Hi Esther, Thank you for reminding me about Skim, I think I actually prefer it to Preview, although I can't remember why. Preview is a very nice app though and i've had very few PDFs that do not read on Mac. This unfortunately has not been the case for me using Linux or Windows.
TC James 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 > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > >
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