Re: How can i read the stack frames of running process?

Richard wrote:

Ernie Wright <erniew@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I have a couple of reasons for distrusting the search facility for PDFs
in Adobe Acrobat. On general principle, it's much easier to screw up
the programming of a search facility for a complex format, and it's also
more likely that a richer encoding will contain more errors merely by

More spelling errors?

No.

Or are you saying the same thing twice? ie its harder to program a
search algorithm for more complex formats? Which is as obvious as
water is wetter than dry sand.

Evidently it's *not* that obvious.

chance. But more specifically, I have several times seen a PDF search
fail for items that I can actually see. There are any number of reasons
this can happen with PDF, none of which apply to plain text.

There is one reason : that the search algorithm is full of errors.

Are you saying that's the only possible reason? There are many others.

Or are you saying that this is one reason that applies to both PDF and
plain text? Clearly there is more than one of those also. I was
specifically talking about reasons that apply to PDF and do not apply
to plain text.

I have never personally had a PDF search not work.

I have.

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- Ernie http://home.comcast.net/~erniew
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