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

[Eddie Hargreaves]

On 5/7/06 11:56 AM, John Baltutis <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:

> On 05/07/06, Eddie Hargreaves <meged at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Do this after typing the search term and selecting a result: click on the
> drawer button, and the previously gray-colored result reverts to the color
> selected in the Appearance PrefPane. Click on the drawer button, previous
> selections are still available, select another result, click on the drawer
> button, and get the result in the Appearance selected color.

Good find. That led me to another discovery. Instead of closing the drawer,
you can hit the tab key to change focus to the content window. Tab will
cycle between the search box, the results list and the content window.
Whichever one is active will use the highlight color chosen in the
Appearance pane.

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Eddie Hargreaves