michael-mccracken.net

Skim 0.7

The amazing Christiaan Hofman has released another nice update to Skim, the great PDF reader that is quite literally my dream reader app.

As usual, there are detailed and complete release notes, and I’d like to call attention to my favorite new feature, because I use it all the time, and actually wrote part of it:

Skim can now download PDFs from remote URLs, which can be provided on the clipboard, dropped on the Skim icon, or through Services.

I use this all the time to drag a PDF URL from a browser to the Skim dock icon - Skim downloads the file and displays it in one step. Very handy.

Previously:
Announcing Skim: Stop printing - Start Skimming.
April 2, 2007

If you spend a lot of time reading articles and research papers that you get in PDF form, then you might be interested in the latest app from the folks who brought you BibDesk. If you already use BibDesk, then you certainly want to take a look.

Even though we keep our research papers stored on [...]

read the rest.
Feed, Endorsements & other Links

my bookmarks

© 2005 - 2007 Michael McCracken.