Re: [Skim-app-users] The display of Skim changed

2021-02-26 Thread Adam R. Maxwell via Skim-app-users
I think you only get the new toolbar behavior when you link with the latest SDK. This bit TeXShop, LaTeXit, and TeX Live Utility also when we compiled for the M1. Apple's default is dumb, but it's not entirely unreasonable, as they usually assume that if you're compiling for the latest OS,

Re: [Skim-app-users] automate continuous scrolling display of PDFs

2015-01-05 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jan 5, 2015, at 20:31 , Schneider schne...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Note: Skim can crash when one does this. I think it happens if the overwrite starts before Skim has finished reading the file and has stabilized. Actually, this is why I've always discouraged it. PDF isn't designed to be

Re: [Skim-app-users] automate continuous scrolling display of PDFs

2015-01-05 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jan 5, 2015, at 21:05 , Schneider schne...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Right. We had discussions about this some years ago and the authors of Skim did not want to do anything about it. Speaking as the guy who originally added kqueue support to Skim for watching files and reloading when they

Re: [Skim-app-users] Yosemite and Skim resolution

2014-10-20 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 20, 2014, at 06:05 , Ivan Werning iwern...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else noticing degrading resolution in Skim after an upgrade to Yosemite. Fonts look very bold and pixelated, and their contrast seems to vary a lot depending on the zoom level. Here is an example for comparison:

Re: [Skim-app-users] resetting/saving hidden preferences

2013-12-03 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Dec 03, 2013, at 08:19 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 3, 2013, at 15:59, Ivan Werning wrote: Is there a quick way to reset all the hidden preferences? Or must I go one by one using the CLI. Remove the file ~/Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.plist (this

Re: [Skim-app-users] resetting/saving hidden preferences

2013-12-03 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Dec 03, 2013, at 03:07 PM, Ivan Werning iwern...@gmail.com wrote:It was not so easy to remove the files (for some reason I could trash them, but the trash did not let me empty it, until I rebooted) and Skim.app, when loaded, would continue to have these preference options.Finally, I did manage

Re: [Skim-app-users] Script folder for Skim

2013-02-27 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Feb 27, 2013, at 16:06, Rosario Criscione criscis...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno 27/feb/2013, alle ore 16.40, Maxwell, Adam R ha scritto: On Feb 27, 2013, at 13:28, humanengr wrote: Try a search for system service folder os x in Google. Only works for standalone Services,

Re: [Skim-app-users] Script folder for Skim

2013-02-27 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Feb 27, 2013, at 16:25, Rosario Criscione criscis...@gmail.com wrote: But now I'm fine, I was able, I put the script in ~/Library/Services Glad you got it worked out. Automator (if it still exists) and AppleScript is probably the best way to make your own Service using Skim. I've only

Re: [Skim-app-users] Puzzled user

2013-02-08 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Feb 8, 2013, at 17:39 , Aaron Meurer asmeu...@gmail.com wrote: By the way, is it possible to disable the progress bar that pops up when the document is reloading? I get why it is there, to show you if it is really reloading or not, which is especially important since the autoreloading can

Re: [Skim-app-users] Puzzled user

2013-02-07 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Feb 7, 2013, at 13:18 , Thomas Schneider schne...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Adam: That may reduce the probability of crashing, but there is no guarantee that it will actually solve the problems you are seeing. To anyone thinking of using the automatic reload: you are asking for crashes and

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim on the Mac App Store?

2012-01-20 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jan 20, 2012, at 14:02 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: Indeed, the BSD license is pretty permissive. However, it has an acknowledgement clause for reuse, namely inclusion of the original copyright: Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of

[Skim-app-users] tracker spam

2011-12-31 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
Would it be reasonable to disable anonymous comments on the trackers? I watch the RSS feed, and there are about a dozen spam entries per day on the iPad support request, which overwhelms the actual content on the feed. I couldn't find a way to disable comments without closing the report,

Re: [Skim-app-users] Folders/Categories Within Notes Pane

2011-06-05 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jun 5, 2011, at 13:35 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jun 5, 2011, at 16:01, Adam Cronkright wrote: Hey Jon, Thanks a bunch man. I think this may be the direction I go. Still trying to get the Clip and Annotate to work, but to anyone who uses this program, when I clip from Skim, is

Re: [Skim-app-users] Folders/Categories Within Notes Pane

2011-06-05 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jun 5, 2011, at 14:25 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jun 5, 2011, at 22:54, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Yeah, that would be a job for scripting, I think. For instance, using AppleScript you might be able to construct a URL in Skim that links to a specific page: http://bluedragon.blog

Re: [Skim-app-users] finding skim-annotated PDFs

2011-05-31 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On May 31, 2011, at 20:34 , Thomas Schneider wrote: It does, however, work (for me) on an individual pdf as well. In that case it crashed conv_pdf_w_notes_to_pdfds_03.sh: line 19: [: !=: unary operator expected Searching google for that error indicates that perhaps line 19 should be

Re: [Skim-app-users] finding skim-annotated PDFs

2011-05-31 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On May 31, 2011, at 21:07 , Thomas Schneider wrote: if [ $parentFolderExt != pdfd ]; then (adding double quotes around $parentFolderExt). That's just a guess... That's often true in scripts but it didn't make a difference. Try putting echo parentFolderExt $parentFolderExt before that

Re: [Skim-app-users] Viewing PDF's without saving them

2011-01-25 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jan 25, 2011, at 01:25 , Fischlin Andreas wrote: This is done the old-fashioned Unix way and has nothing to do with RAM. I never heard that a file is lost because the system takes it away while you are using it. Then I guess you heard it here first, eh? On UNIX, you can delete (unlink)

Re: [Skim-app-users] indexes out of order

2011-01-25 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jan 25, 2011, at 20:50 , Justin C. Walker wrote: I noticed this error in the system log: Skim[800]: CorePDF: [CPTextRange addIndexesTo:] indexes out of order Is it anything to be concerned about? Is it specific to a file, or something to do with Skim's internal bookkeeping?

Re: [Skim-app-users] rotation bug

2011-01-07 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:01 , Thomas Schneider wrote: Alternately, you could hack Skim to get each page's rotation and apply it to the new document when you reload, or store a flag somewhere indicating that you had previously rotated pages. I looked at the available tools and checked again.

Re: [Skim-app-users] rotation bug

2011-01-06 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jan 6, 2011, at 22:13 , Thomas Schneider wrote: Skim clearly holds a single parameter defining the display orientation of ALL pages for the entire document. It is NOT, I repeat, NOT the rotation of individual pages independently. Your repetition of this reminds me of a favorite quote [1].

Re: [Skim-app-users] reading my djvu's with Skim

2010-02-13 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Feb 13, 2010, at 8:02 AM, thecolourblue wrote: The issue has been brought up several times before, so there is clearly an expressed demand for it, and given the poor state of djvu readers on the mac, I suspect a large amount of unexpressed support. I think the reasons for rejecting the

Re: [Skim-app-users] Document Background color

2010-02-03 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Feb 3, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Duke Normandin wrote: I assume you are implying that Apple's pdfKit is open-source? Then would not appKit be hackable then? Or is the API the only thing available to the developer? PDF Kit is not open source, and there is no API in PDF Kit for setting a page's

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim Crashing

2009-10-13 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:18 PM, Samuel T Leung wrote: I'm not sure how useful the rest of the crash report is but since it's a long list I cut it off here. If the rest of the crash report is useful let me know and I'll post the rest. You'll need to post the entire crash report or attach to

Re: [Skim-app-users] Script? Random order on Presentation mode

2009-10-12 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:59 PM, James Howison wrote: You could just create a new temp PDF with the pages jumbled, then ask Skim to open that. I liked that idea, so I stole it :). In the attached script, I took a slightly different approach, and used PyObjC instead of pdftk to rearrange the

Re: [Skim-app-users] How to print only 1 page out of a 30 pages pdf

2009-10-02 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 2, 2009, at 6:58 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Oct 2, 2009, at 15:08, Herbert Huber wrote: Sorry, in my last question, instead of Where can I choose the panel range? it should of course be Where can I choose the page range? Servus, tschau, bye Herbert Huber http://www.gavagai.de

Re: [Skim-app-users] nightly builds

2009-10-02 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 2, 2009, at 1:40 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: There are no nightly builds for Skim. All you can do is get a working copy of svn and build it yourself. You'll need the Xcode developer tools for that. The Wiki has instructions on how to get and build it. You certainly don't need to

Re: [Skim-app-users] nightly builds

2009-10-02 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 2, 2009, at 7:23 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Oct 2, 2009, at 1:40 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: There are no nightly builds for Skim. All you can do is get a working copy of svn and build it yourself. You'll need the Xcode developer tools for that. The Wiki has instructions on how

Re: [Skim-app-users] Bookmarks menu

2009-06-20 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jun 20, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Greg Martin wrote: This is a question about the bookmarks that appear in the Bookmarks menu at the top of the screen. Is there any way they can be exported so I can duplicate them on a second computer? Any of the following would work for me: copying the documents

Re: [Skim-app-users] ATSserver using a lot of cpu

2009-05-26 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On May 25, 2009, at 1:55 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 25 May 2009, at 10:50 AM, k2a...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, each time I do a first search when opening a pdf, the ATSserver process runs for many minutes, using 50% of my CPU, before I can get any results. The following searches

Re: [Skim-app-users] find table selection disabled?

2008-10-06 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 4, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Oct 4, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: BTW, what dod you do about the aliens? Diff against yesterday's svn head is attached. Debugging indicated that PDFKit returns characters in the Unicode private use area, which

Re: [Skim-app-users] find table selection disabled?

2008-10-04 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 4, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: I see that too and fixed it. Thanks. thanks... BTW, what dod you do about the aliens? Diff against yesterday's svn head is attached. Debugging indicated that PDFKit returns characters in the Unicode private use area, which of

Re: [Skim-app-users] Open With Menu

2008-06-26 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jun 26, 2008, at 4:24 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 26 Jun 2008, at 8:18 AM, Rolf Schmolling wrote: Hi, this is a problem because of timemachine… those copies of Skim are in your timemachine backup. I had a similar problem with BibDesk, maybe the workaround from there could be

Re: [Skim-app-users] QuickLook

2008-05-07 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On May 7, 2008, at 7:25 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 7 May 2008, at 3:17 PM, Derick Fay wrote: To somone's comment, Count me as another voice wanting Skim integration. A question regarding this ? would/could quicklook provide the bridge for this? If skim files are 'quicklookable' (I

Re: [Skim-app-users] zooming with multitouch trackpad

2008-05-03 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On May 3, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Ivan Werning wrote: On May 3, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 3 May 2008, at 7:53 PM, Ivan Werning wrote: I couldn't find a solution to this problem anywhere. I don't know what is going on. I have an issue with my Skim Latex workflow. I like

Re: [Skim-app-users] zooming with multitouch trackpad

2008-04-06 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Apr 6, 2008, at 9:02 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 6 Apr 2008, at 5:42 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Apr 6, 2008, at 7:50 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 6 Apr 2008, at 3:47 PM, Ivan Werning wrote: On Apr 6, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: The odd thing is that all

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim-DEVONthink redux

2008-03-28 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
I can sympathize with the DT developers. They're being asked to support something that is a) subject to change without notice (Skim's note format) b) does not have support of a company to ensure future development and c) would require fair amount of code, at least for full note display.

Re: [Skim-app-users] 'Skim' for Panther

2008-03-28 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Mar 28, 2008, at 6:55 PM, Geoffrey Thomlinson wrote: I run a mix of 10.3.9 10.4.11, and I seem to have lost track of the identity of the last Panther-compatible version of 'Skim'. Please can someone let me know? Skim has always required 10.4 and later; it could never work on Panther. --

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim-DEVONthink redux

2008-03-27 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Thursday, March 27, 2008, at 04:39PM, Michael Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the prospects for having Skim usable, at least as a reader, -within- DEVONthink rather than as an external editor/reader? [...] It would be much more convenient if the Skim notes panel was available

Re: [Skim-app-users] reading Unix info files in Skim?

2008-03-16 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
a small TeX distribution. Yes, I should have started snipping the quote at A followup question..., and then maybe you wouldn't have needed to post this. Sue me. adam Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 14 Mar 2008, at 11:34 PM, Bill Mohler wrote

Re: [Skim-app-users] How To suppress bouncing dock icon on pdf reload

2008-01-07 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Monday, January 07, 2008, at 11:27AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7 Jan 2008, at 8:21 PM, Jan Michael wrote: Hi Skim-Folks, I'm relatively new to Skim and use your wonderful application to preview my latex papers which I write in Textmate. The latex bundle in

Re: [Skim-app-users] Storing Skim files

2007-12-07 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Dec 7, 2007, at 7:17 AM, P Kishor wrote: Indeed, as others have pointed out, BibDesk is an excellent PDF organizer. There are other drawbacks with BibDesk... one, that it is only a PDF organizer, hence, is not good at other bits and bobs you might throw at it... for example, at one point

Re: [Skim-app-users] Upper limit to number of notes that can be tar'd with pdf

2007-11-08 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
Looks like you can create a sparse HFS+ disk image with hdiutil, attach it, then copy the directory to it, but it's more involved. That's what Skim does for making a disk image, from a quick look at the code. -- adam On Thursday, November 08, 2007, at 09:53AM, Bill Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Skim-app-users] Upper limit to number of notes that can be tar'd with pdf

2007-11-08 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Thursday, November 08, 2007, at 08:22AM, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's right, it's a limitation on tar, AFAIK. The limit is just a data size limit, so a single very long anchored note with a large image could already give problems. This limitation not documented

Re: [Skim-app-users] Upper limit to number of notes that can be tar'd with pdf

2007-11-08 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Thursday, November 08, 2007, at 09:43AM, Bill Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. Glad to know it's a known problem, and there might be fixes on the way. Since I'm interested in archiving my whole ~300GB collection of pdfs, is there an easy way in OSX to make a disk image from a folder in

Re: [Skim-app-users] Selecting and contextual menus issue

2007-11-01 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Thursday, November 01, 2007, at 09:14AM, Adam M. Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using Skim 0.9.3 (v15), I get the following behavior, which seems to me to be a bug. If I use the contextual menus, even when using the hand tool, the word that the mouse is over is selected. It stays

Re: [Skim-app-users] Selecting and contextual menus issue

2007-11-01 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
This only occurs in PDF Kit on 10.5, and is not limited to Intel. The likely purpose is to show you the scope of the dictionary/spotlight/google lookup since it's not guaranteed to be a word, but it's weird that it does this in the hand mode as well as text mode. -- adam On Thursday,

Re: [Skim-app-users] Full-screen control box

2007-10-13 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Oct 13, 2007, at 18:49, Gregory Cooksey wrote: On Oct 13, 2007, at 8:47 PM, Eliah Hecht wrote: Oh, I noticed that. I was wondering if there was a way to make it go away more-or-less permanently, so it doesn't show up again every time I move the mouse to make a note or something. I'd

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim crashes on file or preference opening

2007-09-21 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Sep 20, 2007, at 22:01, Peter Cowan wrote: Hi all, I've been absolutely delighted with Skim (v 0.91). However, recently I've been unable to use it because it crashes whenever I attempt to open a file. If I open the application with no file is launches fine, but any attempt to open a

Re: [Skim-app-users] Shell pipes to Skim

2007-08-29 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Wednesday, August 29, 2007, at 09:46AM, Ted Pavlic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the Skim wiki: http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Tips_and_Tricks#Reading_man_pages_in_Skim It states: = The following line can be used to show the man page for bash in Skim (of course this

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim crash while auto-updating

2007-08-23 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
it's different, I'm attaching the CrashReporter crash log to this message. --Ted Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Aug 21, 2007, at 07:08, Ted Pavlic wrote: As a PDF was being generated by LaTeX, Skim crashed. Attached is the crash report. was there anything in the console log

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim crash while auto-updating

2007-08-23 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Aug 23, 2007, at 07:44, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Skim.crash.log does show an explicit search taking place. The first item in the log does, but it's the last one that's relevant...and I see nothing search related there. It's just a standard window redraw. -- adam

Re: [Skim-app-users] Check for file changes doesn't work

2007-08-09 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Aug 9, 2007, at 02:43, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On 9 Aug 2007, at 6:37 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: Revert serves this purpose, and you can also use it from AppleScript. If there's a script involved in using PLplot, you could use osascript to reload. -- adam But Revert would

Re: [Skim-app-users] TeXShop and Skim

2007-07-18 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jul 18, 2007, at 01:52, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Probably. If you don't put it in one of /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/ bin (I think), then you need to put the whole path in Skim's prefs. You may replace the path to your home directory with $HOME (tilde doesn't work because the path

Re: [Skim-app-users] Feature Request: Click for next page in presentation mode

2007-07-07 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jul 7, 2007, at 09:23, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: On 7/7/07, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7 Jul 2007, at 6:06 PM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: Hi! Right now I'm preparing a presentation in LaTeX Beamer and while testing it I noticed an important difference to the fullscreen

Re: [Skim-app-users] Hitting tab to highlight editable fields inPDFforms

2007-06-19 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Tuesday, June 19, 2007, at 02:43PM, Édouard Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course. Care to pay french taxes? No :). Quick workaround: hit tab to change to the next field, then immediately hit shift-tab to actually focus the field so you can enter text. Weird, but it works. Adam

Re: [Skim-app-users] Searching pdfs

2007-06-17 Thread Adam R. Maxwell
On Jun 17, 2007, at 02:09, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Have you tried these things in Preview? If it doesn't work there, it is probably a PDFKit problem. We would like to know information there, so we may file a bug report with Apple. Perhaps if you could send such a PDF off line to me on