Adam: > I believe you overlooked Tools->Rotate Page Left and Tools->Rotate > Page Right on the main menu. As in most applications, toolbar > buttons are only a subset of all possible actions.
Thanks much for taking the time to point out that, I had indeed missed it. >From what you said, all the individual page rotations are forgotten on refresh. > There was discussion about this on the bibdesk-develop and > bibdesk-users lists back in 2006-2007. Some of the developers > didn't want to add auto-reloading because of page number changes and > the chance of screwing up notes, and I still think you should avoid > it if at all possible. I use Skim because it is a viewer that automatically refreshes so I could develop a document without having to use my mouse at all. I could not get other viewers to do this. While doing this I will never add notes since I'm aware of that danger. Different people have different ideas about how to use a tool. > > What is different about remembering page > > rotations from rembering the current page? > Rotation is an inherent property of each PDF page. Suppose you have > mixed landscape/portrait pages in your PDF document, and Skim loads > it as such. If you reload that and have a different number of > pages, or if you rearrange them, how is it supposed to know which > pages are landscape and which are portrait? The simplest solution is to forget the detailed rotations but to keep the global changes, just as the page is kept - even though it may be inconsistent in some cases. The user will understand what they have done! Is that a resonable solution? Would it adversely affect something else? > The current page is a similar problem; it's a heuristic that will > fail at times. I understand why this seems inconsistent, but I'd > suggest that the correct solution is to reset the current page to > the first page after reloading. TeX editors have things like > synctex to take care of this reliably. If Skim reset to the first page, I may as well use a different viewer. (I see that synctex works with pdflatex, not straight latex - wouldn't that would force me to abandon all my eps files from 20 years of writing papers?) Tom Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory Molecular Information Theory Group Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
