On Fri, 31 May 2013 14:53:31 +0200 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > > > > OK, the situation with the Mac is very strange. > > Today (an odd day), we can search for *some* text, but not all words are > > found. > > It does not have to do with special characters or formatting. Simple words. > > And the result in the "finder" does not always correspond to that of > > "preview". > > What exactly do you mean with search in finder? Searching for all > documents on your computer containing a specific word? I am not a Mac user so I do not know all of the proper "App" jargon. I mean exactly opening the "finder" (file manager for normal people) and searching for all documents containing a specific word. (The word was "scarce" and "scarcity", not too frequent in his files... Ha, Ha!) > Do you also have problems searching for specific words in preview or > not (you said that results are different)? Yes, and it depends on the specific word and only in certain files (on certain days). I thus suspect a corrupted MacOS cache file... > I just remembered that sometimes (long ago) I had some kind of > "problems" due to some tiny kerning/boxes inserted into PDF between > characters to compensate for whatever (microtypography or just > "random" corrections to fix the second/third decimal of precision in > positioning). That sometimes confused readers which considered the > text to be two or three words when it was in fact one. But I don't > know if that is related. One can sometimes see that in google search > showing html version of a pdf document with seemingly randomly > distributed spaces. No, there is no problem using non-MacOS applications such as Adobe Reader. Indeed, it does not appear to be a PDF problem but a MacOS problem. As I am not interested in debugging the Mac, and I have now convinced myself that there is no problem with the ConTeXt produced PDF, I have told my colleague to be careful and *not* to rely on his search tool. Maybe it is just his Mac that is corrupt. (Could also be an underlying file system problem.) Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
