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.

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About the best(?) I could find in Leopard 10.5.8 Preview application, was a way of
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Tiger is not among them in the rendition of Preview given us in Leopard.
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depending on what you're looking to find.
One or more of the comments about this freeware app said they found Search in
Preview lacking after they upgraded to Leopard, compared to Tiger's Preview. And
Find, within Preview is also somewhat limited.
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Leopard 10.5(.8) is well past the development stage, fixes to this kind of problem are
unlikely to occur. You could try to Contact Apple (in web site) and suggest a bug-fix.
Apparently this has been a known issue, for those who sought to keep using it thus.
Since I hadn't been using the Preview's built-in search, in either OS X, it's my loss.
There probably are other user forum questions about this matter elsewhere online.
However involved the idea to 'assign keyboards to images and PDF documents' may
be, the Preview Help suggestion has a few words to say about. + I'm not impressed.
Sorry to not have a definitive answer or a fix to this issue.
Good luck & happy computing!

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

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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:
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Bryan, a little off topic, but here is a suggestion.
Thanks. I had all that, but someone high and mighty at Apple took away my ability to change my preferences.
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<catalog xmlns="http://www.xdk11g.com/xpath/defaultNamespace">
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<title>Instant ODP.NET Deployment</title>
<author>Mark A. Williams</author>
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<journal date="March-April 2008">
<article section="TECHNOLOGY">
<title>Oracle Database 11g Redux</title>
<author>Tom Kyte</author>
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Prefix:
URI: http://www.xdk11g.com/xpath/defaultNamespace
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/catalog/journal
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Another preview related bug???

Recently I reported an issue (bug) with preview and
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http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=65&catid=449&threadid =1364202&enterthread=y
I have another issue with preview:
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header/footer that are set in template)
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template
- Apply this modification to this topic only"
Again, I never touched header/footer.
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Herman

> See if this helps. Suggests turning off auto update.
This doesn't help because a preview updates the date
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the updated date isn't saved . With edits, save dialog comes up and
additionally header/footer dialog because date in footer has
changed.
See also my earlier post here:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=65&catid=449&threadid =1364202&enterthread=y
Secondly, I really need it on auto because I'm running
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I think that we need an option like Colum McAndrew described
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Herman

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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.
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yes, it's ridiculous. But your highlight color IS there, it's just that the highlighted word is not in focus at that moment.
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