On 7 Nov 2007, at 4:29 AM, Jerry wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:24 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > >> >> On 6 Nov 2007, at 10:53 AM, Jerry wrote: >> >>> How does one adjust the font and style and color etc. of the text in >>> text boxes? It seems that the only control is via the Preferences >>> dialog and thus one can't set e.g. italic for particular words. >>> > > Sorry I wasn't clear in my original question. See my next comment, > below. > >> >> >> View > Fonts > Show Fonts >> Tools > Show Color >> >> Select the note, and then select a font or a color in the floating >> panel. RTFM. > > Doing so changes all the text in the box. I still don't see how to > change the style or color of selected text within the box. I'm used > to doing this with comment boxes in Pages.
Ask Adobe and Apple. Don't hold your breath. >> >>> Also, at least when I use Helvetica 9 point for such text, the line >>> spacing increases when I double-click to edit the text, then reverts >>> to a very close line spacing when I click outside the box. This >>> makes >>> a cat-and-mouse game out of editing text and adjusting the text box >>> to fit the text. >>> >> >> The layout of text in the edited text note is done in an ordinary >> text field. We can't control that, it's all Apple's standard private >> code. We can only change the font. >> >>> It seems to me that text boxes should have the status of normal text >>> a we are accustomed to elsewhere on the Mac such as in anchored >>> notes. >>> >>> Jerry >> >> What do you mean with that? > > Being able to change the style or color of selected parts of the text. >> >> Christiaan >> >> FreeText annotations in PDF have only an overall font and color. That's determined by Adobe, not by Skim. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
