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Dictionary in Preview
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Am I missing something here, or does Dictionary in both the context menu and Command-Ctrl-D incarnations not work with preview?
Ironically, I'd use the dictionary most when reading PDF's in Preview.
Anyone care to test it out themselves, or offer an explanation?
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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It's a cool tool, but I can't seem to get it to work in Preview or Acrobat Reader. Or Camino for that matter. But when reading technical articles it would be very helpful. You can still choose "Services -> Look up in Dictionary" and that works, but the shortcut doesn't...
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Oh geez...I'm gonna have a hard time explaining this in laymen terms.
Lets look at it this way...the Dictionary feature only works on text that can be manipulated (drag and dropped for example). PDF text isn't the same as the text used throughout OS X text boxes or Cocoa documents apps.
The reason?
PDFs have to look exactly the same on every computer and in every app that can open PDFs...therefore, PDFs can't use the way OS X handles text because the text would then look different on OS X than on other platforms.
Because PDF text isn't true OS X text, the Dictionary doesn't treat it such (although some things like Services do...)
This may or may not be fixed in the future...who knows.
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1. Grab a little app called Service Manager. This will let you map any service in the Services menu to a hot key.
2. Map "Look up in Dictionary" to a key (I use command /)
3. Make sure you have preview set in Text Tool mode.
4. Double click the word you are interested in, hilighting it, then hit your hot key.
Dictionary.app will load up with the definition for you.
Occasionally it will load up without the definition, in which case you just hit the hotkey a second time.
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Join Date: May 2005
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Thanks for all the tips. I figured that the text was somehow different in preview, seeing as you got completely different context menus and stuff, but thanks for clearing that up.
And don't assume I'm dumb because I'm relatively new to the forum..  (or was it my question.. hmmm.)
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Originally Posted by noreturn
Thanks for all the tips. I figured that the text was somehow different in preview, seeing as you got completely different context menus and stuff, but thanks for clearing that up.
And don't assume I'm dumb because I'm relatively new to the forum.. (or was it my question.. hmmm.)
Not assuming anyone's dumb...I try to explain in laymen terms as often as I can. It's a challenge I put on myself everytime I try to explain things. And explaining things related to computers is something I find hard to do.
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Ah.. Don't worry. I'm not offended, and I didn't mean to offend you later...
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Originally Posted by noreturn
Ah.. Don't worry. I'm not offended, and I didn't mean to offend you later...
None taken. 
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