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Re: String Search in Preview

From Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: String Search in Preview
Date 2014-05-26 19:54 -0700
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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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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

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