Why doesn’t the find feature in Scrivener work with PDF documents.
Daniel
Find most certainly does work in PDF documents, I don’t know what you mean. What problems are you having, exactly? The Find panel will happily locate words in PDF documents. The search feature will also find PDF documents with your search term in them. (The only thing that doesn’t happen in PDF documents is that your search term does not get highlighted when you do a project search - but you can do a search then use the Find panel to locate individual terms. This has been mentioned a lot on the forums so if that is what you mean you might want to search the forums. It might even be in the FAQ, I can’t remember.)
Best,
Keith
Keith,
Thanks for getting back to me. Now that I know that the search term does not get highlighted it makes sense. But what a pain! I have to scroll through pages and pages of one PDF document to find the term… I guess the best way around this is to turn the PDF in to a text document.
Thanks,
D.
As Keith says, when you’ve found the document through “Search”, use “Find” to pick up the term within the document. That said, turning the PDF into a text document always sounds like a good idea to me, unless preserving the original layout is important.
Mark
Yes, exactly - you don’t need to scroll through manually at all. Once you’ve done your search, click into the PDF document and hit cmd-F to open the Find panel. The Find panel will have your search term loaded into it (at least it does in the new betas and 1.1, I can’t remember if it does for the current release version) and you can use that to find individual occurrences within the PDF document. I would do this even in a text document, where search terms are highlighted, as it is quicker than scrolling through looking for highlights anyway.
Best,
Keith
Got it! Thanks - those tips really helped.
Daniel