we installed on your computer will
> automatically forward $50 from your bank account to each of us here. 
> ;-)
> 
> 
> For the gullible or humour-impaired: The winking smiley means that's
> just a JOKE!

Damn!  I was counting on that money.

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