Dear Christiaan, many thanks for your reply, now I understand the reason of this limitation. Still, it would be good to be able to set page transitions programmatically, for example using an external program such as SkimNotes: since this is possible for notes, I imagine it should be technically possible for transitions too. With such as system one could easily write a LaTeX package to write the transition to an auxiliary file to be passed to the SkimNotes-like program.
Regards, Marco On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 20:16, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 24, 2010, at 14:40, Marco Lombardi wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I would like to set individual page transitions programmatically for >> an entire document, which is generated with pdflatex using the beamer >> class. Is there a way to do this? The standard beamer class commands >> for page transitions seem to work only in Acrobat and not in Skim. A >> backup option would be to be able to specify the transitions in an >> external file somehow. >> >> Many thanks, >> Marco Lombardi >> >> P.S. Incidentally, where are page transitions saved in the PDF >> document? I see Skim produces a resource fork for the PDF when I save >> it, but the resource fork is empty... > > No, there's no way to set page transitions programmatically, you can only do > this through the UI. > > The transition styles ste in the PDF are not accessible to us, Apple's PDFKit > does not support them and does not even report them. In fact one of the > reasons the Skim transitions were introduced is precisely as an alternative > for the missing PDFKit support. There's also no relation whatsoever between > the possible PDF and Skim transitions. > > The transition information is saved in an extended attribute, just like the > notes (the resource fork is also saved in an EA, but a different one). > > Christiaan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
