[Skim-app-users] Copying from the text layer of scanned documents, Skim vs. other pdf readers

I have five apps that I regularly use to read and manipulate pdfs. They are: Skim, PdfPen, PDF Expert, Acrobat Reader and Preview. Of these, I like the user interface of Skim the best, but the app that most reliably gives me usable text when I copy from the OCR layer is PdfPen. I don’t know if the

Re: [Skim-app-users] Font smoothing problems

Thank you. That was it. Never thought to even look for such a preference! Alan Harper On Jan 8, 2021 at 13:12:15, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > Ni, I meanAntialias text in the Skim Display preferences. > ___ > Skim-app-users mailing list >

Re: [Skim-app-users] Font smoothing problems

I think you mean “Use font smoothing when available” in the General System Preferences. Yes, this is checked on both computers. As I said, this appears to be only an issue for Skim, and I don’t think that there is a preference to turn off Font Smoothing for one application. Alan Harper On Jan

[Skim-app-users] Font smoothing problems

Hi I am using the same version of Skim (1.5.13) and the same version of MacOS (Catalina 10.15.7) on two computers, and I only get font smoothing on one of them. I see this difference only in Skim, not in other pdf-kit based readers (Preview, PDFPen, etc.) It is very distracting to try to read

[Skim-app-users] Font smoothing problems

Hi I am using the same version of Skim (1.5.13) and the same version of MacOS (Catalina 10.15.7) on two computers, and I only get font smoothing on one of them. I see this difference only in Skim, not in other pdf-kit based readers (Preview, PDFPen, etc.) It is very distracting to try to read

Re: [Skim-app-users] All old Skim annotations disappeared after SW update

I looked into this a few years back, and at that time Dropbox seemed to select which extended attributes it chose to synchronize. I talked to an engineer, who, while not being quite upfront about it, suggested that I shouldn’t rely on Dropbox to synchronize extended attributes in general.

Re: [Skim-app-users] PDFKit the cause of High Sierra woes for Skim? Any workarounds?

This isn’t a Skim issue, but I think it is worth pointing out the “bottom line” of the Ars Technica review of High Sierra: "I’ve been using High Sierra for months, and I’ll continue to use it. I think the vast majority of people who decide to upgrade on day one will be essentially fine. But if

Re: [Skim-app-users] Single page, zoom to fit, and arrow keys

I keep forgetting to say, yes, I am on 10.12.4. Thanks for the insight. -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org!

Re: [Skim-app-users] Single page, zoom to fit, and arrow keys

Hi Christiaan I was afraid that you were going to say what you said. Whatever is happening is complicated—I get slightly different behavior on different screens, different machines, and also depending on the aspect ratio of the pdf page displayed. It used to be that Zoom to Fit + Single Page +

[Skim-app-users] Single page, zoom to fit, and arrow keys

Something changed a few versions ago in Skim, and it has been annoying me. I’m finally reporting this (v. 1.4.28). It used to be that when you displayed a document as Single page, zoom to fit, there was a small narrow band of gray above and below each page, and the up/down arrow keys would always

Re: [Skim-app-users] Synchronizing skim notes via Dropbox

, but I just need to get work done, using multiple computers. A On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Apr 28, 2016, at 20:26, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Apr 28, 2016, at 17:33, Alan Harper (

[Skim-app-users] Synchronizing skim notes via Dropbox

Dropbox does not synchronize the extended attributes that Skim uses to store notes. I think that with a small modification to Skim, it would be easy to use .skim files to maintain synchronized notes across computers. When I add a pdf to Computer A and then make some notes (and have "Automatically

Re: [Skim-app-users] Questions about Skim Notes

There are lots of clipboard managers for Macintosh that you can use to massage the clipboard to do things like remove hyphens (if you are copying text out of a pdf and pasting into a note). I use Keyboard Maestro. On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: >

[Skim-app-users] Search box

I know that if wishes were horses, beggars would ride, but... I usually want to make my window as narrow as possible so as to leave as much screen real estate as possible for other windows. I almost always use the Search PDF function and not the Find function because the context shown is makes

Re: [Skim-app-users] Preserving PDFs As Editable

If someone can address D. Stall's questions, it would also be good to get advice about maintaining Spotlight indexing. I have never been able to clearly understand which edits of a pdf are picked up by Spotlight and which are not. I think that flattened pdfs are searchable, but after

Re: [Skim-app-users] Preserving PDFs As Editable

Thank you, Christiaan. Perhaps .skim notes are the best way to preserve editability, and searchability, and also future-proof my notes so that they will be accessible when everything I now know is different. A On Jan 22, 2013, at 13:37 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: Spotlight of PDFs is already

Re: [Skim-app-users] What version of PDF does Skim support

I have had lots of problems with various pdfs on Macintosh, and AFAIK, they all share the same underlying code, with the exception of Adobe's products. I have Acrobat, and what I do is pass the offending pdf thru Acrobat (doing a Save As... or whatever they call it), and then it usually works