On 27 Apr 2009, at 4:09 AM, James Howison wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Working on a latex document I noticed that Skim, in the facing pages
> display modes, doesn't get the recto/verso thing right, compared to
> Preview, at least for me.
>
> The attached file is a two-sided production from memoir.
>
> \documentclass[9pt,twoside]{memoir}
> ...
>
> Preview, in facing pages mode, displays it with the first page on
> its own, and then the pages facing, as though one were opening a
> book. Skim shows the first and second pages facing, getting all the
> pages out of synch. This is especially obvious when one gets to the
> numbered content pages, where the numbers should be on the outside,
> but skim shows them on the inside. Preview does it so that the show
> up on the outside.
>
> Am I missing a setting? See Table 1.1 on page 4 of the memman.pdf
> for the recto/verso recommendations (also attached as image).
>
Yes, PDF > PDF Display > Book Mode.
You can save this as the default (together with other PDF display
settings) using the last PDF menu item.
In fact Preview is wrong here in 50% of the cases, because it does not
allow you to change this. It happened to be correct for you, but it
could just as well haven been wrong.
Christiaan
> <test-skim-recto.pdf><Picture 5.png>
>
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