Freeway 4 Reference PDF = No Search?

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Hello,

While patiently waiting for the version 5 reference I decided to read one on version 4 (downloaded from the Softpress site).

No matter what string I search on (in both Preview and Acrobat) I get no matches. Even searching for the word “the” turns up nothing. Is my copy somehow corrupt or does everyone else see this behavior?

-ss

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Hi ss,

The PDF should be fully searchable using Preview or Acrobat and I have
no problems with it here. Anyone else getting problems?

Joe

On 18 May 2008, at 16:43, Solutions Etcetera wrote:

Hello,

While patiently waiting for the version 5 reference I decided to
read one on version 4 (downloaded from the Softpress site).

No matter what string I search on (in both Preview and Acrobat) I
get no matches. Even searching for the word “the” turns up nothing.
Is my copy somehow corrupt or does everyone else see this behavior?

-ss

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Hmm… file nust be corrupt. I copied to a G4 laptop and same results (it initially indexes) but nothing is ever found.

I have downloaded another copy from the Softpress site via Safari’s “download liked file” item in the context menu and it is fine.

I have to say that the initial download opened in Safari, and I did an “Open in Preview” from the context menu, and then a “Save As…” from preview to save it into my Documentation folder with a more meaningful name. This has been SOP for PDFs for a long time and I don’t recall ever seeing this search issue.

Weird… but I am good to go now.

-ss

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Sometime around 19/5/08 (at 09:38 -0400) Solutions Etcetera said:

I have to say that the initial download opened
in Safari, and I did an “Open in Preview” from
the context menu, and then a “Save AsŠ” from
preview

Yep - standard practise as you say; that’s one of
the normal ways I save PDFs as well. (Although I
normally prefer not to see 'em in a browser in
the first place as loading seems so much more
sluggish than viewing regular web pages.)

k

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