Re: [Bibdesk-users] search and display with preview

[Adam M. <ama...@ma...>]

 
On Wednesday, May 31, 2006, at 01:02PM, Gernot Maier <ger...@we...> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I would like to know how I can switch off the propagation of a search 
>term from Bibdesk to preview.
>
>Example:
>
>- I search for author 'Smith' in my bibliography.
>- I found it and want to read the pdf file with preview
>- preview opens the pdf and starts immediately a search for 'Smith' and 
>zooms onto the first hit.
>But usually I want to start to read the document on its first page.
>
>Is this a preview or a bibdesk feature? How to switch it off?

This is a BibDesk feature, but it only happens if you're searching based on "All fields" or "Keywords," and is consistent with Apple's Spotlight guidelines.  To work around the annoying zoom mis-feature in Preview, see <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051114175158162>.

-- Adam