Re: [Skim-app-users] Skimnotes app and Unicode

2024-04-12 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 12. Apr 2024, at 14:16, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Regarding Unicode, it appears that Skim behaves unlike every other PDF reader > I've got, e.g., Acrobat, PDF Expert, Foxit Reader, and Preview. Most of these have their own PDF engines, so they can do whatever they want. I would assume

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim presentation with Zoom

2020-10-06 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 2020-10-06, at 19:54, Roussanka Loukanova wrote: > > But one can't import pdf into Keynote. https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/freesoftware/pdftokeynote.html (With modern versions of Keynote, it works best for me if I set it to generate Keynote ’03 format — Keynote will then up-convert that to

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim Presentation with Zoom

2020-06-19 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 2020-06-19, at 11:25, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > If you set a hidden preference you can also resize the presentation window, > which could make sharing the Presentation with Zoom even easier. This. I don’t use Zoom, but with the other web conferencing systems I use I like that I can

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim 1.5.10

2020-06-18 Thread Carsten Bormann
Great new features! I really like the “laser” cursor, which looks very good. And I like consistently getting rid of things using ESC (now that Macs again have ESC keys :-). On 2020-06-18, at 15:59, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > Cf the Wiki Sure. I think Thomas and I come from the observation

Re: [Skim-app-users] laser-like dot for Skim

2020-06-12 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 2020-06-12, at 19:48, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > I could implement that using a hidden preference. I am really hesitant to > have this by default. Many other presentation systems have a keyboard shortcut for showing or hiding the “pointer”. (E.g., in Keynote, that’s the C key.) It is

Re: [Skim-app-users] why is skim opening skype/facetime/etc?

2020-05-24 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 2020-05-25, at 02:02, Steven Scott wrote: > > RFC 3966 (which defines tel: URIs) says: 5.1.1. Separators in Phone Numbers […] However, even though ITU-T E.123 [E.123] recommends the use of space characters as visual separators in printed telephone numbers, "tel" URIs MUST NOT

Re: [Skim-app-users] why is skim opening skype/facetime/etc?

2020-05-24 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 2020-05-24, at 23:58, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> Try >> open tel:16943 >> >> from the command line; you’ll get FaceTime (and would have got “Skype for >> Business” before). >> >> Grüße, Carsten >> > > That looks like a URN. It does look a bit like a URN (it does not have slashes

Re: [Skim-app-users] why is skim opening skype/facetime/etc?

2020-05-24 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 2020-05-24, at 23:32, Steven Scott wrote: > > When I click on that table in Skim "Skype for Business" opens up. I thought > it might be MS spam, so I deleted Skype for Business. Now Skim opens > "Facetime" when I click that column. I tried opening the same document in > Preview, and

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

2020-02-17 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 2020-02-17, at 15:29, Heli Helanummi-COle wrote: > > Thank you Carsten. Does this mean that all the prior annotations have been > lost in the pdfs? Might be. Then you can’t have done much in Dropbox before all that got lost… > I have kept these in pdf format in Dropbox successfully for

Re: [Skim-app-users] How can I increase the "Open Recent" count please ?

2016-01-06 Thread Carsten Bormann
System preferences, General, "Recent Items". The highest I could put there via the prefpane was 50, but a "defaults write" with the right key might be able to go beyond that. Grüße, Carsten Christiaan Hofman wrote: > You can’t, this is managed by the system.

Re: [Skim-app-users] Fwd: scrolling with up/down keys has changed direction?!

2014-10-18 Thread Carsten Bormann
On 18 Oct 2014, at 18:57, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: Really? Really. Within a page, the direction is correct, but between pages, it goes in the wrong direction. So, if you are at the top half of page 2, page down takes you to the bottom half of page 2, then to the top half

[Skim-app-users] Removing (mitigating) double spacing

2014-10-09 Thread Carsten Bormann
I am a huge fan of Skim’s auto-crop feature. This unique feature really helps with looking at PDFs that exhibit generous margins. However, it does not help with vertical whitespace internal to the page. The most obvious case is double-spacing (incredibly, people still do that). But also a page