Beat me to it! The iPad would be a splendid base for (an integrated?) Bibdesk and Skim. There's a iPhone app called GoodReader, which manages PDFs quite nicely, and that will work on the iPad, but you can't annotate and the indexing is non-existent. But you can see the files.
DN James Owen wrote: > I just wanted to open discussion on how to use the new iPad as a > paper browser/displayer. I can imagine sitting on a couch reading and > annotating papers with annotations included into the linked file c.f. > Skim notes, or showing papers to other people, perhaps displaying > them on a big screen, pointing out details on the iPad and having the > highlights show up on the big screen. > > As the iPad will not expose the file system and no multitasking as in > the iPhone, it would need to be possible to view PDFs without leaving > BibDesk, and to bring linked files along onto the iPad. I can imagine > an iTunes-like paradigm, where the PDFs are stored in some archive > only accessible from within BibDesk. This sounds like a unification > of Skim and BibDesk. How would touch and multitouch be useful in this > scenario? Obviously it would be nice to flick from page to page, and > zoom in on parts of a document. > > Anyone have ideas, comments? > > James > -- __________ ANU RSAA Mt Stromlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
