On 24 Sep 2008, at 4:56 PM, Vincent Beffara wrote: > >> 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. > > OK. So how about trusting the user who will tell Skim that there are > indeed two symmetrical columns ? >
Very bad design, definitely not. Adding 2-column versions of all kind of commands leads to more feature bloat. Certainly with the amount of features in Skim new features have to be added with much care, so AFAIC they should pass a pretty high bar at this point. And this would not even pass a very low bar in my opinion. >> Apart from that Skim does not support adding/removing pages, and >> never >> will, for many good reasons. So there *is* a fundamental obstruction. > > OK again, we don't add pages. But we could display each page twice > with > different cropping parameters ... (some kind of a list of "virtual > pages" for display, where a virtual page is a true page with a > rectangle > on it, and the display list defaults to the PDF itself). That's purely > for viewing convenience, so it would be ok to lose the info when > closing > the file. > WE don't display, PDFKit does. Based on the pages. > If I had the time I would look at the source to see if what I am > thinking of is within what is doable ... > Adding this kind of weird workarounds is generally a very bad idea, and I certainly think so here. This should be implemented reliably in PDFKit or not at all. There's not sufficient control to add it in a neat way. Christiaan > > Anyway, that's far from being a life-and-death situation, and Skim is > already vastly superior to all other viewers that I tried ! > > /v > > -- > | 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
