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?

 

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...

 

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.

 

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.

 

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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