Interesting Esther I had not heard of the Skim app before.  Looks rather nice.  
Do you use it much?

Donal
On 15 Jan 2010, at 19:18, Esther wrote:

> Hi Dónal,
> 
> Since I'm late to this (and your earlier) thread on presentations, I'll just 
> mention that another option for displaying your PDF presentations from Beamer 
> or from Keynote (when you save them as PDF files) is to use Skim instead of 
> Preview.  Check out the "View" options listed under Skim's menu bar.  You'll 
> actually want to use "Presentation" (Command-Option-P) instead of "Full 
> Screen" (Command-Shift-F), and you can set up presentation options such as 
> the kind of transition, duration for page display, etc. with "Presentation 
> Options…" (Command-Control-T) under this same menu.  If you're asked for 
> presentations as PDF output files (to avoid font incompatibilities between 
> Windows and Mac presentation programs), you can also display such files with 
> Skim this way (e.g., if you provided a Keynote file as a PDF output in this 
> format, such as by using the "Export…" option under the "File" menu of 
> Keynote and choosing "PDF" as your format, you can  run the output from Skim 
> in presentation mode and just use the arrow keys to advance slides).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Esther
> 
> Donal Fitzpatrick wrote:
>> Thanks Anne,.  I can quite happily live with "buggy".  It resembles my own 
>> efforts at software development so I won't complain... <smile>
>> Anne Robertson wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Dónal,
>>> 
>>> I've managed to translate slides using Keynote. This was a presentation 
>>> imported from PowerPoint. I found that VO crashed every time I moved to the 
>>> next slide, but it recovered quickly and I just carried on as though 
>>> nothing had happened.
>>> 
>>> So, it's a bit buggy but it's manageable.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Anne
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