On Apr 30, 2008, at 3:54 PM, James Harrison wrote: > On Apr 30, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Bruce G. Seidner, Ph.D. wrote: > >> I just can't get around a pdf the way I would like and >> feel frustrated and impatient with most readers lack of navigation >> options. I like Skim a lot. This is no criticism of Skim, and I would >> like to see it get even better. > > I'm lucky enough to be working with monitors that show readable full > pages, so sentence/paragraph navigation usually isn't an issue. > Navigation within long PDFs is an issue and though the begin/end and > page number jumps are very nice, I'm usually scanning for content > rather than jumping to a page number. PDF displays still lack a book's > ability to flip through pages and find locations quickly by skimming > content. Skim's thumbnails are nice (particularly the way you can set > them to the largest size and shrink them by squeezing the column > size), but they don't get quite large enough to allow sampling the > text of pages to look for content. > > If I had a relatively large cover flow display to flip through the > pages of a PDF, I'd probably use it a lot. I rarely use cover flow in > the finder, or even in iTunes, but this is one application where it > would shine. The idea would be to briefly toggle the main display area > to a cover flow view of pages, allow scanning the pages at the minimum > size necessary for reading, and then toggle back for comfortable > reading once the desired location is found. I have no idea whether > this is technically feasible, but I think it's an attractive > application of the display technology and consistent with Skim's > name. :-)
Something like the way that recent iPhoto allows skimming through grouped photos (Events) as you move the mouse across the 'pile' of photos representing the Event. Interesting. --J ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
