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    Can QuickSilver search text within PDF?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by PubicTheHare, Mar 6, 2008.

  1. PubicTheHare

    PubicTheHare Notebook Geek

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    Not sure if Leopard's Spotlight does this now - or if it can do boolean like Google's OSX search - but am curious if QuickSilver can search for text within PDFs?

    Sounds like most people have ditched QuickSilver in favor of Leopard, though I know QS is so much more than just a search tool.
     
    PubicTheHare, Mar 6, 2008
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  2. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    Eh? QuickSilver is an application launch tool. It's not designed for searching files.
    It cannot search contents of files by default, although there might be a plugin that can do that. If you are looking for a search tool, use Spotlight.
     
    Budding, Mar 6, 2008
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    r0k Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm using quicksilver as a temporary "start button" crutch. I have some pretty deep folder structures and I find drilling down into applications to launch things tedious. I refuse to drag dozens of apps to the dock so QS gets me to the less commonly used ones.

    It claims to search, but it relies on plugins to do so. The jury is out on whether I'm keeping it or not. QS seems to be redundant to what spotlight can do. QS can be set to launch on ctrl-space. Spotlight has command-space. If anything, QS got me thinking about spotlight and I'm not sure it gives me that much over what spotlight does so I may find myself dragging QS to the trash one day soon.

    hope this helps...
     
    r0k, Mar 7, 2008
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