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?

 

In article <2014052614290486476-xxx@yyyzzz>, gtr <> 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,
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***

 

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

> In article <2014052614290486476-xxx@yyyzzz>, gtr <> 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...

 

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?

 

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.

 

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.

 

In message <2014052614290486476-xxx@yyyzzz>
gtr <> 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.

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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.

 

In article <2014052700061764456-xxx@yyyzzz>, gtr <> wrote:
> On 2014-05-27 05:18:55 +0000, Lewis said:
> > In message <2014052614290486476-xxx@yyyzzz>
> > gtr <> 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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