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#1106 Trouble with Search/Find on macOS Sierra GM
I'm running Skim 1.4.20 on Mac OS 10.12 Sierra GM Candidate, and I'm unable to Search PDF (left side panel just hangs, see screenshot), and Find only works for text that's within the screen view, not the whole document.
It's quite possibly a problem on my end, but I've been unable to solve it...
Search/Find works fine for adobe reader and preview
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Thanks I'll contact apple.
No the issue doesn't occur with preview or with adobe reader
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#1106Your description sounds really like a bug in PDFKit on Sierra. Certainly, it is behavior inconsistent with the documentation of PDFKit. This is something which we can do nothing about. You should report this to Apple. Do you see similar problems in Preview?
BTW, do you really mean "hang", i.e. Skim becomes non-responsive? Or do you just mean that the search does not finish?
If it really hangs, can you attach a sample (you can take this using Activity Monitor, see the Wiki) taken while it hangs.
I find it very strange if this works in Preview, because it should go through the same PDFKit methods.
I say “hang” only because it still says “Searching…” and the bottom right progress bar is empty. Not sure if that means it’s actually hanging, but attached a sample anyway.
The other mystery is that sometimes the “Find” command works but the page does move to the selection—you only see the highlighted occurrence if you scroll down to it..
-Dan
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#1106That means it does not hang, it just does not finish. It also means that while searching we don't get notfied about updated finds, which is a PDFKit bug.
And for find, if it does not scroll to the result, that is a bug in PDFKit as well, because we quite explicitly and very straightforwardly scroll to the selection using the straight forward scrollSelectionToVisible: method from PDFKit, which is responsible for doing that.
And there's nothong we can do about either.
Thanks for the info—very helpful.
I’ll reach out to Apple.
-Dan
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#1106Also, can you try to search in a PDF with more than 50 pages, for a search that should have at least some matches in the first 50 pages. Make sure you show the status bar. Does the progress bar fill up at least partially? And do some search results appear in the table?
Apart from trying the above, I have put a test version at http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/Skim.dmg perhaps you can try that out and see if that does something more?
Tried both, 50+ pages had no effect, but the test version got Find working!
(Still no luck with Search—see screenshot)
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#1106And also the progress indicator at the right of the status bar does not fill up?
Yup still empty
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#1106I also had this problem, and your test version seems to fix it! Thanks
Are you talking about Find (single) or Search (multiple)?
Sorry, screenshot is here:
Is there also nothing reported in the logs in Console.app?
I get this in system.log
Sep 10 08:24:11 Daniels-MBP-2 Skim[50167]: BUG in libdispatch client: kevent[EVFILT_MACHPORT] monitored resource vanished before the source cancel handler was invoked
Sep 10 08:31:29 Daniels-MBP-2 Skim[50243]: BUG in libdispatch client: kevent[EVFILT_MACHPORT] monitored resource vanished before the source cancel handler was invoked
Not sure if that’s helpful info...
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#1106I have put a new test version at http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/Skim.dmg Could you try this one out on Sierra?
BTW, are you searching with whole words search (from the search field menu), and does that matter?
Thanks tried it out and no luck with search (full word or partial, no difference)
Find is still working thankfully
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#1106Can you please make a Sample of Skim when it is seacrhing and attch the result?
You make a sample in Activity Monitor by selecting Skim and choosing View > Sample Process.
Apart from the sample, I have also renewed the test version at the same location, could you please test it out? This is really the last thing I can think of, otherwise it's Apple's responsibility.
the new version doesn't seem to fix search, but I did take two samples, attached. Let me know if this helps!
Pity that does not work. I'm out of ideas, I don't see how I can fix this, and I have about zero hope Apple will fix this. Unfortunately I can't foind anything of interest in the samples.
That’s alright, I can make do with find functionality for now and hope that apple fixes pdfkit sometime in the future.
Thanks for all your help!
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