[OS X TeX] Spotlight

[R Martinez]

All,

I have never had a problem having Spotlight find text in my .tex files. I use TeXShop 3.16, MacTeX2012, and LaTeX.

Raul

On May 21, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Marc Larcher <marc.larcher at free.fr> wrote:

> Dear fellow mac and TeXShop users,
> 
> Maybe I am out of topic, but this whole spotlight thing made me try to use it on my files… No problem to find words in my .tex files, but the pdf files (typeset from the .tex files) are never found !!! Is there something to do, to enable spotlight to analyze them ?
> I typeset using UTF-8 encoding, and XeLaTeX engine, but I don't think it is relevant…
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Marc
> 
> Le 21 mai 2013 à 19:21, Eric van der Oord a écrit :
> 
>> Thank you !
>> 
>> I've deleted the bad importer. How can I get a good one ?
>> 
>> 
>> Best Regards
>> 
>> Eric
>> 
>> Le 21 mai 2013 à 17:04, Adam R. Maxwell <amaxwell at mac.com> a écrit :
>> 
>>> Looks like you have an old importer installed in /Library/Spotlight (perhaps PPC-only). You should delete that, as it'll confuse Spotlight.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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