Re: Preview versus skim?

2012-08-07 Thread Maria Chapman
Hi. i normally open a file in skim or preview and interact with the text. I then do a command a to select everything and command c to copy. I then paste it in to a text editor. Pressing command shift t in itext express and text edit will give you a plain text version. hth Blessings! Maria

Re: Preview versus skim?

2012-08-06 Thread Jürgen Fleger
The only idea seems to be to write to Apple Accessibility and hope that the'll change it soon. Jürgen Am 06.08.2012 um 05:25 schrieb Dan Roy droy1...@gmail.com: Esther: Thanks vary much for this resource, it's most appreciated. It does definitely have more options. unfortunately, it

Re: Preview versus skim?

2012-08-05 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Esther, thanks for your hint. I installed Skim and it seems to be a good peace of software. :-) Since the update to Mountain Lion I have trouble using Preview and I hoped to resolve it in Skim. Unfortunately it isn't. So you might have discovered it as well. When I open a pdf file a line

Re: Preview versus skim?

2012-08-05 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Skim is no better as far as access to things like tables in PDF's, compared to preview is it? On 2012-08-05, at 1:16 AM, Esther mori...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Chris, Skim has been referred to as Preview on steroids. It's free and open source with a creative commons license, and gets

Re: Preview versus skim?

2012-08-05 Thread Les Kriegler
I took a look at Skim and had more difficulty accessing pdf's than I did with Preview, although access isn't that good in Preview either from what I've seen. I think the best access to pdf documents is through Adobe Reader in Windows. You can arrow around in documents, jump to pages, and the

Re: Preview versus skim?

2012-08-05 Thread Dan Roy
Esther: Thanks vary much for this resource, it's most appreciated. It does definitely have more options. unfortunately, it didn't eliminate the 1 big problem I am having with Preview. After interacting with the text and then trying to read through the file, I am getting words that appear to

Preview versus skim?

2012-08-04 Thread chris hallsworth
The subject says it all. What are the pros and cons please. Thanks! - Original Message - From: Esther mori...@mac-access.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2012 2:43 AM Subject: Re: merging several PDF files into one. Hi Chris, It's actually possible