Re: Another - a short one.

Post #324,019 by SpiceWare 4/4/10 6:37:27 PM Reply	Re: Another - a short one. It needs a better file management system, some way of storing pdf files and djvu files so that you can search them all at once with something like Spotlight. I donÂt think this thing is going to work properly on the iPhone operating system, itÂs going to need something different/better. Somebody's not well informed here's a nice page at Apple's site, "If itÂs on your iPad, Spotlight will help you find it." http://www.apple.com...tures/search.html
Post #324,022 by Another Scott 4/4/10 6:53:05 PM Reply	Dunno. From the comments, it seems like one needs a PDF "app" to do things like searching. And Apple's blessings are needed. "Air Sharing" is mentioned - http://www.avatron.c....php?10,8646,8646 The iPad sounds like a neat box, but it is a v1.0 device. I'm going to resist the temptation for a year or two, if I can, to let things mature a little. Cheers, Scott.
Post #324,024 by SpiceWare 4/4/10 7:08:13 PM Reply	works fine on the Mac I don't have any Adobe PDF software installed on my MBP and Spotlight has no problems finding things inside a PDF file.
Post #324,026 by Another Scott 4/4/10 7:20:46 PM Reply	Seems to be an iPad/iPod OS issue. Spotlight uses plugins to expand search functionality on OS X. The iPad/iPod OS doesn't support plugins (at least it didn't in December). http://www.avatron.c...646,8646#msg-8646 (and the rest of the thread). At least that's my understanding of the situation at the moment. Cheers, Scott.
Post #324,035 by SpiceWare 4/5/10 10:27:08 AM Reply	that's probably not the real issue if I open up a terminal session and create a new file vitestfile, as soon as I save it I can spotlight search it and it shows up in the Document group of Spotlight's results with vitestfile as the name of the document. If the search happens to turn up file ~/Library/Mail/.../52813.emlx then spotlight shows the results in the Messages group with the email's subject as the name of the document. I suspect the only thing the plugins do is allow spotlight to return a more meaningful description for the results - most people wouldn't know that 52813.emlx was an email message and thus whether or not it was what they were looking for. What's probably up on the iPhone/iPad is that Spotlight's been changed to not search everything since the filesystem is locked down as far as the end user is concerned. Before the iPad there wasn't much content created on the iPhone, so Apple probably didn't have a way for the third party apps to tell the iPhone's Spotlight engine "index this directory, it contains the user's documents." I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the next iPhone OS update includes an API call to indicate searchable folders.

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