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mfaughn

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May 24, 2012
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I am a developer and a fairly new Mac user. I am trying to search a pdf and have discovered some problems that might have solutions.

  1. Whitespace after a search term is ignored. Typing "Vert " will match "Verticle"…which is infuriating, stupid, and incongruous with many (probably most) other search functionalities.
  2. The search can't handle backslashes. It ignores them and you can't escape them in the normal way (i.e. by using a backslash). grrrr. I'm searching the comprehensive list of LaTeX symbol encodings so the document has just a few (thousand) very important backslashes.
If anyone can assist me in getting Preview to be more useful I'd appreciate it.
 
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