<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#reading"/>
- <desc>Search for a given term on a page.</desc>
+ <desc>Find a word or phrase in a document.</desc>
- <revision pkgversion="2.30.3" version="0.1" date="2010-07-26" status="review"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="2.32" version="0.1" date="2010-11-08" status="review"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Phil Bull</name>
<email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
</info>
-<title>Finding Things In A Document</title>
+<title>Finding Text In A Document</title>
<steps>
- <item><p>Click <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Find</gui></guiseq> or press
- <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>F</key></keyseq> or <key>/</key> to display a
+ <item><p>Click <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Find</gui></guiseq> or press
+ <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>F</key></keyseq> or <key>/</key> to display a
search box. </p></item>
- <item><p>Type the word or phrase you want to look for and a search will start
+ <item><p>Type the word or phrase you want to look for and a search will start
automatically.</p></item>
- <item><p>The <gui>Find Previous</gui> and <gui>Find Next</gui> buttons let you skip from
+ <item><p>The <gui>Find Previous</gui> and <gui>Find Next</gui> buttons let you skip from
one search result to another.</p></item>
-
+
<item>
<p>To hide the search bar, click anywhere in the document.</p>
- </item>
+ </item>
</steps>
<p>
-If the word or phrase you searched does not appear in the entire file <app>Evince</app> will say <em>Not found</em>. However, if it appears in the file at least once, Evince will tell you how many times the word you searched occurs on each page. This is apparent if you skip from one result to another as described above or scroll through the file.
+If the word or phrase you searched does not appear in the entire document <app>Evince</app> will say <em>Not found</em>. However, if it appears in the document at least once, Evince will tell you how many times the word you searched occurs on each page. This is apparent if you skip from one result to another as described above or scroll through the document.
</p>
<note>
<p>
- Some documents are not searchable because the original text of the document has been converted into a different format. For example, some PDF's and many PostScript (.ps) files are not searchable.
+Only PDF documents are searchable. Some PDF documents are not searchable because their text
+is encoded in the document as an image.
</p>
</note>