Thanks for explanation Christiaan. Too bad the PDF standard doesn't support smoothing.
BUT... i just noticed something that might make freehand writing workable, and not hard to implement (probably). The main problem is not the lack of smoothing (although that would be great), but the fact that separate strokes frequently grab the previous (currently selected) stroke and drag it around. And ... I've noticed that writing letters/strokes very close together is no problem at all IF you first deselect the previous stroke (i.e., make the blue box vanish). So, that suggests an easy (?) fix: In "handwriting mode" (maybe it's own button to avoid confusion with normal freehand) Skim immediately deselects a stroke once it's completed. you draw the line, skim recognizes when you've stopped that stroke, as usual, then it immediate deselects the stroke so your next stroke won't drag it around. I assume that's fairly simple programmatically. and i think it would work. If it is a different note type, then the difference in interaction could be reasonable. Maybe it's just me, but because of the kind of research I do, i live with PDFs a big part of my days. the ability to interact with them in a very natural manner would be really helpful. And I'd love to be able to just pick up the pen on the graphics tablet and not have to switch a lot from it to the keyboard and back. - Rick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
