On 15 Apr 2009, at 8:20 PM, Rob Rye wrote:
Hi All,
Skim is hands down my favorite app for displaying and presenting PDFs.
I frequently use Skim in Presentation mode to show a series of home
made slideshows to my preschool-aged children. Each show has a
different educational "theme": shapes, colors, numbers, vowels, all
letters. We go through a set of 5 slideshows over and over again
together in a single session. So, I repeatedly switch and forth
between files during a single session. I always want to be in
presentation mode so there is nothing on the screen other than what
I want them to identify.
I tend to do everything I can using keyboard commands. So, I hit ESC
to leave Presentation mode, then switch files using Command-` and
then re-enter Presentation mode using the appropriate keyboard
shortcut.
Unfortunately, about 50% of the time I hit Command-` before I hit
ESC. The result of hitting Command-` during Presentation is
invariably a complete freeze of Skim on my computers, forever
displaying the last image I was on. The only thing I can find to do
to get back to presenting is to Force Quit and start over.
I cannot reproduce this. When I do this all that happens is that the
fullscreen window loses focus, simply clicking in e.g. the black area
brings the focus back and allows me to do anything I like.
I am using
Skim 1.2.1 (stable release, no nightly updates applied)
Mac OS X 10.5.6
Processor: PowerPC (problem occurs on both Powerbook G4 and G5 tower)
I realize that switching presentations during a single session in
Presentation mode is probably an unusual behavior, and I certainly
don't expect to be able to use Command-` to switch files while
remaining in Presentation mode. However, I do wish that Skim would
be more forgiving of my errors on this front.
I think the real problem is that it switches to the other document,
which is behind the full screen window, so you don't see it. I don't
see a way to avoid this though, especially as window switching (cmd-`)
is a system action.
Christiaan
Thanks,
Rob
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Professor Rob Rye
University of Southern California
Department of Earth Sciences
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