# Recommend a pdf program for mac? for quick lookup? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 17, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommend-a-pdf-program-for-mac-for-quick-lookup/89131 "2007-03-17T17:45:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![koloa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/4bbf92/32.png) [@koloa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/koloa)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommend-a-pdf-program-for-mac-for-quick-lookup/89131/1 "2007-03-17T17:45:29Z")
hi, i was wondering if there is a recommended program to help with quick lookup in a pdf file via tags or maybe a better bookmark interface. thanks. ---
**Author:** ![koloa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/4bbf92/32.png) [@koloa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/koloa)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/recommend-a-pdf-program-for-mac-for-quick-lookup/89131/2 "2007-03-17T18:49:39Z")
On 17 Mar 2007, at 17:45, koloa wrote: > i was wondering if there is a recommended program to help with quick > lookup in a pdf file via tags or maybe a better bookmark interface. MacOS X will index your PDF files for you, so you can search for them using Spotlight (either the general spotlight icon in the top right or in a specific directory from a finder window). You can tag your pdfs using the Spotlight comments on the file, these too will be indexed by MacOS X (press Command-I to get the info on the file, then just below the filename, you’ll find the comments section). In regards to the bookmarkability, both Preview and Acrobat (Reader) use a very similar way of doing things, and I don’t like it that much either, but it seems to be all there is. If there had been a fantastic PDF reader that could rival Preview or Acrobat, I bet you would have heard from it already 🙂 Best regards Peter De Berdt