Acrobat fails to highlight found search terms

[Andy Kass]

I have the free Acrobat Reader 9.4.5 on Windows Vista Pro, and I have noticed this problem too.

Actually, I didn't even know about the Search feature, never needed it. The search window makes the search term bold in each occurrence, but when clicking on it to see it on the page, it has the same problem for me.

In both cases (Find and Search), whenever Acrobat switches pages, the next term is not highlighted (it does have the cursor after the word). So when using find, it'll be the first occurrence on the page (or last if going backward). When using search, clicking on an occurrance that changes the page doesn't highlight it, but it will be if on the same page. Clicking twice on an occurrance highlights it, even if on a new page.

Thanks,

  Andy

> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:19:54 -0400
> From: Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com>
> To: <srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com>, <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Subject: RE: Acrobat fails to highlight found search terms
> Message-ID: <SNT117-W376C2BB4E555650A76B681BA220 at phx.gbl>
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> 
> Yes, this bug was noted previously on the list. It only started after
> Adobe's most recent patch of Acrobat 9.0 (which was supposedly a security
> patch rather than anything affecting basic functionality), and only seems
> to be a problem under Windows XP. Reportedly, Find works fine under
> Windows 7 (nobody has said anything one way or the other about Vista).
 
> Search still works properly (for me, at least...), but Find has been
> rendered essentially useless. All we can do is wait to find out if
> Adobe considers this enough of a bug that they fix it in their next
> patch. Or else bite the bullet and buy into the new set of bugs that
> reportedly come with Acrobat X.
 
> Unexplicably cynical on a sunny Thursday morning,
> Fred Ridder