On Wednesday 2009 July 15, at 08:54 , Marc H. Scholl wrote: [...] > ... indeed! And I was one of those who asked for it. I still would > find it useful to consider "presentation" mode more interactive > rather than "read-only", but Christiaan seems to have strong > opinions here... > > My work around is to use the -- free, by now -- Omni Dazzle > (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidazzle/ > ) tool to scribble on the slides (actually: on the screen on top of > the slides) in Skim's presentation mode.
Thank you very much, I have just tried it: it is a very nice idea for highlighting slides. Unfortunately it does not seem usable for annotating (unless one records the lecture with something like screenflow/camstudio, since otherwise it would not be possible to keep/ give handouts of the lectures to students). Also, I received form Bill Mohler this e-mail: ---begin--- Hi David. The list is bouncing my email, for some reason (Thunderbird issues?)... could you forward if for me to add if to the record? I think I have an answer for your final part of Q2. I use a ModBook with a Wacom tablet screen. Text written into the Ink window can be "Sent" to a skim document, and appears as a brand new note. If the cursor îs active or text is selected in an existing note, the sent text pastes right in. Works great. It's how I read and annotate the vast majority of my pdfs. FYI, one can also use Write Anywhere in Ink but it tends to get sloppy, so I do most text entry in the ink window. WA might be nice during a lecture... Does this help? Bill ---end--- If I understand correctly, you use Inkwell to convert handwritten notes to some text, which is then pasted into skim pdf notes. I use a wacom tablet (bamboo), but I'd rather not use the ink recognition, which was failing most of the times I tried (since mathematical symbols are not well supported, I guess). For the text-only part, I found that typing is much faster than handwriting on the tablet and sending the recognized text. About the editing/authoring part I am quite happy with all that skim provides. It is a fact that the presentation side is not mainstream (yet), and from what I've heard it cannot be expected much on that side. I've tried curio (can do everything with the tablet and annotations - pdf spread, but nothing in presentation mode), pdf studio, pdf pen, pdf clerk pro (they do not provide a presentation mode), but none compares to skim in the editing/authoring part, at least for the latex- to-pdf use I make of it; and none compares to skim in the presentation part as well (but the incresing demand might change the things a little). Do you have any suggestions about a two-windows approach? skim for pdf display and a note-taker software (such as inkwell's inkpad, inkbook or jarnal) for the scribbles. Thank you again for your help. davide ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
