[X4U] "Find" highlighted color in Preview...any way to change?

Eddie Hargreaves meged at earthlink.net
Sat May 6 09:08:46 PDT 2006


On 5/6/06 8:16 AM, John Kiss <john.kiss at comcast.net> wrote:

> On May 5, 2006, at 7:47 PM, Michael Elliott wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering if anyone knew a way to change the highlight color
>> in those PDF documents to something more colorful.  I can't find a
>> setting anywhere in Preview's preferences for this, and the
>> standard MacOS X "Appearance" pane in the System Preferences
>> application doesn't affect it.
> 
> I'm able to change the highlight color in PDF documents by using the
> MacOS X "Appearance" pane in System Preferences. Maybe something is
> hosed with your System Preferences such as the plist file if you
> can't change the highlight color in other apps as well.

John, type a search term into Preview's drawer, then select one of the
results. The corresponding word will be highlighted in the PDF, but in gray,
not in the selection color chosen in the Appearance pane.

-- 
Eddie Hargreaves




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