Preview search

How can I get Preview to only initiate a search after I have fully typed in the word or phrase. It immediately jumps into a search when I have not fully typed in the word I am searching on. This bogs down the search and stalls my ability to type the phrase into the search box.
Thanx All for your assistance!

Preview? I think you mean Spotlight ...
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Preview Searching Bug

Anyone else noticed that Preview search is broken?
I just loaded a PDF file and searched for a friend's name (it's an old computer club newsletter). It found the instances of his name, and hitting command-g would cycle through them.
I then searched for another term and Previous found the first occurrence.
However, when I hit command-g to cycle through them, it went back to finding instances of the first search instead of what I was currently looking for, while displaying the new term in the search entry.
In fact, I was not able to get Preview to search for other words in that document without closing it and opening the file again.
Seems to happen on other files as well.
I'm going to file a bug report, but I'm curious if anyone else has noticed this.

Same sort of weirdness -- not sure if its the same bug -- here.
Yes, the Preview search capabilities certainly look busted in 10.5.1.
When this crops up, the only way I can search through all the hits shown is by selecting each individually with the pointer. And they don't highlight in the sidebar. With the sidebar selected, I can't successfully select the next match in the sidebar. It loops within the section, and nothing shown in the main window gets highlighted in the sidebar. (This is severely weird search navigation, yes.)
If I quit Preview and relaunch when I get stuck in this particular morass, it appears to clear the problem. At least, I just tried that and it seemed to clear it.
Also when this case cropped up, I noticed these over in the console window:
12/21/07 11:33:58 AM Preview{880} NSMapInsert: map table argument is NULL
Is there a bug number I can reference when I log this? I'm not sure if I'm seeing the same bug, or a cousin here, since I'm currently using the same search string for several searches.

How do I change the highlight in Preview "search" function?

I find Preview is a great app for reading PDF documents, I prefer it to Adobe Acrobat most of the time. It also has a useful and fast Search, but .... the highlighting of found Search items in the document is USELESS!!! It is pale grey, which - when most documents are black text on white background, and with a lot of text crammed on a page - is almost impossible to see!
I have tried Preview Preferences. I have tried System Preferences (but Preview, sadly, doesn't use SysPrefs highlight colour). How can I change the Preview highlight colour so that Search becomes a useful function instead of causing me eyestrain?

Thank you for the quick reply, however, if I understand correctly your link is helpful for Character Fill Color, not highlights.
Please find the quote below in this link:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH15379?viewlocale=en_US
"Note: Text that you highlight by adding a color behind it (in the Format inspector) isn’t tracked in the review toolbar."

Why can't Preview search in a foreign language?

I have a long .pdf document in Russian but find, as in the past, that words placed in Preview's search bar always get no hits.
If Preview can display a text in a foreign language, why can't it search for words in that language?

Try Adobe Reader instead of Preview.
The basic problem is that the pdf format is not reliable for searching, and sometimes even copy/pasting non-Latin text. Depending on how it is produced, the internal representation of the text can easily become useless garbage.

Preview search and auto-scroll

I'm not sure if this is a new bug/feature in Preview since OS X 10.4.5. It's a little bit tricky.
1. Open a PDF file where some pages have a different shape than others. (in my example the cover page was landscape and the rest of the document was portrait.)
2. Search for some text.
3. The draw on the side of the window shows the page numbers. Very cool.
4. Every time you click one, the located text appears in the centre of the screen. Even if the zoom scale fitted the complete width of the document.ANNOYING!
Is it possible that Preview can check the dimensions of the page containing the found words rather than the lowest-common-denominator / greatest-possible-dimensions for the document when scrolling the located text?? Please???

http://www.google.com do a search.

Grouping words in preview search function for PDFs

Hi there,
I'm looking to see if anyone can help me with the search function in preview. I would like to change the search function so that I can search an entire phrase rather than the individual words. For example, when I read business reports I might want to jump straight to the income statement, so I enter "income statement" in the search box. But instead of searching for the phrase "income statement", it shows all results for both "income" and "statement", giving me about 500 matches. Is there a way I can change this so that when I search for a phrase it only shows results for the entire phrase and not each word? Thanks.
Regards,
Saiyaman

Ah, perfect! I've just tried it now and it works very well. Never knew I could do that. It helped me a lot, thank you very much!

Preview Search Highlight Color

Hi!
Is there anyway to change the color used to for searched items on Preview? I noticed that you can change the background panel to just about any color using the color picker, but not the highlight color which I think would be far more useful. It is gray--not even my selected color for highlighting in the Appearance Preference. Most of the PDF files that I search have a grayscale background and the gray highlight does not show up. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

yes, it's ridiculous. But your highlight color IS there, it's just that the highlighted word is not in focus at that moment.
Open a text-based PDF. Command-F and type in a term that you know is in the PDF. As you note, it will highlight, but appear to be in gray.
Now hit Tab...once or twice, depending on whether you have the toolbar at the top of the PDF page opened. If it is opened, Tab will initially take you to the "Page number" text box. A second "Tab" will then place the focus on your page. You'll then notice that the word is highlighted with your preferred color.
Unfortunately, as soon as you click on another search occurrence in the "drawer", the focus then shifts to the drawer, and your highlighted terms turn gray again.
Very frustrating and un-apple-like.

Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview - Search Options?

I am running a 64bit version of the Enterprise Technical Preview.
When clicking on the new Search button, a sidebar with "Trending Now" appears. Is there any way to turn this off? Having pictures of Justin Bieber and the latest California murder news isn't really appropriate for a business environment.
TIA!

In the search box type Search Settings, click on the Search Settings icon when it appears, then under Metered Connections move both sliders to the left (off).
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Preview search doesn't work for all ASCII characters

The title pretty much says it all. The behavior is completely broken. Any searches for words that contain a non-letter, non-number ASCII, non-standard punctuation character, e.g., @#$%^&*()+, kind of ignores the special characters. For example:
Find: C++
Finds all pages with the text "C++", but doesn't highlight that text. Instead, it highlights all "C" and "c" characters, and the find counts for those pages are the number of C characters. Note that it neither highlights nor counts C characters on pages that don't contain "C++"
Find: "C++"
Finds about half the pages and the find count is correct, but it highlights only C characters that are followed by ++ OR other special characters, e.g. it highlights the C in "C#".

mentalwasteland wrote:
I simply want it to work as the documentation says it works.
By all means tell Apple it does not perform according to their documentation when you ask them to fix it.
Does Adobe Reader do any better? I don't know if it might have its own search system....

How do I change Preview search settings to only search once I hit enter?

Any ideas?
Or to increase the delay so that I can finish typing the search before it attempt the scan.. For large PDF documents instant search just isn't practical.

Any ideas?
Or to increase the delay so that I can finish typing the search before it attempt the scan.. For large PDF documents instant search just isn't practical.

Previews missing at catalog and drive level. Unable to use filters at this level. Missing folders.

Using LR4 (not 4.1) and Win7 Home Premium.
Catalog had been upgraded from LR3 and LR4 catalog was working fine until now. I've been using LR since the begining.
Two problems, probably related. 106K photos over two drives, almost 3Tb.
At the catalog level, there are no previews. Normally previews of all 106K photos would be displayed. Message is "Click the "import" button to begin." Filter function does not work Message: "No photos match the filter"
At the drive level, there are no previews. Message is "No photos in selected folder" Filter function does not work Message: "No photos match the filter"
At the folder level, everything is fine, except two folders give the same message "No photos in selected folder" Filter function does not work in these two folders: Message: "No photos match the filter" 14K photos between the two bad folders
Dozens, hundreds, of other folders and subfolders are fine. Filter function works fine at folder and subfolder level.
Collections are fine, including photos in the two folders giving the mesage "No photos in selected folder"
What I've done:
uninstalled and reinstalled LR4 twice.
Downloaded and installed clean LR4.
Same problems
Tried to import the missing folders. Won't import because they're already in the catalog. Won't import even if I uncheck "Don't import suspected duplicates"
Exported as a catalog one of the "No photos in selected folder" folders. It appeared to create a viable catalog with previews, search filters, etc. I edited a few photos with no problems. Although it did give a message saying several hundred previews were missing. But they seem to be there anyway.
Deleted the folder from the catalog and imported from catalog the working folder catalog that I just created.
Same problems.
Exported as a catalog the other "No photos in selected folder" folder. Same result as the first bad folder. I.e. It appeared to create a viable catalog with previews, search filters, etc. Although it did give a message saying several hundred previews were missing. But they seem to be there anyway.
Haven't done anything with this second folder catalog. Intriguing, the same message about missing previews.
The actual files and *.xmp files are in the bad folders.
Now what?

Discovered a thread in this forum. Known problem solved by 4.1 beta. Upgraded to LR4.1 and problem solved.

Search Requires an Extra Space for Foreign Language

I have a field in the index that has both english and far east characters. When I do a search, I append the * suffix operator. I have no problem getting results for "whic*" - it brings returns back docs starting with these characters;
however, whenever I search for foreign characters, I have to append a space before * in order to get back results.
I am using the 2014-10-20-Preview api version. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

Hi Janusz,
I ran these in fiddler, you just need to substitute <your search svc>. I pulled out some random article title/source from the google and china news sites.
**** NOTE ***
I also found a bug with a GET that didn't honor the + operator, see example at the end. I don't know if it's something I didn't setup correctly.
/* setup index */
POST
https://<your search svc>.search.windows.net/indexes?api-version=2014-10-20-preview
{"name": "testindex",
"fields": [
{"name": "ID", "type": "Edm.String", "key":true, "filterable": false, "sortable": false, "facetable": false, "searchable": false},
{"name": "Title", "type": "Edm.String", "filterable": true, "sortable": false, "facetable": false, "suggestions": false, "searchable": true},
{"name": "Source", "type": "Edm.String", "filterable": true, "sortable": false, "facetable": false, "suggestions": false, "searchable": true}
/* add docs */
POST
https://<your search svc>.search.windows.net/indexes/testindex/docs/index?api-version=2014-10-20-preview
"value":
{"ID":"20019","Title":"Airbag recall 2015: What consumers need to know","Source":"OregonLive.com"},
{"ID":"20020","Title":"The Pirate Bay clambers back online after cop raid sunk site for 7 weeks","Source":"The Register"},
{"ID":"20021","Title":"Super Bowl blitz: T-Mobile, Sprint aim to hit hard with buzzy ads","Source":"CNet"},
{"ID":"20022","Title":"China tightens grip on the Internet, but it didn't block all the tools to get around","Source":"Mashable"},
{"ID":"30022","Title":"Google Now updated with support for third-party apps on Android","Source":"Mashable"},
{"ID":"30023","Title":"中国患者在韩医院整形突陷脑死亡","Source":"中国青年网"},
{"ID":"30024","Title":"美华裔青少年：我是“ABC”，我想学普通话(图)","Source":"中国青年网"}
/* search "with*", returns 2 docs */
GET
https://<your search svc>.search.windows.net/indexes/testindex/docs?$count=true&Search=with*&api-version=2014-10-20-Preview
/* search "中国*", no docs */
GET
https://<your search svc>.search.windows.net/indexes/testindex/docs?$count=true&Search=中国*&api-version=2014-10-20-Preview
/* search "中国%20*", gets 2 rows with the space */
GET
https://<your search svc>.search.windows.net/indexes/testindex/docs?$count=true&Search=中国%20*&api-version=2014-10-20-Preview
*** BUG??? ***
/* search "with+buzz*", should return 1 but instead, it's not honoring the + operator */
GET
https://<your search svc>.search.windows.net/indexes/testindex/docs?$count=true&Search=with+buzz*&api-version=2014-10-20-Preview

MacBook Pro Retina 13' HDMI Problem

Hi all,
Two weeks ago I discovered a problem with the HDMI output on my external monitor (LG IPS 234) when connected to a MacBook Pro Retina 13'. The monitor wasn't able to display greyscale information. E.g. the underlying greyscales of a Google preview search suggestion when hovering a mouse over the suggestions. Also the whole monitor display looked washed out and fuzzy. I thought it would be a problem with the monitor, so I hauled it back to the store. We checked the monitor with a MBPR 15' and everything was fine (screens not in sync - important see below). I started thinking the new 13' MBPR might be the issue. But before leaving the store and blaming my MBPR 13' we checked out another 13' MBPR and (supprise!) the same effect again. To double check we tried another external monitor from Samsung (ok, I know if Samsung is not working with an Apple MBPR...). But seriously... The same effect again.
I contacted the Apple support and after discussing this with the 1st level (with little helpful tips ... SMB reset etc.) I was forwarded to the 2nd level. The guy wasn't able to help me either. He blamed my monitor and that it might need a firmware update. The problem could be linked with some incompatible HDCP. But a firmware update can only be done by the monitor vendor or a service partner and LG doesn't even indicate that this is possible at all.
Now my question is, does anybody else experience problems with external IPS displays and the MBPR 13'?
As I said, we tested it with 2 different MBPR 13' and 2 monitors from different vendors. In each combination the same problem. Always the same effect. For me this is an indication that there might be a bigger problem under the surface.
Kird
PS: a friend with a MPBR 15' has the same effect but only when the internal and the external IPS monitor is in sync
PS: the Apple 2nd level support promised me to give me a call regarding further steps to solve the problem (with a fixed date on Monday this week) ... They never called... Poor service Apple!

Hello Daniel,
I gave Apple a call last week and asked for a feedback on my ticket. The guy I talked to at least tried to help me with the issue. In the meantime since my last attempt to receive something from Apple nothing has happened on the issue. Surprise! So we started from 0 again... Ok... Bought in customer with a decent pain level...
I received some test tools from the guy that I ran on the MPPR creating an encrypted file (...yes I can imagine what you think and I can assure you I had similar thoughts...) and mailed this stuff back to Apple. Now that they have insight of my whole digital live (ok I distend it a bit, but in reply to my question what's all included in this file the guy mentioned something like "don't worry only technical stuff..." Ah yea... That's why it is encrypted... You might find an info about a malfunction in the HDMI inside... very confident... Ok... What you all do for a chance of solving an HDMI problem).
So the current status is: Apple engineers are spending nights in the office to dig into whatever this tools squeezed out of my innocent MacBook. You see I have reached a state where I am slowly drifting into sarcasm ;-)
The guy mentioned there might ! be a patch coming with the next release if Apple finds the issue important enough ! and ! enough other customers have the problem as well. And on this I am not kidding. That's what he said.
Hmm... Will 3 customers be enough? I doubt it... We'll find out with the next release. Maybe we can increase the complains from release to release and empirically estimate when Apple starts taking customers seriously.
My personal guess is that they will dismount the HDMI port and send us an aluminum plug that fits perfectly in the hole. I have a flashback... There was once an issue with an antenna and they offered a piece of plastic to...
I am getting carried away so I better stop now :-) and return to my wine
Let's stay in touch if you find out something on the GB
Kird

Enhancement requests do seem to be worthwhile in the end...

Having requested the continuous/shuffle music video playback several times in the last 18 months or so, and urged people to do so via...
http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html
...it has finally been implemented and I'm chuffed to bits.
Well done Apple, this is a superb enhancement though why so long to implement ?
Personally I feel this was a huge oversight for AppleTV ever since it was realeased, and seriously hindered both use of AppleTV as a media extender and obviated the point of buying music videos unless you watch them on portable devices which I don't.
I had become increasingly negative about the prospect of ever seeing this feature
appear - this cat doesn't wear a hat so I'll have to eat something else instead!
I am now likely to spend a fair amount on music videos at iTunes Store having vowed not to do so again as having to select each one manually to play was tedious to say the least.
Really baffles me how Apple have missed the opportunity for revenue from music video sales via AppleTV, particularly when iPods had the shuffle feature.
As I commented a few weeks ago I think perhaps priorities since 2.0 update have been to get the store up and running properly before implementing enhancement requests or new features.
Very pleased Apple have finally implemented this extremely useful feature, it may not be pointless in using the link above, it just takes time.
So the next thing we should do is think of things to officially lobby for in future updates.
My top 3 would be:
1 - Allowing connection via USB to rescue data from AppleTV for users who've had hard drive accidents/msihaps and haven't backed up recently - fact of life it happens even if you're careful! Files with DRM are safe from unauthorised use and those without DRM are no less secure than they were before anyway. This could even be done by only allowing AppleTV to dump media to an external USB device instead of allowing an external connection to AppleTV itself, and could be controlled from say a backup menu option. Alternatively full manual bidirectional drag and drop of media via iTunes to/from AppleTV could be implemented with a mode to prevent a new sync library connection wiping existing content.
What's in it for Apple? Huge boost in consumer confidence that Apple allow them to easily recover their personal files in the event of a problem - there should be no need to hack or dismantle AppleTV just to get at your data. Just think of all those people saying thank heaven I had an appleTV as my Macbook died and I'd forgotten to backup those wedding photos etc. We see examples of frustrated users almost daily with this problem.
2 - Additional codec support - it's all very well saying h264 is the best thing since sliced bread and the current Apple/Apple Store standard, but the limited video codec support is probably the biggest hindrance to AppleTV becoming an extremely popular media device. It has the slickest interface of commercial products but many prospective customers have files in long established older formats that are incompatible without prior time consuming and quality degrading transcoding. Locking down AppleTV in this way alienates many potential users. The argument about the source of files in other formats may have some validity, but it is not Apple's job to infer that a user's file is of dubious origin simply for not being in h264 format. I am not condoning filesharing/torrents etc merely saying that most people have older files in older formats they want to use without conversion. Many DVD players allow playback of DivX (never use it myself), and if there's a licensing issue offer playback as a per device plugin option paid for by the user in the same way the QT MPEG2 pluging is offered.
What's in it for Apple? Happy customers who would simply use something else like a PS3 to view their files and not buy AppleTV. New customers who would not have purchased otherwise. Happy customers who no longer need to trasncode files to watch. You'd be happy with being able to use older files, but would also get the benefit of using iTunes Store for new things.
The overhwelming thing would be a sense of 'fair play' gained by the consumer. For me personally since 2.0+ the device's overwhelming iTunes Store based menu design sticks in the craw and has relegated MY content to the bottom of menus. Give us the best of both worlds - an iTunes Store top level section for purchases and separate simple top level sections for combined personal/purchased media as in software 1.0/1.1. In essence declutter the menu system for playback lumping all the purchasing/preview/search options together.
3 - Tricky. Most useful would be an AppleTV SDK and 3rd party plugins/apps via iTunes paid and/or free similar to the iPhone model - I can live without widgets/visualisers/social networking plugins etc but they would be valuable to many users. As far as I know the iPhone Apps have been a huge success - no reason why not on AppleTV too, though commiting to this pathway would probably be very expensive in terms of developing a secure/sandboxed environment for running apps/plugins unless they could port the iPhone software fairly simply.
Anyhow, once again delighted Apple have added the music video feature - I will start buying music videos from iTunes music store again. Bad for my wallet but good for Apple and AppleTV. Perhaps I should be thankful and consider how much I've saved not buying music videos in the last 18 months or so.....
What would you like to see? Some things will be impossible/hardware limited, others quite feasible.
Discuss, but also use the formal feedback link to give enhancements any chance to appear!
Let's all help make AppleTV a success, and hopefully the media extender to beat!
AC
typos - Message was edited by: Alley_Cat

Chenks wrote:
to be honest, adding playlists (or whatever it is) for just music videos is of no use to me.
it is playlists for tv shows that i need. ie the capability of playing episode 1 to 5 of a particular season back to back.
Funny isn't it, how we all do things differently, have different preferences, enhancement wishes etc.
For me it's not really a big chore to watch an episode then to manually start the next assuming I or Mrs AC are still awake!
For episodes of short duration say 5-15 minutes I appreciate this could get annoying, and for longer episodes I suppose we are used to Play All type options on DVDs.
If these are iTunes TV Shows you're stuck at the moment, but if they're say 'home recordings converted for AppleTV' you could theoretically get round it by setting their types to Music Video. Clumsy but it should work.
I'm sure you can see the benefit of playlists/shuffling for music videos that may be 3-4 minutes each on average. I rediscovered dozens of iTunes Store music video purchases last night and thought 'yes, this is one of the big reasons why I bought AppleTV initially' - it did not say anywhere that AppleTV could not do this somewhat logical task - assumptions are dangerous though and invariably you only find out the full capabilities of products when using them.
additional codec support ? i would say there is no chance of this. x264 is pretty standard theses days (if you discount the pirate industry). x264 is even used for HD TV in the UK.
I agree, there's more chance of Tony Blair making a comeback!
Piracy is rife and I do not support it.
My views on fair use of media you personally own are quite different.
It's not the codec/container that's the issue it's how the material was acquired in the first place - it may simply be your home videos, digitised off-air recordings etc that is in a 'legacy' format that you don't want to transcode. We know from the modders that most other SD formats are playable on the current hardware so that's not the issue.
Take say an Elgato EyeTV device - I can record anything off-air, edit and transcode for AppleTV or just transcode unedited automatically. How much more sensible it woudl be if AppleTv simply supported the MPEG-2 transport stream playback rather than wasting time and computing/power resources doing the transcode.
I have some some standard video-CDs I made on a PC in the late 1990's, how nice it would be to be able to play the MPEG-1 content back without fiddling - it's not as though converting to h264 will do anything for the quality!
AC

How to Start and Stop the SAP System

Hi,
I have installed "Sneak Preview"; Searched for start and stop scripts but there are more than one script which has named start.bat and stop.bat. Moreover, I searched the documents which comes with Sneak Preview but could find useful instruction there either.
Question: Could you please point me to the documentation where it explains the starting and stopping SAP, for Sneak Preview?
Thanks in advance
Jawad Kakar

Please help me by showing action plan for stop sap , offline backup and then start sap.
i am little bit confuse How to start and stop SAP on cluster for offline backup
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