No, there's no way to detect columns, other than by writing some kind of OCR software that's very difficult and we're not gonna do.
Apart from that Skim does not support adding/removing pages, and never will, for many good reasons. So there *is* a fundamental obstruction. Christiaan On 24 Sep 2008, at 1:34 PM, Vincent Beffara wrote: > > Hi, > > And first thanks for a very useful tool that I am using constantly ! > > One extremely nice feature is auto-cropping (cmd-K) that removes the > margins for continuous on-screen reading - but sometimes one finds > documents typeset using two columns. Then auto-cropping still works, > but > obviously one then has to go back up to read the second column of a > page > ... > > Is there a way to detect such documents and somehow split every page > into its two columns, to be displayed one on top of the other ? > > There should be no fundamental obstruction, as this can be emulated by > duplicating each page and then cropping alternatively down to the > left- > and right-hand column. It can even be done automatically if one > assumes > that the columns are symmetrical, without ever looking at the contents > of a page (admittedly it will cut the title into two halves, but I > would > be willing to live with that ...) > > Cheers, > > /vincent > > -- > | Vincent Beffara Section de Mathématiques | > | 2-4 rue du Lièvre | > | Tél: (+41) 22 379 11 45 Case postale 64 | > | Fax: (+41) 22 379 11 76 1211 Genève 4 | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suisse | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
