When Spotlight finds something in a PDF

[Tim Collins]

Hi,

I don't know the requisite information to properly add a "secret," so I hope that someone with higher knowledge will read this and share it with the Secrets community.

I found the idea here:

"The new Spotlight feature in Tiger does a great job at searching the contents of PDF files. Clicking on the result will open the file in Preview, starting at the first reference. However, the default zoom is so large that the context containing the reference is lost without manually zooming out."

The default zoom factor is 28x.  Further down the page, someone else submitted the Terminal command:

defaults write com.apple.Preview Preview -dict-add PVPDFSpotlightSelectionSize 1

Now a PDF is opened at "fit to window" scale.  I hope this is helpful.  Thanks!

Yours,

Tim.