Re: MAC (preview, finder) and ConTeXt pdf

[Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>]

On Fri, 31 May 2013 14:53:31 +0200
Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> >
> > OK, the situation with the Mac is very strange.
> > Today (an odd day), we can search for *some* text, but not all words are found.
> > It does not have to do with special characters or formatting. Simple words.
> > And the result in the "finder" does not always correspond to that of "preview".  
> 
> What exactly do you mean with search in finder? Searching for all
> documents on your computer containing a specific word?

I am not a Mac user so I do not know all of the proper "App" jargon.

I mean exactly opening the "finder" (file manager for normal people)
and searching for all documents containing a specific word.
(The word was "scarce" and "scarcity", not too frequent in his files... Ha, Ha!)
 
> Do you also have problems searching for specific words in preview or
> not (you said that results are different)?

Yes, and it depends on the specific word and only in certain files (on certain days).
I thus suspect a corrupted MacOS cache file...
 
> I just remembered that sometimes (long ago) I had some kind of
> "problems" due to some tiny kerning/boxes inserted into PDF between
> characters to compensate for whatever (microtypography or just
> "random" corrections to fix the second/third decimal of precision in
> positioning). That sometimes confused readers which considered the
> text to be two or three words when it was in fact one. But I don't
> know if that is related. One can sometimes see that in google search
> showing html version of a pdf document with seemingly randomly
> distributed spaces.

No, there is no problem using non-MacOS applications such as Adobe Reader.

Indeed, it does not appear to be a PDF problem but a MacOS problem.
As I am not interested in debugging the Mac, and I have now convinced myself
that there is no problem with the ConTeXt produced PDF, I have told my colleague
to be careful and *not* to rely on his search tool. Maybe it is just his Mac
that is corrupt. (Could also be an underlying file system problem.)

Alan
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