Lookup feature in Lion Preview

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Hi fellas.

I just installed Lion recently and have been doing the complete workaround. I noticed the awesome feature of looking up words directly on-screen via popup, working both in Safari and Mail etc. However, I couldn't seem to get it working in Preview? It's kinda essential that I get it working with this, seeing as I do most of my reading in this app.

So, do any of you know anything about this? Or an alternate way to enable this feature for Preview?

NB: I run an app called BetterTouchTool alongside to complement the gestures, even tho, I had it disabled during this problem.
 

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Probably depends on the file type you're opening with Preview. Look Up works fine with pdf files. Not too sure about any others. Definitely doesn't work with image files.
 
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Scratch that, what I meant to say was that, I can't get the gesture to work with it; the three-finger double tap. It's working fine in Mail and Safari tho?

Could it perhaps be that BTT is interfering with the gestures or something?
 

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Nope, not working the same way with the 3 finger tap in Preview - who knows why??? :|

A quick way though is one finger double tap to highlight the word, then double tap to bring up the menu.
 
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Sure, whatever, I guess. I just read that Look Up would work with any Mac Native App, including also Preview? Anyhow, guess it's not implementing the gesture with it. I'll try to see if I can get BTT to configure the gesture.

Thanks for the help.
 

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