PDFKit does not give any resolution for the column, so there is no way to relate a column to a point. Therefore it is pretty arbitrary which column you end up with, sorry.
Christiaan On 20 Aug 2007, at 10:34 PM, John Swensen wrote: > I have read through several of the mailing lists, feature requests, > and bug reports and noticed that there are issues with columns > (from Apple's side of things it appears), so maybe this problems is > intractable also. When using the command-shift click to go from > Skim back to Latex code in Emacs, there seems to be a fairly common > occurrence of going to the right "height" in the document, but to > the wrong column. > > To be more descriptive, here is my configuration: > 1) OSX running Emacs22.1-Carbon > 2) Skim 0.6.1 > 3) Using the most recent PDFsync from CTAN and emacsclient to talk > between Skim and Emacs > > The pdf document I am working with is a 2 column document generated > using pdflatex in a format common to an IEEE conference > publication. The problem intermittently occurs when using command- > shift-click to reverse search from the PDF document to the latex > file. Here are the things that are working right: > 1) It always goes to the correct file (I use the SourceDoc tag in > my Latex file and multiple TEX files for a single paper) > 2) It always jumps to the text corresponding to the correct page > > The problem is that depending on my vertical placement of the mouse > cursor, it jumps to either the left or right column, regardless of > the horizontal placement of the mouse cursor. I have attached a > simple latex file to illustrate (of course someone will need emacs > +pdfsync to test it out. To make the problem occur repeatably, use > the command-shift-click on the subsection entitled "0.1 KING HENRY > IV". This will in fact take you to the proper location in the > file. If you command-shift-click slightly lower in the text of the > subsection, it will make you jump forward to the "0.4 KING HENRY > IV" subsection. > > I can investigate further if someone is willing to give me a little > direction as to how to proceed. > > Thanks (for your help and for a great utility) > > John > Swensen<testskim.tex>------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a > browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
