Re: [Skim-app-users] rotation bug

2011-01-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 6, 2011, at 2:18, Thomas Schneider wrote: Christiaan: No, the problem is that you won't accept my explanation No, I understood your explanation and it's not relevant. You didn't explain why N numbers are needed when obviously 1 (with 4 values) will clearly do to set the state of

Re: [Skim-app-users] rotation bug

2011-01-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Page rotation is not a view setting, it's part of the PDF data That's why this is not not a bug. Behavior is also consistent with e.g. Preview. So your expectation is wrong. It won't work properly for many reasons, the once I detailed are already sufficient. Quite frankly, I think this

Re: [Skim-app-users] rotation bug

2011-01-06 Thread tcb
Hi, hmm... well its the view settings we were discussing. The pdf file obviously contains orientation settings (Thomas made it clear they are not part of the discussion)- when viewing the pdf the user can choose the view settings, like the zoom/pan and page orientation. That's what the items in

Re: [Skim-app-users] rotation bug

2011-01-06 Thread Thomas Schneider
Justin: I'm confused. In your original note, you said that you set landscape mode by hand. Is that true? My program (lister) creates the image in landscape mode by using the PostScript rotate and moveto functions. As I understand this, that means that the PDF file doesn't mention the

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].