[Skim-app-users] broken parser from space in name

In my recent posting I included this url: http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/manual/Skim Help_38.html#SEC97 but on the posting page: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=E7F7D63D-0933-4FA4-B889-6E7B2727C48A%40fred.netforum_name=skim-app-users the link is broken because the

[Skim-app-users] rotation bug

I am using Skim to watch a PDF using the refresh mechanism. Another program creates the PDF and replaces it and Skim shows the changes so I don't have to do any mousing. (Automation is provided by my atchange program, http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/atchange.html.) This works beautifully.

Re: [Skim-app-users] rotation bug

Adam: Thanks for responding. Why not use the revert command through AppleScript or osascript to reload the file? That is safer and more efficient than having Skim watch it for changes. I suspect it's also possible to get/set the rotation in that same script, but Christiaan would know for

Re: [Skim-app-users] rotation bug

Adam: Thanks for responding. Why not use the revert command through AppleScript or osascript to reload the file? That is safer and more efficient than having Skim watch it for changes. I suspect it's also possible to get/set the rotation in that same script, but Christiaan would know for

Re: [Skim-app-users] rotation bug

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 how the entire document is viewed. I am not saying

Re: [Skim-app-users] rotation bug

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

Andreas: If I may try to sum up as clearly as possible: Page orientation is only stored in the individual page objects, all different instantiations (I hope I got this right). When you do a refresh, all these objects are discarded and the information is lost (unless you would first save it).

Re: [Skim-app-users] rotation bug

Adam: I believe you overlooked Tools-Rotate Page Left and Tools-Rotate Page Right on the main menu. As in most applications, toolbar buttons are only a subset of all possible actions. Thanks much for taking the time to point out that, I had indeed missed it. From what you said, all the

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

Michael: I have not been able to locate any information in the SKIM user guide documentation that explains how SKIM can be used to view PDF files without saving them. I have SKIM set up as my default PDF reader on my MacBook, but I find that whenever SKIM opens (i.e., when I click on a PDF

Re: [Skim-app-users] displayline for keeping Skim.app to the background

I found an even better solution to keeping Skim.app in the background. Rather than switching back to the Terminal after skim updates, one can: open -g -a /Applications/Skim.app $1 The manual page for open says: -g Do not bring the application to the foreground. This way one can continue

[Skim-app-users] How to stop popup

I have Auto set according to http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/manual/SkimHelp_39.html#SEC101 but in the recent versions of Skim a little popup window keeps appearing asking me whether I want to do this or not. How do I stop this thing? I ALWAYS want the file updated and this just keeps getting

Re: [Skim-app-users] How to stop popup

Christiaan: This happened in 1.3.11, and has been fixed in 1.3.12. That's what I suspected, so I skipped 1.3.11 but ... according to the About that I'm looking at right now I have Verion 1.3.12(62). :-( It's that I get the popup the first time - but I never ever want to see it at all. Such

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

Christiaan: I was expecting a single pdf inside the original file. Then you expect wrongly. This is what the script does: it converts PDF files with Skim notes to PDFD packages, which are directories with such a file content. You will see that in Finder it looks like a file rather than

[Skim-app-users] current size

I'm using Skim to build a poster in LaTeX with the landscape template given at http://nxg.me.uk/docs/posters/ If one sets the scale to 100% (actual size) Acrobat will report the size of the poster in the lower left corner. (In this case 46.81 x 33.11 in.) This is quite useful for tracking

Re: [Skim-app-users] Embedded notes on a pdf

Nicole: I am afraid I am not sure where or how I would put this script in, do you know how I would do this? Just to clarify I can usually just click export and then choose the file type as pdf with embedded notes and that usually works with the exception of about 3 files I have been sent so

[Skim-app-users] Skim and dropbox PDFs

Folks: I usually use Skim in the mode where it automatically updates when a PDF file changes: defaults write -app Skim SKAutoReloadFileUpdate -boolean true This works beautifully on normal PDFs generated by LaTeX, allowing me to observe the typset results automatically. Now I'd like to have

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim can't remember??

Suddenly for reasons I don't know Skim has lost the ability to remember my settings. I want pages to open one page, zoom to fit and not continuous. Also I want Skim to remember these settings. Instead it insists on making a tiny window, continuous and not zoom to fit despite my setting it.

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim can't remember??

Christiaan: I haven;t got a clue what can go wrong. I see no problem. You did choose PDF Use Current View Settings as Default? You could try to check your preference file, you could check that in Terminal.app using the command: defaults read -app Skim SKDefaultPDFDisplaySettings Does

Re: [Skim-app-users] Another thing for Skim to remember

Christiaan: You're confusing 'Zoom to Fit' and Automatically Resize'. One is an action (and therefore cannot be remembered), the other is a setting (and is remembered). Ahh, interesting. So perhaps I'm suggesting 'Automatically Zoom to Fit'. I see that 'Automatically Resize' does the 'Zoom

Re: [Skim-app-users] Another thing for Skim to remember

Christiaan: Again, no. It's not a setting. It's an action. Just as you cannot remember a Zoom In. It's the difference between how and what. Why can't it be both? It's a setting - you set a parameter. It means to take an action (zoom to fit) when the PDF is opened. In fact, Automatically

Re: [Skim-app-users] Puzzled user

Dave: One of the main reasons to install skim was to have automatic updates for pdf files that have changed. I'm usually talking about latex generated pdfs where the change is generated from a compilation within aquamacs, or by running a make file from a terminal. I am guessing that

Re: [Skim-app-users] Puzzled user

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 concomitant data loss. Setting the related hidden defaults mentioned on the

Re: [Skim-app-users] any knowledge of skim split-off projects for PDF save?

Josh: a simplified (one step) export option would be quite useful. I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'export' but perhaps by that you mean to embed the changes made to a skim file into the PDF from the Mac OS X file system. Backing up a little: Skim stores marks you make on the PDF in the

Re: [Skim-app-users] Any SKIM 'plug-in' that allows it be used at websites that want ADOBE?

Randy: But my experience is that PDF forms actually DO require certain Adobe programs to correctly manipulate the fields. I can't remember if it was the standard Acrobat or a some kind of enhanced Acrobat. I base this on my son's Boy Scout Eagle form 2 years ago: some non-Adobe programs

[Skim-app-users] bug in skim: rotation right button

While running Skim, I happened to want to repeatedly rotate a figure just in one direction (because, unfortunately, the state of rotation is lost by Skim when the page refreshes and I was using atchange to trigger refresh by an external script). To make that easier I put the 'Rotate Right' button

Re: [Skim-app-users] bug in skim: rotation right button

Christiaan: Thanks, I'll have that fixed for the next release. Great! BTW, the combined button should work correctly. Yes, it does, sorry my description wasn't so clear. Tom Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. Senior Investigator National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute

[Skim-app-users] scroll problem with Skim

I'm having a really hard time getting Skim to scroll through PDFs by distinct page jumps (ie, only whole pages are shown, one after the other as one scrolls) using my Logitech mouse scroll wheel. Sometimes I can get it to work and other times it refuses, which is rather frustrating. I tried many

Re: [Skim-app-users] spotlight comments to anchored note?

Josh: I'm wondering if anyone else out there might have written a code or devised another method to turn spotlight comments on a PDF into an anchored note at the top of a document in Skim. http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/ftp/skimembed does what you want?? Tom Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.

Re: [Skim-app-users] Flicker Upon Revert (Very Annoying)

Patrick: I'm on Mavericks, and my Skim version is 1.4.8 (82). Same here. As with the previous poster, whenever I do displayline -r my whole document does a really annoying flicker. The same flicker is triggered by clicking on File - Revert. It looks to me like a revert causes Skim to

[Skim-app-users] page settings in skim

Perhaps this was discussed already. I have skim 1.4.31 (105) [latest verson] and macOS Sierra 10.12.6 [sysadmins won't let me upgrade yet] Previously I was able to set zoom to fill the page and scrolling (rotating wheel of a Logitech M510 mouse) would jump page by page. Now I cannot always

Re: [Skim-app-users] page settings in skim

Christiaan: > This was discussed before. This is indeed one of Apple's PDFKit bugs. This is the problem of the pages not fitting properly so I can't quickly scroll through the document. One way around this is to Zoom smaller (-). However, then the PDF is small and harder to read. So I'm

[Skim-app-users] trick to work around Skim scroll problem

A recent Apple bug prevents one from scrolling through a Skim document, it can go forward but hangs going backwards or it won't go forward and slides down instead. Of course this makes getting around a document awkward. Zoom to Fit fails. A solution is to load the document and then shrink the

[Skim-app-users] Update to 1.4.34 refused

Christiaan: I was able to update from 1.4.33 on a laptop running macOS Sierra 10.12.6. On another desktop machine running macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 my skim is 1.4.33 and even if I close the app and open it again, it claims "You're up-to-date! Skim 1.4.33 is currently the newest version

[Skim-app-users] Suddenly Skim is turning highlight text into Notes!

Skim: Version 1.4.36 (110) macOS Sierra 10.12.6 I normally use my mouse to highlight text and then copy it. But today Skim is acting differently. Instead, it immediately turns the text into a Note. I don't get the material in my cut/paste buffer and now I have to remove the Note which puts me

[Skim-app-users] automatic bibtex (was Re: Updating references)

Jason: > For a lot of the manuscript and grant applications I have to include > the pmid and PMC numbers that pubmed provides. I've added the Pmc > filed as a default for all references. This works just fine for new > references, but is blank in my previous references. I really don't > want to go

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

Steven: > Getting it with this: > \documentclass[11pt]{article} > ... Thanks! I ran that through LaTeX and displayed it on macOS 10.15.4 using Skim 1.5.9. Indeed, when I click on some numbers in the table, FaceTime pops up offering to "Click call to make this call"! I launched it with Acrobat

Re: [Skim-app-users] Flash player no longer supported, what happens to media9 and Skim?

Reinhard: Thanks for the detailed response about Flash history. > Tom, it's a pity that you relied on Adobe Flash too much in the past. I didn't. I have been interested in putting a small video into one of my PowerDot slides. I finally stumbled across movie15 in TeXLive files and from there

[Skim-app-users] Flash player no longer supported, what happens to media9 and Skim?

I just learned about https://ctan.org/pkg/media9 for playing movies in a PDF. That page says: "Playback of multimedia files uses the built-in Flash Player of Adobe Reader and does, therefore, not depend on external plug-ins." However, Flash is going away:

[Skim-app-users] Interview on Skim with Christiaan Hofman

about Skim Reply-To: This is a nice interview with Christiaan Hofman about Skim. June 2020, "Staff Pick" Project of the Month - Skim By Community Team June 5th, 2020 For our June "Staff Pick" Project of the Month, we selected Skim, a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X.

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

I display all my scientific papers using Skim and I prefer to give presentations with powerdot using Skim. These days boards don't show up lasers well and of course they can't be used in webnars. Some presentation methods appear as a bright red circle like a laser. I don't know their method,

[Skim-app-users] broken PDF '#' vs '%23' on two different computers

Dear Skim users: Here is a strange case of a broken link in a PDF. It could be a bug in Skim or the website for a scientific paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.571881/full Get the PDF and look at page 14. Under SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL, click on the link.

Re: [Skim-app-users] Big Sur title bar change

Posted with permission. - Forwarded message from "Harrison, James H (jhh5y)" - Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:14:42 + From: "Harrison, James H (jhh5y)" To: "schne...@mail.nih.gov" Subject: Big Sur title bar change Thomas- I don't have posting privileges to the Skim board right now,

Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim 1.6.1

Christiaan: > A new version of Skim is available for download at > or using the built-in updater. > > Bugs Fixed > * Separate window title on Big Sur. Works beautifully now! THANKS! Tom Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. Senior Investigator National

[Skim-app-users] Skim fit

I have the latest Skim 1.6.7. I thought that this version would fix the fit problem but I can't figure out how to do it. When a PDF pops up I want it to fit to my window (which goes from the bottom of the screen to the top) and then I want to be able to just scroll through the pages since that

Re: [Skim-app-users] Puzzling Skim settings

It turns out that I had in Skim Preferences/General/Open files set to 'Fit'. With that setting I repeatedly got a wide display. When I switched it to 'Default' now I'm getting a tighter display. I'm very puzzled. Why would 'Fit' make a display page that is too wide and fit when it is

[Skim-app-users] Puzzling Skim settings

I use skim all the time and find it to be a fabulous program. But every once in awhile the settings I like get changed and I am unable to fix it. I want my PDFs to show up in a tight window around the PDF with minimal space around the PDF. I can adjust the size of the window by hand and then

[Skim-app-users] Bad PDF, possible font problem

Dear Springer Nature: Your web page https://support.springer.com/en/support/solutions/articles/6000206179-contacting-us#Additional-Contact-Information doesn't seem to indicate where to report problems so I'm sending this to both author support and customer service. The problem is on this

[Skim-app-users] copy/paste note

Christiaan: Thanks much for all your efforts on the wonderful Skim program! Using Skim 1.6.20 I wrote a note on a PDF containing the url that I got the PDF from. I then embedded the note into the pdf (https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/ftp/skimembed). This allowed me to transfer the note along with

[Skim-app-users] zoom to fit

I use Skim all the time, it's a great program. It used to be that I would always get Skim to zoom to fit all the time without doing anything. About a year ago something changed and now I cannot figure out how to do this. I've tried many things. The controls are unclear. Settings are not

[Skim-app-users] skim failing to display figures

Dear Christiaan: In this intriguing paper: @article{Keizer.Steg2008, author = "K. Keizer and S. Lindenberg and L. Steg", title = "{The spreading of disorder}", journal = "Science", volume = "322", pages = "1681--1685", pmid = "19023045", note = "\url {https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1161405};,

[Skim-app-users] Skim popup problem

Dear Skim Experts: Maybe someone can help me with a Skim popup problem. The computers toot (iMac) and lap (MacBook Pro) are: macOS Monterey Version 12.6 (up to date) Skim 1.6.12 (up to date) On toot there is no problem. The issue only happens on lap, but I don't know why. On lap in the trash

[Skim-app-users] Search display suggestion

Christiaan: The search function that Skim provides is better than most since it shows the new location in a bright yellow box before subsiding to a blue highlight. The Firefox browser has a fabulous search match display method. When one does command-F a box shows up in the lower left. I turn

Re: [Skim-app-users] Micro-zoom ?

Christiaan: > Here's what the AppleScript for zoom in could look like: That's interesting, may be it could be used to solve a problem I've had with Skim for some years now? When I open Skim it is not set to 'Zoom to fit' and I have to do that every time. I've asked you about how to do this a

Re: [Skim-app-users] Micro-zoom ?

Christiaan: Thanks for all your efforts on this great program. > "Zoom to fit" isnot a setting, it is an action. > I think you are confused with "Automatically Resize",which is a > setting that can also be set as a default. Ok I sort of understand. But it doesn't answer my question of how to