Comments on: Announcing Skim: Stop printing – Start Skimming.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:44:20 +0000

Jordan: make sure you're using the text tool. (Tools > Text Tool)
Also, some PDFs don't have text layers, they're just bitmap pictures of text. Try another PDF to test this.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:23:42 +0000

I am not the most intelligent person in the world, but I am trying to figure out how to highlight test in SKIM and having no luck. I am unable to select text to highlight. Is this something I am doing wrong or something about the file or what? HELP!

By: Academic Productivity » Skimming on the MAC - a new PDF reader

Academic Productivity » Skimming on the MAC - a new PDF reader — Wed, 16 May 2007 09:11:22 +0000

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By: Administrator

Administrator — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:54:51 +0000

Hardy - I think that if you have Skim set as your default PDF viewer, the browsers should open it as necessary.

With Firefox, it may use its own mapping because it's not really a native mac app. I'm not sure about that.

As for the browser plugin, no - nobody's working on that, but if you register it as a feature request on the skim sourceforge site, you can bring it to the attention of the developers. It sounds like a good idea, but I'm not sure how much is involved in getting that to work.

By: Hardy

Hardy — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:48:01 +0000

I have been enjoying skim for the last two weeks, and only wish there were a way to force Firefox (and even Safari) to open PDF documents with skim, rather than Adobe Reader (or the Adobe Plugin in Safari). Is anyone working on a skim browser plugin?

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Red Sweater Blog - CocoaCast With Jon & Daniel — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:42:03 +0000

[...] Skim in the podcast, but couldn’t remember its name. I only remembered I had read about it on Michael McCracken’s [...]

By: gian

gian — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:24:40 +0000

This is a terrific application. I already use it as my regular pdf viewer. There is just one think I miss: PDFsync. If I had that too, I could use skim also in combination with TextMate while texing…

By: Chinmoy

Chinmoy — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:53:47 +0000

Hello,

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this app. I have wished so many times that Preview had a "Make-page-fit-full-screen" feature, and finally Skim has it.

Chinmoy

By: Administrator

Administrator — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:32:27 +0000

Hi everyone, thanks for all the comments! – I don’t have time to reply to everything, but I appreciate the comments and I am reading every one.

I have a couple of things I wanted to make clear: I’m not the only person working on Skim. In fact, Christiaan Hofman has done almost all the work.

Skim is an open source team project. As such, the best place to report bugs or request features is using the appropriate tracker on the project page at sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583

If you would like to discuss the app with all the developers and users, please join the skim-app-users mailing list. You can find a link from the http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ main page.

Thanks!

By: Veronica

Veronica — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:03:53 +0000

Hello

Terrific program, it is now my standard pdf-viewer program. I have one suggestion, though... The snapshot function is great, but wouldn't it be possible to instead choose specific pages (by i.e. ctrl-clic) and then be able to swap betwen those 2, 3 or more pages? It gets a bit annoying with the extra window.

Anyways, thanks for a great app :)

Veronica, Denmark