To some extent, you can get this with the Search PDF feature.

Christiaan

> On 25 Mar 2023, at 22:54, Thomas Schneider via Skim-app-users 
> <skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> Christiaan:
> 
> The search function that Skim provides is better than most since it
> shows the new location in a bright yellow box before subsiding to a
> blue highlight.
> 
> The Firefox browser has a fabulous search match display method.  When
> one does command-F a box shows up in the lower left.  I turn on
> 'Highlight All'.  When a search is done by entering a term, it says,
> for example, '1 of 14 matches'.  Then the term gets a highlight in
> blue and others that are not on are magenta.  As one moves through the
> matches (using up and down arrows), the current one is always blue and
> the others are magenta.  This keeps one oriented.  There is also a
> strip on the side that shows magenta lines corresponding to all hits
> in the entire document and a grey oval that shows the currently
> displayed page.  This allows one to be completely oriented as to the
> locations of the matches in the document.
> 
> It would be great if the highlighting (and maybe the strip) were in
> Skim!
> 
> Thanks for all your great work.
> 
> Tom
> 
>  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
>  Senior Investigator
>  National Institutes of Health
>  National Cancer Institute
>  Center for Cancer Research
>  RNA Biology Laboratory
>  Biological Information Theory Group
>  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
>  schne...@mail.nih.gov
>  alum.mit.edu/www/toms
>  https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms
> 



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