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

[Muckerheide]

on 5/7/06 3:08 PM, Eddie Hargreaves at meged at earthlink.net wrote:

> 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.

I find that if the Toolbar is visible, the Tab cycles through all the
Toolbar icons, or Shift-Tab twice reverses to the Search box then the
Content window.
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