As many of you screw by now , I have some issues with the way glare “ version 1.0 ” works . A late hint on macosxhints.com reminded me of yet another quirkiness in Spotlight ; one that I did n’t even observe in the original write - up .
usurp you ’re look for a PDF with a sure phrase in it — for example , recently I looked for a history I wrote last yr that talk about Unix maintenance scripts . When Spotlight finds your document , you’re able to open it in the default PDF watcher by simply clicking on the papers ’s name in Spotlight ’s upshot inclination . On my Mac , Preview is my default PDF viewer , as it open more apace than Adobe Acrobat Reader or the Acrobat Professional .
get across your outcome and the document opens in Preview with your hunt term highlighted , which is quite useful . ( observe that you ’ll only see the highlight if your accurate phrase exists in the dead body of the document , or if you explore for only one word — glare wo n’t highlight equal otherwise . ) But here ’s the annoying part — unfortunately , Preview is coiffe to a ridiculously mellow level of zoom around your highlighted full term . Sure , you may see see the matched search terms very well , but not a whole lot else . For instance , here ’s the default view of the PDF I found with my hunting terms above :
Holy zoom , Batman ! reckon at that magnification ! While I appreciate Apple ’s desire to show me that Spotlight has , in fact , matched my search terms , this is a turn much . The zoom level is so gamy that there ’s not a ton of context — the document has scroll slightly to the right wing ( “ REVENT ” instead of “ PREVENT ” ) , I ca n’t even see the full width of the text block , nor can I see how this block relates to the sleep of the document .
First , ensure Preview is n’t running ; the change you ’re go to make wo n’t puzzle if it is . Next , go to the Applications : usefulness folder , and duple - click Terminal . When it found , copy and paste the pursuit , and press Return when done :
What you ’ve just done is modify the value of the zoom - manipulate keystone from28to10 , or 100 percent ( actual size ) . You wo n’t see any output in the Terminal , other than another prompt line appearing , but do n’t worry — something ’s vary . To prove it , just open up up another PDF via spot and take a look at the solvent . Here ’s what I see for the same search as before , but with the zoom at 100 % ( keep in head these images have been reduced for exhibit here ; it was easily clear at actual sizing on my projection screen ):
Now I can not only see my highlighted school text , I can see where it lies in recounting to the relaxation of the page . I can also get a better sense of exactly which text file I ’m look at , since I can see the full page .
If 100 percent is too small for your eyes , you may use ( almost ) whatever value you ’d like . Just remember to quit Preview first , and remember that you introduce a denary , not a percent . For example , to set the zoom to 125 percent , you ’d habituate a note value of12.5 ; for 150 per centum , it would be15 . Unfortunately , it does n’t seem possible to set the zoom below 100 per centum ; any values below 10 in the preferences single file result in a zoom storey lay to 100 percent . To put things back to the default , set up the value to28 .
With this round-eyed change , I ’m now much happier with glare - open PDFs — I can study what I found , and see the particular ’s context relative to the remainder of the written document .
