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Re: [Gimp-docs] gimp-docs-list Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1

It's the way the PDF was created, which was probably on a Windows PC using something other than Adobe Acrobat.

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Today's Topics:

  1.  cannot search "GNU Image Manipulation Program: User Manual"
     on mac? help please! (Zariah Art)
  2. Re:  cannot search "GNU Image Manipulation Program: User
     Manual" on mac? help please! (Marco Ciampa)
  3. Re:  cannot search "GNU Image Manipulation Program: User
     Manual" on mac? help please! (Marco Ciampa)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 00:56:39 -1000
From: Zariah Art <z zariahart com>
To: gimp-docs-list gnome org
Subject: [Gimp-docs] cannot search "GNU Image Manipulation Program:
   User Manual" on mac? help please!
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Hello there!

i'd be so grateful for any guidance on my question :)


It's this:

I have the PDF "GNU Image Manipulation Program: User Manual"

downloaded to both my Windows PC, and my iMac OS X v.10.9.5.

The search function works perfectly in my PC, using Adobe Reader,

but?

it doesn't work at all in my Mac, using neither Preview, nor Firefox
browser?

nor even my newly-acquired (in  a desperate attempt at the end of a long
frustrating day of  troubleshooting as best i know how!) Skim PDF reader!

So strange, huh?


So then, i tried re-downloading the "GNU?" PDF to my Mac.? Still no luck.

Then,  i thought, well maybe it's the reader? perhaps there's some quirk in
this "GNU" PDF, that makes MOST readers unable to recognize all its text as
a fully searchable component?

(And maybe Adobe Reader is extra powerful in that regard?)


(I tried then double-checking, to be sure that i could use the search
function on my Mac in other PDFs, and yes i can!

I searched through every one i tried perfectly, and i tried several, ? all
except this "GNU" PDF work fine!


Unfortunately, when i searched online for an Adobe Reader download for my
Mac,

it seems that it does not exist for Mac!

Okay.


So  i thought, maybe the reason i couldn't make at least my Firefox search
in this "GNU" PDF in my MAC, is due to the add-on which i have only for
Windows not for mac:

Adobe Acrobat 11.0.8.4 PDF Plug-In For Firefox 11.0.8.?

it seemed perhaps a more functional app than Preview,  or than the app i
now have in Firefox on MAC, which is the built-in

Firefox PDF viewer('Free Foxit Reader').

But, alas, my search for that Adobe Acrobat add-on showed it also
unavailable for Macs.


One thing i did find,

though this might be just out of my desperation to find anything at all
that might be do-able?

(since this "GNU" PDF is crucial for me, as i depend upon the GIMP program
it pertains to and have had no success in installing the contextual help
itself! (how i wish i could!) and without being able to search this PDF, i
am hopelessly lost!)

?is this link:

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/73/adobe-reader

(= *Adobe Reader* for Mac- Mac Update)

= at http://creative.adobe.com/ .

But it seems to me to be probably only an "update" to something that maybe
was available at one time, as i cannot find an actual Adobe Reader app for
Mac??


So please,

does anyone have any ideas?

What have i not tried? ?or what am i not understanding??

Thanks so much,
Coatli
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 12:53:12 +0200
From: Marco Ciampa <ciampix libero it>
To: gimp-docs-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Gimp-docs] cannot search "GNU Image Manipulation
   Program: User Manual" on mac? help please!
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On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 12:56:39AM -1000, Zariah Art wrote:
So please,

does anyone have any ideas?

What have i not tried? ?or what am i not understanding??

Thanks so much,
Coatli


Where did you get the manual? How many pages?

-- 


Marco Ciampa

I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.

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| GNU/Linux User  #78271 |
| FSFE fellow       #364 |
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 12:59:57 +0200
From: Marco Ciampa <ciampix libero it>
To: gimp-docs-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Gimp-docs] cannot search "GNU Image Manipulation
   Program: User Manual" on mac? help please!
Message-ID: <20150411105957 GA5406 ciampix-A532>
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On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 12:53:12PM +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote:

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 12:56:39AM -1000, Zariah Art wrote:
So please,

does anyone have any ideas?

What have i not tried? ?or what am i not understanding??

Thanks so much,
Coatli


Where did you get the manual? How many pages?


Have you tried this:

http://gimp.linux.it/www/meta/gimp-en.pdf

??

--


Marco Ciampa

I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.

+------------------------+
| GNU/Linux User  #78271 |
| FSFE fellow       #364 |
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