Please help me find it!

I’ve been reading a lot of lengthy documents online recently, and I’m finding the user interfaces of web browsers, PDF readers and other such applications to be severely lacking. Don’t even get me started about Zinio Reader.

Apple’s Preview is a very good PDF reader, but it fails me when I want to search for words in a PDF document. In the following example, I searched for the word ‘inject’. After it found the page, I had to scan through the page line by line with my tired eyes until I found the near invisible gray highlighted word!

I would like to poke the eyes out of the person at Apple that decided to highlight black text with a gray background! Yes, inverse video text was the only way to highlight text on a monochrome ANSI terminal when they were popular, but isn’t it high time to discard this old user interface maxim and come up with someting more friendly for my 1440x900 display? Something that is easy to find on a page swarming with uniform horizontal text. Perhaps an animation of dancing girls next to your text? Hmmmmm… I think I’ll settle for what a neat little PDF viewer called Skim does:

Now that’s much better!