On Jul 15, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Davide L. Ferrario wrote:
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
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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
I've added some support for tablets in presentation mode, the idea is
that in presentation mode you would not be expected to use the tablet
as a mouse or text proxy anyway. Be aware though that you can't do
much editing in presentation mode, so it's hard to change what you
did. E.g. you can't select a scribble, you can only undo.
I expect to release one of these days.
Christiaan
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