Re: [Skim-app-users] Version 1.4.13 Full Screen View

2015-09-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
> On Sep 10, 2015, at 0:49, mykle hoban wrote: > > Howdy all- > > I apologize if this is a setting I'm missing: I wasn't able to see anything > obvious after looking around in the app. The fullscreen behavior has changed > a bit since upgrading to 1.4.13, and I'm wondering

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim does not recognize highlighted text

2015-07-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 9, 2015, at 7:05, Bin Yin yinb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am encountering a problem with some PDF documents which were converted from MOBI format. The PDFs are searchable - I can select text and highlight/underline it from Skim. But the problem is that those highlighted texts

Re: [Skim-app-users] How to get my opened files back

2015-07-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 2, 2015, at 16:15, Piet van Oostrum wrote: I lost my open files collection in Skim (meaning now it opens without any files open). How can I get my files back? I tried to restore the preference files from my Time machine but it doesn't help. I also checked Reopen last open files at

Re: [Skim-app-users] How to get my opened files back

2015-07-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 2, 2015, at 17:40, Piet van Oostrum wrote: Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jul 2, 2015, at 16:15, Piet van Oostrum wrote: I lost my open files collection in Skim (meaning now it opens without any files open). How can I get my files back? I tried to restore the preference

Re: [Skim-app-users] How to get my opened files back

2015-07-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 2, 2015, at 23:11, Piet van Oostrum wrote: Christiaan Hofman wrote: Since 10.9 preferences are saved a cache on the system. (During a run this will be in memory, not in a file, so it is much faster to access.) The files in Library/Preferences are really only a backup, so

Re: [Skim-app-users] Possible bug in Skim 1.4.12 re passworded PDF background color

2015-06-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 27, 2015, at 16:32, James Harrison wrote: When I open any passworded PDF the background color of the document is the same as the window background, which can make the document difficult to read if you’re using a gray window background. If I open the display preferences and tweak

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim 1.4.12

2015-06-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 16, 2015, at 6:30, Richard Stanton wrote: Message: 2 Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:58:44 +0200 From: Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com Subject: [Skim-app-users] Skim 1.4.12 To: For general discussion about using Skim skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net, skim-app-annou

[Skim-app-announce] Skim 1.4.12

2015-06-15 Thread Christiaan Hofman
A new version of Skim is available for download at http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ or using the built-in updater. Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim does not work with El Capitan

2015-06-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 14, 2015, at 13:44, Artemio González López wrote: On Jun 14, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 14, 2015, at 0:23, Artemio González López wrote: Hi, Christiaan, As it usually happens when a new system version is launched, Skim does not work

Re: [Skim-app-users] Keyboard shortcut for Highlight text?

2015-06-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 12, 2015, at 21:09, Richard Paris wrote: Hi, i’m a new Skim user. Lovin’ it! Having selected some text…is there a keyboard shortcut that will quickly allow me to highlight the selected text without having to use the mouse to select highlight from the toolbar? Keyboard shortcut

Re: [Skim-app-users] Save location and SourceForge

2015-06-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 10, 2015, at 13:48, Yeung Saiwing wrote: Hi all, I have two questions. 1) Is there a way to set the default directory for Save As... so that it defaults to the directory used in the last Save As...? Very often I open a few pdf's from mail or browser in Skim and want to save

Re: [Skim-app-users] Page background

2015-06-01 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 1, 2015, at 20:21, Fran Calcraft wrote: Christiaan Hofman wrote: On May 30, 2015, at 21:21, Fran Calcraft wrote: Christiaan Hofman wrote: On May 28, 2015, at 20:02, Fran Calcraft wrote: The instructions in the Skim Wiki for changing the page background colour do not make

Re: [Skim-app-users] Page background

2015-05-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 30, 2015, at 21:21, Fran Calcraft wrote: Christiaan Hofman wrote: On May 28, 2015, at 20:02, Fran Calcraft wrote: The instructions in the Skim Wiki for changing the page background colour do not make much sense to me. This is the instruction: Key : SKPageBackgroundColor

Re: [Skim-app-users] Search box

2015-05-31 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 31, 2015, at 20:13, Alan Harper (lists) wrote: 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

Re: [Skim-app-users] Page background

2015-05-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 28, 2015, at 20:02, Fran Calcraft wrote: The instructions in the Skim Wiki for changing the page background colour do not make much sense to me. This is the instruction: Key : SKPageBackgroundColor Values : -data, archived color, or an -array of -float Explanation : Set this to

Re: [Skim-app-users] recent file loading

2015-05-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 23, 2015, at 3:28, Ivan Werning wrote: I am experiencing some new behavior related to previously opened files. Here is an example: Launch Skim. Open PDF file A. Quit Skim (CMD Q) Double click another PDF file B. Skim launches and displays file A in the foreground; with file B

Re: [Skim-app-users] search disables after export save

2015-05-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 20, 2015, at 11:30, Josh Carney wrote: Hello, My apologies in advance if this has been covered before. I didn't find it discussed in my forum search under the terms I selected. I have at least one PDF (an article downloaded from project muse) that becomes unsearchable after I

Re: [Skim-app-users] Highlight height

2015-05-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
. I've experienced the problem with very small highlights especially in scanned and OCR'ed pdfs. So I guess it has to do with the PDF. Nonetheless, I agree that it would be nice to have the highlights a little larger in general. On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof

Re: [Skim-app-users] Export Template for Notes as Text?

2015-05-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On May 8, 2015, at 23:04, Peter Salazar wrote: Hi there, Does anyone have an export template for exporting notes as text? I'm looking at the custom templates listed at the Wiki here... http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/wiki/Tips_and_Tricks

Re: [Skim-app-users] Shortcut keystrokes could be more intuitive

2015-05-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 9, 2015, at 14:24, Rob MacLeod wrote: HI Skim-ers, While I am asking about Skim features (and using it a lot for end of semester grading), is there a way to reprogram the keyboard shortcuts? I love to jump between highlighting, striking out text, adding a text note and keyboard

Re: [Skim-app-users] Export Template for Notes as Text?

2015-05-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 8, 2015, at 23:04, Peter Salazar wrote: Hi there, Does anyone have an export template for exporting notes as text? I'm looking at the custom templates listed at the Wiki here... http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/wiki/Tips_and_Tricks/#export-templates ...but the Notes as Markdown

Re: [Skim-app-users] Why the unconventional file storage scheme?

2015-05-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On May 8, 2015, at 15:12, Rob MacLeod wrote: Hi, I have used Skim off and on for some years, just updated to the new version, and appreciate a great deal of what the program offers. I drift back to Preview at times but then get frustrated

Re: [Skim-app-users] Selecting multiple bits of text to keep in the same note

2015-05-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 5, 2015, at 8:52, Daniel Rocha e Silva wrote: Hi, I've tried to find information on this online, unsuccessfully though. I want to select multiple parts of the text in a pdf and highlight or underscore those, thereby creating a single note with all of them. Does anyone know how

Re: [Skim-app-users] Highlight height

2015-05-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 4, 2015, at 11:37, Charles Lowe wrote: Is there any way to change the height of text highlighting? I've attached screenshots of the same PDF as annotated in Preview, Skim, and Adobe Reader DC to show what I mean. Thanks, Charles No, there is no way to change this. The highlight

Re: [Skim-app-users] Highlight height

2015-05-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
). Cheers, Charles It cannot use a different version, because it uses the exact same executable, which is part of the system. So I doubt it really is different. Christiaan On May 4, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On May 4, 2015, at 11:37, Charles Lowe

Re: [Skim-app-users] Page-by-page scroll direction

2015-04-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Apr 22, 2015, at 12:52, Ionuț G. Stan wrote: Hi, I've tried to report this as a bug through the link[0] posted on the project's homepage[1], but it gives a 404. So, I'm trying this mailing list. The problem appears when scrolling with three fingers, which Skim interprets it as

Re: [Skim-app-users] Note Opacity, Applescript, Multiple Colours, Freehand Note Tool

2015-04-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Apr 21, 2015, at 1:15, Janiv Gabbai-Müller wrote: Hello, I'm working with some scanned texts, and wish to highlight a phrase every now and then. The texts are not OCR-ed, so I can't use the highlight tool; instead, I use the freehand note tool, with 30% opacity. The trouble is, I need

Re: [Skim-app-users] pgup/pgdown reversed in non-continuous page mode

2015-04-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Apr 14, 2015, at 18:19, Marc H. Scholl wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 18:00h, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote (with possible deletions): On Apr 14, 2015, at 16:52, Marc H. Scholl wrote: … same for me: OSX 10.10.3, Skim 1.4.11, and the problem is PageUp PageDown

Re: [Skim-app-users] pgup/pgdown reversed in non-continuous page mode

2015-04-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Apr 14, 2015, at 16:13, Richard Stanton wrote: From: Justin C. Walker jus...@mac.com On Apr 13, 2015, at 19:58 , clark richards wrote: Tried to follow the submit bug link, but it 404'd. Just installed the update to version 1.4.11 (85), and now the pgup/pgdown keys are reversed when

Re: [Skim-app-users] pgup/pgdown reversed in non-continuous page mode

2015-04-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Bornheim jjbornh...@gmail.com wrote (with possible deletions): On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 14, 2015, at 16:13, Richard Stanton wrote: From: Justin C. Walker jus...@mac.com On Apr 13, 2015, at 19:58 , clark richards wrote: Tried

[Skim-app-announce] Skim 1.4.11

2015-04-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
A new version of Skim is available for download at http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ or using the built-in updater. Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at

Re: [Skim-app-users] Text note color is not saved in exported document

2015-02-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Feb 4, 2015, at 22:50, Carolyn Hintlian wrote: With Skim, I used to annotate PDFs with text notes, then export the document to a document file on my mac; when I later opened the document, the text note was right there: opaque yellow note with the text I added. Sometime within the

Re: [Skim-app-users] Text note color is not saved in exported document

2015-02-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
about this. Christiaan On Feb 4, 2015, at 4:57 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 4, 2015, at 22:50, Carolyn Hintlian wrote: With Skim, I used to annotate PDFs with text notes, then export the document to a document file on my mac; when I later opened the document

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

2015-01-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 24, 2014, at 5:54, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: On Oct 22, 2014, at 15:24 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse e...@lisse.na wrote: I have noticed same behaviour within the latest TeXShop, which has an internal PDF reader, presumably PDFKit. It's been discussed in various places:

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim 1.4.10 - up and down arrows stop working

2015-01-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
...@alanharper.com (for all bulk mail please) On November 29, 2014 at 14:49:21, Christiaan Hofman (cmhof...@gmail.com) wrote: On Nov 29, 2014, at 23:29, Richard Stanton wrote: Upgrading to Skim 1.4.10 has corrected the problem with OS X Yosemite where the up and down arrows were reversed

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

2015-01-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 6, 2015, at 9:29, Schneider wrote: Adam: Speaking as the guy who originally added kqueue support to Skim for watching files and reloading when they changed, it's not a matter of desire; it's technically impossible to fix. Ahh. Why is that? Is it that it is impossible to know

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

2015-01-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
tell block works correctly. My second one doesn’t. I have played with the second one for hours. Thanks. Bruce From: Christiaan Hofman Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎January‎ ‎5‎, ‎2015 ‎3‎:‎50‎ ‎PM To: skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net On Jan 6, 2015, at 0:34, br...@rhodewalt.com br

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

2015-01-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 6, 2015, at 0:34, br...@rhodewalt.com br...@rhodewalt.com wrote: I'm a new Skim user AND a newbie AppleScript user (~10 hours research and practice). I have lots of experience with JavaScript and various scripting languages (Windows, Unix, VMS). I'm reaching out to experienced users of

Re: [Skim-app-users] Rendering bug upon hiding content pane

2015-01-02 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jan 2, 2015, at 8:32, José Miguel Figueroa-O'Farrill wrote: Hi, Using Skim Version 1.4.10 (84) on Mac OS 10.10.1 (14B25), I’ve noticed a rendering bug which I can reproduce as follows: 1. I have a skim window with a document in, say, single page continuous mode and the content pane

Re: [Skim-app-users] Converting from Skim to regular PDF annotations

2014-12-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 29, 2014, at 20:50, David O'Shaughnessy wrote: Hi, I have a large number of PDFs with notes taken using Skim (for academic work). I am planning to move away from Mac OS X and back to Linux, and I wonder if there is any way that I can convert my Skim notes to regular PDF comments so

Re: [Skim-app-users] Variables defined by Skim for reverse sync

2014-12-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
at 6:51 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: I know nothing about Vim, so I also have no idea what a server means in this context. You should admit that this is not a natural situation, because usually text editors just have files opened. I guess we could also replace

Re: [Skim-app-users] Variables defined by Skim for reverse sync

2014-12-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 8, 2014, at 6:19, Dominique Orban wrote: I've got reverse sync working between Vim (in the terminal) and Skim, but it only seems to work when my document consists of a single file. I know about http://molecularclouds.blogspot.ca/2012/01/latex-vim-skim.html (though I haven't tested

Re: [Skim-app-users] Can I set the selection colour?

2014-12-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 8, 2014, at 12:41, Hans List wrote: I'm working with two screens. On my left screen I have a PDF open in which the current paragraph is highlighted. I work on my right screen, so this screen has focus. The highlighting colour on the left screen is grey (because it has no focus,

Re: [Skim-app-users] Variables defined by Skim for reverse sync

2014-12-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
of the PDF file. Is there no way to get that information? Dominique On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2014, at 6:19, Dominique Orban wrote: I've got reverse sync working between Vim (in the terminal) and Skim, but it only seems to work

Re: [Skim-app-users] Variables defined by Skim for reverse sync

2014-12-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
TeX documents typeset in multiple Skim windows. I imagine the same issue must come up with other editors. Thanks. Dominique On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: No, as I said, there are no other variables. Still, why would this be relevant

Re: [Skim-app-users] Need simple script to find text in PDF

2014-12-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Dec 7, 2014, at 18:33, Hans LIST wrote: Thanks for looking into this. Alas, I still get: error Skim got an error: Some parameter is missing for find text. number -1701 Are you sure you have the script correct? The one given works for me. Perhaps you have no text on the clipboard?

Re: [Skim-app-users] Click to write?

2014-11-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 21, 2014, at 12:08, Sebastian Kupfer wrote: hello, is it possible to simply click somewhere to begin writing, like it was in Preview 7.0? The most recent version of Preview is either bugged or crippled and now you have to click on a button which creates a textbox which you can

Re: [Skim-app-users] Highlighting + Colours - Yosemite

2014-11-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 18, 2014, at 15:44, Nicola Carboni wrote: Hi everyone, I have a problem with Skim and Yosemite. I cannot change the colour of the highlights text. Before updating to the new system was perfect, so I assume the problem it is connected with Yosemite. Someone else has the same

Re: [Skim-app-users] Page Up / Page Down Keys

2014-11-14 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 14, 2014, at 20:43, ivo welch wrote: OSX 10.10 Yosemite: Apparently, my page up and page down keys are reversed in Skim. Skim is not the only app that seems to be wrong, so I suspect that this is a change in the Apple API. Still, is this likely to be fixed soon? /iaw

Re: [Skim-app-users] Like to have

2014-11-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 11, 2014, at 8:02, Stephen Ng wrote: Hi! everyone, I've been using Skim for a short while and I really think its way ahead of a few other apps including Adobe Reader. However, it's short on a few items that I was wondering of I had missed or if not then should be on a list of

Re: [Skim-app-users] Special Characters

2014-11-11 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 11, 2014, at 22:04, Nicole Busch wrote: Hi, I apologize if I have missed something and I think I have all updates but I can't seem to insert special characters anymore. I used to create a text box and would double click on my choice of characters and it would appear. I was just

Re: [Skim-app-users] Auto Size All notes in note pane upon opening PDF

2014-11-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 10, 2014, at 18:34, Jan Jakob Bornheim wrote: After using Skim for more than half a decade, I just now realised I can select “Auto Size All” in the Notes pane to to increase the row size to fit the notes (the small row size always bugged me, but I never tried doing anything about

Re: [Skim-app-users] Auto Size All notes in note pane upon opening PDF

2014-11-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 10, 2014, at 22:51, Jan Jakob Bornheim wrote: On 10 Nov, 2014, at 22:46, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 10, 2014, at 18:34, Jan Jakob Bornheim wrote: After using Skim for more than half a decade, I just now realised I can select “Auto Size All

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim Script Menu in Dark Mode

2014-11-06 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:07, Jan Jakob Bornheim wrote: Quick question: Yosemite introduced dark mode, in which the dock and the menu bar turn black. In every single application I have, this means that the AppleScript menu item (which uses a symbol rather than text) becomes illegible because it

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

2014-11-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 21, 2014, at 14:15, Jan Jakob Bornheim wrote: I’m not sure if this was the case before, but since I upgraded to Yosemite (yesterday) if I use the up/down keys to scroll through a PDF document in “Single Page” display mode, the direction of motion has reversed: ‘up' increases page

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

2014-11-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Nov 4, 2014, at 11:42, Jan Jakob Bornheim wrote: On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 21, 2014, at 14:15, Jan Jakob Bornheim wrote: I’m not sure if this was the case before, but since I upgraded to Yosemite (yesterday) if I use the up

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim on Yosemite

2014-11-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 28, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 28, 2014, at 3:42, Stephen Ng wrote: Hi! I noticed after installing Yosemite, that whenever I have closed a window to a document in Skim, and if I wish to delete that document, the system reports to me

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim on Yosemite

2014-10-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 28, 2014, at 3:42, Stephen Ng wrote: Hi! I noticed after installing Yosemite, that whenever I have closed a window to a document in Skim, and if I wish to delete that document, the system reports to me that the file is in use. I used lsof to check this and it appears that Skim

Re: [Skim-app-users] Favorite Colors in Toolbar: Doesn't change colors

2014-10-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 22, 2014, at 11:29, Jan Jakob Bornheim wrote: On 22 Oct, 2014, at 01:18, Shane Ebert s_h_a_...@mac.com wrote: I use a variety of colors for highlighting text and so have the Favorite Colors item in my toolbar for easy access, but since upgrading to Yosemite, clicking on a given

Re: [Skim-app-users] Favorite Colors in Toolbar: Doesn't change colors

2014-10-22 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 22, 2014, at 12:37, Jan Jakob Bornheim wrote: On 22 Oct, 2014, at 12:23, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 22, 2014, at 12:00, Jan Jakob Bornheim wrote: On 22 Oct, 2014, at 11:57, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 22, 2014, at 11:29, Jan

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

2014-10-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I'd say it does not make much of an indication as to were the problem is. But it does show where the problem is not. And that is in Skim itself. The text is displayed by PDFKit. The only thing that we do is change the image interpolation, which should not affect the font rendering and

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

2014-10-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 20, 2014, at 16:43, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: 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

Re: [Skim-app-users] 1.4.9 Presentation Mode in OS X 10.10

2014-10-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 19, 2014, at 23:52, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: When presenting a PDF which worked normally in same on 10.9.5 I find that I now have to use the Up Arrow in order to page forward and the Down Arrow to page backwards. Is this known and/or is there something you guys can do to reverse

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

2014-10-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 18, 2014, at 13:17, Jan Jakob Bornheim wrote: I’m not sure if this was the case before, but since I upgraded to Yosemite (yesterday) if I use the up/down keys to scroll through a PDF document in “Single Page” display mode, the direction of motion has reversed: ‘up' increases page

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

2014-10-18 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 18, 2014, at 20:09, Carsten Bormann wrote: 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

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

2014-10-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 9, 2014, at 14:43, Carsten Bormann wrote: 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

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

2014-10-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 7, 2014, at 1:50, Alan Harper Bulk wrote: Hi I thought I read that Dropbox was going to support the synchronization of skim notes. I am finding that it does not. I have made a number of test cases, and I find that while Dropbox does synchronize some of the Macintosh file system

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

2014-10-07 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Oct 7, 2014, at 18:41, Alan Harper Bulk wrote: Thank you, Jan, for a complete solution. I am not planning on implementing it now, as I can use synchronization via .skim files by hand for my current needs. But it looks like a very robust solution to this problem. Has anyone contacted

Re: [Skim-app-users] convert notes

2014-09-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
...@lisse.na wrote: That's not what she means, She annotates a scanned PDF, and it works not all the time, unpredictably. el On 2014-09-28, 00:36 , Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Sep 28, 2014, at 0:02, Nicole Busch wrote: Hi, the students are handwriting on an assignment

Re: [Skim-app-users] PDF Meta-data in export template?

2014-09-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 28, 2014, at 10:23, Henrik Bøgh wrote: After getting some help to find the documentation for exporting templates, I'm still struggeling a bit with reaching my intended goal for a template. Ideally I would like a way to include the information contained in a PDF-file's

Re: [Skim-app-users] convert notes

2014-09-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 27, 2014, at 7:09, Nicole Busch wrote: Hi, I use Skim to mark assignments that student submit online. I have found that every so often I will mark an assignment, export it with embedded notes, and save it. And when the student or I look at it we can't see the notes. I have

Re: [Skim-app-users] convert notes

2014-09-27 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 27, 2014, at 7:09, Nicole Busch wrote: Hi, I use Skim to mark assignments that student submit online. I have found that every so often I will mark an assignment, export it with embedded notes, and save it. And when

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about script to change color of notes

2014-09-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 19, 2014, at 22:05, Jan David Hauck wrote: Hello list, I recently came across an issue when using the Set color of notes script which I downloaded from the wiki. It works fine when I have only one pdf open. However, when I have multiple pdf's open no matter if I chose Front or

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about script to change color of notes

2014-09-19 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 19, 2014, at 23:43, Jan David Hauck wrote: Now it tells me: error The variable theAnswer is not defined. number -2753 from theAnswer On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 19, 2014, at 22:05, Jan David Hauck wrote: Hello list, I

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim inserts note on hidden page. Is this intentional?

2014-09-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
ignore it? Should I try to send you the screen shots? And my second request—any response? Thanks -- Alan Harper (mailing lists) From: Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com Reply: For general discussion about using Skim skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: September 8, 2014 at 13

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim inserts note on hidden page. Is this intentional?

2014-09-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
adverse effects. Christiaan From: Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com Reply: For general discussion about using Skim skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: September 8, 2014 at 13:20 To: For general discussion about using Skim skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Skim

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim inserts note on hidden page. Is this intentional?

2014-09-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Sep 8, 2014, at 20:46, Alan Harper Bulk wrote: I have been confused by Skim for a while, and I finally figured out one of the sources of my confusion. Many times, if I am looking at a page in Skim and I type cmd-N, a note is created on quite a different page. However, if I type cmd-V,

Re: [Skim-app-users] How to change the color of the font(NOT the note) ?

2014-08-23 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 23, 2014, at 13:53, 徐泽锋 wrote: Hi,everyone. First I will give you a picture: http://i.imgur.com/0eElUbl.png I want to change the color of the font which is NOT the note when I read the PDF. I find a similar answer in google: defaults write -app skim SKPageBackgroundColor

Re: [Skim-app-users] how to highlight whole words only?

2014-08-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 13, 2014, at 23:41, Peter Salazar wrote: Hello, Using the highlighting feature, i.e. Tools Note Type Highlight, is there a way to direct Skim to select whole words only? I never have a need to highlight only half a word, and I don't want to spend time jiggling my mouse to

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim notes have no spaces between words

2014-08-12 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 11, 2014, at 20:40, Harper Lists, Alan wrote: Paula. I have always found this to be the case—Acrobat and Acrobat Reader can find word breaks that Skim and other apps that use Apple's software cannot. Try opening your pdfs in Preview and seeing if you get the same behavior as in

Re: [Skim-app-users] Spacebar advancing to the next page

2014-08-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 8, 2014, at 9:31, Yeung Saiwing wrote: Hi all, (Sorry if I don't describe this very clearly) In the current version of Skim, if you are reading a document in which each page is taller than the screen height, and you press the spacebar to advance, and you are at the top of a

Re: [Skim-app-users] Spacebar advancing to the next page

2014-08-08 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Aug 8, 2014, at 11:07, Yeung Saiwing wrote: You cannot change this behavior. This is a function of Apple's PDFKit, which is used by Skim to provide the PDF display. So it wasn't changed in any version of Skim, but rather in a version of Mac OSX. Thanks, Christiaan. I guess it

Re: [Skim-app-users] software update - reopen last files?

2014-07-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 28, 2014, at 22:41, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jul 28, 2014, at 20:15, Gordon Smith wrote: Hello - I am in the middle of reading many PDF files and am prompted for an update. If I update the software, will Skim automatically restart? If so, will the currently open files

Re: [Skim-app-users] software update - reopen last files?

2014-07-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jul 28, 2014, at 20:15, Gordon Smith wrote: Hello - I am in the middle of reading many PDF files and am prompted for an update. If I update the software, will Skim automatically restart? If so, will the currently open files be reopened? Thank you for your time. Yes and yes.

Re: [Skim-app-users] question script

2014-06-21 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 21, 2014, at 22:29, Jan David Hauck wrote: Hello list, I'm trying to find an Apple script called Highlight Occurrences of Text (assuming it allows me to automatically highlight multiple instances of a given search term) but I can't find it. For some reason I'm too stupid even to

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim still broken in Yosemite [fixed!]

2014-06-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 6, 2014, at 20:58, Artemio González López wrote: On 06 Jun 2014, at 7:13 pm, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: 've put a new test version at the same place that may or may not change this problem. Could you test it out? thanks Christiaan Dear Christian, I am

[Skim-app-announce] Skim 1.4.9

2014-06-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman
A new version of Skim is available for download at http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ or using the built-in updater. Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim broken in Yosemite

2014-06-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, at 0:30, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Hi, Christian, Sorry to bother you again, but the version of Skim I get at the link http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/Skim.dmg is 1.4.8 (82), created today at 12:47 AM, with 9,874,542 bytes (11.7 MB on disk). But it still crashes in the same way when

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim broken in Yosemite

2014-06-05 Thread Christiaan Hofman
, at 0:30, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Hi, Christian, Sorry to bother you again, but the version of Skim I get at the link http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/Skim.dmg is 1.4.8 (82), created today at 12:47 AM, with 9,874,542 bytes (11.7 MB on disk). But it still crashes in the same way when

Re: [Skim-app-users] Problem: exporting highlights

2014-06-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 4, 2014, at 12:29, Nicola Carboni wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to export my highlights in a text file, and I have some problems doing so. I usually highlight my papers on the iPad (PDF Expert), then sync with dropbox. I then open them with Skim, convert the notes, and then

Re: [Skim-app-users] Problem: exporting highlights

2014-06-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
. Or you could set it manually if there aren't too many. Christiaan On 04 Jun 2014, at 13:59, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 4, 2014, at 12:29, Nicola Carboni wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to export my highlights in a text file, and I have some problems doing so

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim broken in Yosemite

2014-06-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 4, 2014, at 14:41, Artemio González López wrote: On Jun 4, 2014, at 1:03 PM, skim-app-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: On Jun 3, 2014, at 20:39, Artemio Gonz?lez L?pez wrote: I have tested Skim with the newly released Yosemite Developer Preview 1, and unfortunately it

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim-app-users Digest, Vol 86, Issue 3

2014-06-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Are you sure this was with the test version? I cannot believe thus, as this particular call is not used anymore in the code. Christiaan On Jun 5, 2014, at 0:00, Artemio González López wrote: On Jun 4, 2014, at 11:12 PM, skim-app-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: also put a

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim-app-users Digest, Vol 86, Issue 3

2014-06-04 Thread Christiaan Hofman
Sorry, apparently this is also used by some third party code. I fixed this in the test version, at the same location. Christiaan On Jun 5, 2014, at 0:30, Christiaan Hofman wrote: Are you sure this was with the test version? I cannot believe thus, as this particular call is not used anymore

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim broken in Yosemite

2014-06-03 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Jun 3, 2014, at 20:39, Artemio González López wrote: I have tested Skim with the newly released Yosemite Developer Preview 1, and unfortunately it doesn't work. More precisely, the program launches OK, but as soon as you try to open a window (say, from the recent files menu) it crashes

Re: [Skim-app-users] I can't open a specific pdf-file anymore after installing applescripts

2014-05-30 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 30, 2014, at 21:22, Sebastian Khalil Zada wrote: Hello, I really need your help! I was working on two pdf-files using Skim to highlight a lot of text parts. Then I was looking for a possibility to change the color of all highlights all at once and finally found these

Re: [Skim-app-users] How do I change the default saving path of Skim?

2014-05-29 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 29, 2014, at 7:12, Qian Hu wrote: Hello, How do I change the default saving path of Skim? It seems to be changed to the last path I used for a while, and then was changed to `~/Downloads` again? (How could it be possible? Automatically?) And there is no option to set the

Re: [Skim-app-users] How to change the default text size in notes?

2014-05-13 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On May 14, 2014, at 0:49, Qian Hu wrote: Hello, How to change the default text size in notes? I have done searching in archives but couldn't find answers. Thank you! Best regards, Henry Go to the Notes preferences, click the font control for the note type, and change the font

Re: [Skim-app-users] Copying after highlighting

2014-04-28 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Apr 28, 2014, at 4:55, Jan David Hauck wrote: Hello list, as a frequent skim user for quite a while I have come across one issue. While reading a paper I find myself often highlighting text and then changing the tool to select the same text and copy it for into my research notes, a

Re: [Skim-app-users] textedit:// links generated by Lilypond open in Lilypad

2014-04-10 Thread Christiaan Hofman
On Apr 10, 2014, at 17:34, Nathanael Farley wrote: Hi all, I've been starting to use Lilypond on my Mac and using Skim. When I click on a note (actually a textedit:// link), Skim opens up the file in Lilypad instead of my preferred text editor (Emacs). The command `open test.ly` in the

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