Hi Alejandro,
thanks for your advice. I already managed to do it after Christiaans
posting.
Using SKIM is no issue of making up my mind. I used it because it has
a lot of advantages over Acrobat.
But right now more often than not it opens a pdf-files as described
with a gray empty page, page counter at the last page and scrolling
backward is not possible.
I have to select the pdf with the FINDER again and open it explicitly
with the Acrobat reader.
So I prefer to open it by default with the Acrobat reader and only if
I have to mark something or put in notes I try to open it with SKIM.
I can't see no scheme behind SKIM's behavior.
Maybe it's my system as Christiaan assumed. But it nover happened with
the old version.
I will try it with the next version of SKIM again.
Thanks so far.
Servus, tschau, bye
Herbert Huber
http://www.gavagai.de
Am 03.08.2010 um 12:43 schrieb Alejandro Cámara:
Hello Herbert,
To select the program which opens PDFs by default you have to select
a PDF file and seconary-click to "Get more info" (I'm translating
from Spanish what I get, so it may be different). There go to "Open
with" and select Abode Reader or whatever program you want to use to
open the PDFs. The last step is to click the button in that section
"Change everything", that will change the default application for
all the PDFs, not only the one you selected previously.
I hope you find this useful and that you change your mind again soon
and start using Skim :-)
Álex
2010/8/2 Herbert Huber <[email protected]>
Hi Cristiaan,
since the problem persists and I don't know if and when you can
repair it I want to declare Adobe Reader to my "standard" program
for pdf-files again.
I don't remember where to do it.
Could you please give my the procedure to declare Adobe reader
instead of Skim to my default/standard opening program for pdf-files.
Servus, tschau, bye
Herbert Huber
http://www.gavagai.de
Am 29.07.2010 um 22:54 schrieb Christiaan Hofman:
On Jul 29, 2010, at 21:40, Herbert Huber wrote:
Hi Christiaan,
Huh? So what did you do with Acrobat, did you save or anything?
What actually changed to the file?
No. As far as I know my Acrobat is a Reader only.
I tried to reproduce this effect and didn't succeed at first. That
means, the new SKIM did open pdf's correctly.
Up till a certain time (or whatever): now SKIm gives me that gray
page again. Even with pdf's which I opened correctly with SKIM a
minute ago.
Launch Console.app (in /Applications/Utilities), select the
Console Messages in the LHS pane and look for messages from Skim.
In my Console messages I don't see anything remotely like "LHS".
LHS = Left Hand Side (standard acronym)
But in the "system.log" There is this (I guess the time is not
Greenwich time) concerning SKIM (I just copy the end of this log)
.....
Jul 29 15:03:32 users-imac-g5-2 [0x0-0x25025].net.sourceforge.skim-
app.skim[943]: "disk3" unmounted.
Jul 29 15:03:32 users-imac-g5-2 [0x0-0x25025].net.sourceforge.skim-
app.skim[943]: "disk3" ejected.
Jul 29 15:12:34 users-imac-g5-2 Skim[943]: An instance 0x583be40
of class SKMainWindowController is being deallocated while key
value observers are still registered with it. Observation info is
being leaked, and may even become mistakenly attached to some
other object. Set a breakpoint on NSKVODeallocateBreak to stop
here in the debugger. Here's the current observation info:
\n<NSKeyValueObservationInfo 0x3b879e0> (\n<NSKeyValueObservance
0x58cd580: Observer: 0x58cd540, Key path: pageLabel, Options:
<New: NO, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0x58af2b0, Property:
0x3b3a520>\n)
Jul 29 15:12:34 users-imac-g5-2 Skim[943]: An instance 0x3bf9ed0
of class SKMainWindowController is being deallocated while key
value observers are still registered with it. Observation info is
being leaked, and may even become mistakenly attached to some
other object. Set a breakpoint on NSKVODeallocateBreak to stop
here in the debugger. Here's the current observation info:
\n<NSKeyValueObservationInfo 0x5927c10> (\n<NSKeyValueObservance
0x5929790: Observer: 0x5929750, Key path: pageLabel, Options:
<New: NO, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0x3b1ec80, Property:
0x3b3a520>\n)
Jul 29 15:12:34 users-imac-g5-2 Skim[943]: An instance 0x59ad0f0
of class SKMainWindowController is being deallocated while key
value observers are still registered with it. Observation info is
being leaked, and may even become mistakenly attached to some
other object. Set a breakpoint on NSKVODeallocateBreak to stop
here in the debugger. Here's the current observation info:
\n<NSKeyValueObservationInfo 0x59ad460> (\n<NSKeyValueObservance
0x59d0d00: Observer: 0x59d0cc0, Key path: pageLabel, Options:
<New: NO, Old: NO, Prior: NO> Context: 0x59b07c0, Property:
0x3b3a520>\n)
Jul 29 15:13:42 users-imac-g5-2 [0x0-0x45045].net.sourceforge.skim-
app.skim[3668]: failed to find `Sec3' in name table dictionary.
Jul 29 15:13:42 users-imac-g5-2 [0x0-0x45045].net.sourceforge.skim-
app.skim[3668]: failed to find `Sec4' in name table dictionary.
Jul 29 15:13:55 users-imac-g5-2 [0x0-0x45045].net.sourceforge.skim-
app.skim[3668]: failed to find `Sec3' in name table dictionary.
Jul 29 15:13:55 users-imac-g5-2 [0x0-0x45045].net.sourceforge.skim-
app.skim[3668]: failed to find `Sec1' in name table dictionary.
Does that indicate something?
Servus, tschau, bye
Herbert Huber
http://www.gavagai.de
This points to some problem. I've seen It's really a (long time)
system bug in that was (finally) fixed in Snow Leopard. I hoped a
workaround I added in the latest release would fix this, but the
system bug seems to be even more serious than I thought. Though I
am not sure what exactly triggers it in Skim, and I don't have a
machine running Leopard anymore to debug.
Christiaan
Am 29.07.2010 um 19:32 schrieb Christiaan Hofman:
On Jul 29, 2010, at 17:41, Herbert Huber wrote:
Hi Christiaan,
So you're saying that it now works OK?
No, it only works OK for every dataset after that very dataset
has been once opened by Acrobat Reader.
After that Skim also opens correctly with the first page.
Huh? So what did you do with Acrobat, did you save or anything?
What actually changed to the file?
Is there anything relevant in the Console logs?
I'm not acquainted with that,
Launch Console.app (in /Applications/Utilities), select the
Console Messages in the LHS pane and look for messages from Skim.
And what's your system?
Mac OS X 10.5.8
Did 1.3.6 work OK? Did the PDF have any notes attached?
Christiaan
Best regards
Servus, tschau, bye
Herbert Huber
http://www.gavagai.de
Am 29.07.2010 um 17:03 schrieb Christiaan Hofman:
On Jul 29, 2010, at 15:30, Herbert Huber wrote:
Hi,
I've just installed SKIM 1.3.7 (55) and now I get a gray blank
page when I open a pdf.
The page counter above is at the last page. But when I go the
last but 1 page (and so on) I only get gray pages all the time.
Opening the same pdf with Adobe works normally.
After I did this the very same pdf also works with SKIM
normally.
What am I doing wrong?
Servus, tschau, bye
Herbert Huber
http://www.gavagai.de
You're probably doing nothing wrong, but I cannot say what goes
wrong. So you're saying that it now works OK? Is there anything
relevant in the Console logs? And what's your system?
Christiaan
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