![]() ![]() You could try opening the pdf in a Word Processor program from an office suite such as LibreOffice, OpenOffice, MS Office if you already have them installed. ![]() As mentioned by another poster, some pdf documents just contain a set of pictures of pages of text rather than true text, so they cannot be searched as one would expect of a document containing text. Unfortunately pdf documents can vary depending on the creation software - they do not always do the same thing/stick to accepted standards/encryption and/or protection mechansims etc. Sounds very much like the document is at fault. pdf extension?Īny further suggestions gratefully received. Wooley, thanks for the link I'll have a look, if it were a scanned image how would I know? would/could it have a. The person who sent it is now on holiday until next week. ![]() So it appears it's the document that's causing the problem not Preview, trouble is I just don't know what the problem is. ![]() Then I thought hah! let's try opening another pdf, I opened a utility bill, BT broadband as it so happens, which I downloaded from their site, I opened it in Preview and the search function works fine. pdf extension, when I clicked on it it opened in Preview suggesting it was a pdf - as opposed to anything else.ī) I'm running MacOS 10.13.3, there was an update a couple of weeks ago I think, I always update when prompted.Ĭ) Thanks kyu66 and madhatter, I tried opening in Safari, Chrome (since I have Chrome installed) and iBooks but got the same problem in all 3. Well firstly thanks for all the advice, this has taught me something, I'm just not quite sure what.Ī) the document was an attachment to an email, it has a name and a. ![]()
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