cannot search "GNU Image Manipulation Program: User Manual" on mac? help please!

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Hello there!

i'd be so grateful for any guidance on my question :)


It's this:

I have the PDF "GNU Image Manipulation Program: User Manual"

downloaded to both my Windows PC, and my iMac OS X v.10.9.5.

The search function works perfectly in my PC, using Adobe Reader,

but—

it doesn't work at all in my Mac, using neither Preview, nor Firefox browser—

nor even my newly-acquired (in  a desperate attempt at the end of a long frustrating day of  troubleshooting as best i know how!) Skim PDF reader!

So strange, huh?


So then, i tried re-downloading the "GNU…" PDF to my Mac.— Still no luck.

Then,  i thought, well maybe it's the reader— perhaps there's some quirk in this "GNU" PDF, that makes MOST readers unable to recognize all its text as a fully searchable component?

(And maybe Adobe Reader is extra powerful in that regard?)


(I tried then double-checking, to be sure that i could use the search function on my Mac in other PDFs, and yes i can!

I searched through every one i tried perfectly, and i tried several, — all except this "GNU" PDF work fine!


Unfortunately, when i searched online for an Adobe Reader download for my Mac,

it seems that it does not exist for Mac!

Okay.


So  i thought, maybe the reason i couldn't make at least my Firefox search in this "GNU" PDF in my MAC, is due to the add-on which i have only for Windows not for mac:

 Adobe Acrobat 11.0.8.4 PDF Plug-In For Firefox 11.0.8.—

it seemed perhaps a more functional app than Preview,  or than the app i now have in Firefox on MAC, which is the built-in

Firefox PDF viewer('Free Foxit Reader').

But, alas, my search for that Adobe Acrobat add-on showed it also unavailable for Macs.


One thing i did find,

though this might be just out of my desperation to find anything at all that might be do-able—

(since this "GNU" PDF is crucial for me, as i depend upon the GIMP program it pertains to and have had no success in installing the contextual help itself! (how i wish i could!) and without being able to search this PDF, i am hopelessly lost!)

—is this link:

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/73/adobe-reader

(= Adobe Reader for Mac- Mac Update)

= at http://creative.adobe.com/ .

But it seems to me to be probably only an "update" to something that maybe was available at one time, as i cannot find an actual Adobe Reader app for Mac…?


So please,

does anyone have any ideas?

What have i not tried? …or what am i not understanding?…

Thanks so much,

Coatli


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