I also suggest you switch to Skim - this problem will go away and you'll get other benefits as well.
I've especially enjoyed Bibdesk's display of notes I added to a PDF in Skim recently. Very useful. -mike On 10/5/07, Adam R. Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday, October 05, 2007, at 12:10PM, "Chris Goedde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >On Oct 5, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > > >> Could it be that you've enterded something in the search field? We > >> pass the search string for opening the PDF, and IIRC Preview then > >> zooms in on the result. > > > >Ah, that's it. > > > >I have to say I have decidedly mixed feelings about this feature. > >Here's the problem. Let's say I want to view a paper by a particular > >author, so I search on the author's name. That nicely identifies all > >the papers by that author. I now have a dilemma: if I immediately > >double click the pdf icon, the paper will open in preview, but zoomed > >into the author's name, which I don't want. However, if I cancel the > >search so that preview will open the paper the way I want it, I lose > >the filtering I'm using to find the paper in the first place. > > It has never been passed for searches on author/title; just any field or file > content. Due to other user complaints, we now pass it only for file content > searches. Most complaints are really about the Preview problem; its zoom > behavior when you open a file as a result of a Spotlight search just sucks. > See here > > <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051114175158162> for > disabling that. Or use Skim. > > >I wonder, does anyone actually use this feature? If so, how? > > Yes, I use it. Apple recommends its usage as well. > > -- > adam > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > -- Michael McCracken UCSD CSE PhD Candidate research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/ misc: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
