On Mar 5, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: > > On 3/5/08 2:00 PM, "Christiaan Hofman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> On 5 Mar 2008, at 9:37 PM, Ingrid Giffin wrote: >> >>> On 3/5/08 1:34 PM, "Christiaan Hofman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>>> Also it's not clear to me really which view you mean, as you >>>>>> refer to >>>>>> "bottom" and "linked documents", while normally the bottom >>>>>> preview >>>>>> displays a text representation of the selected publications. >>>>> >>>>> The bottom pane of the main window displays the pdf file that is >>>>> attached to >>>>> the selected record, because I have "View>>Preview Display>>Linked >>>>> File" >>>>> selected. >>>> >>>> Probably that won't matter, because I've removed that option and am >>>> not planning to put it back. >>> >>> You mean the PDF will no longer be visible in the main window? That >>> will >>> make things much more difficult. Can that not be kept as an option? >>> >> >> That's right, there has been a lot of motivation on the list before >> as >> to why it actually is not a good idea. It reflects the selection, and >> it allows viewing PDFs to some extent. It's less well suited for >> reading the paper, but this pane is not well suited to read papers >> anyway. > > I use it to see whether the PDF has searchable text or not. If the > text is > searchable, parts of the text can be selected in that pane. If not, > not.
Use the new file view for that, either in the side or bottom. Hit cmd- y to open the PDF, and you can then select text if it's selectable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
