I just wanted to say that I like Gary's suggestion. IMHO, allowing the user
to choose the default annotation storage format (skimnotes vs embedded vs
etc.) would be a welcome option. Then I could continue to use Skim on the
Mac and read on the iPad, and share PDFs with colleagues who don't use
Skim, in a relatively seamless manner (i.e., without the extra conversion
steps that humanengr mentioned). I don't know how much of a limiting factor
it is, but Skim cannot edit embedded notes (made with Preview.app, Acrobat,
GoodReader, PDF Expert, etc.) without converting to SkimNotes format.
Again, I love Skim and I've used it for about 5 or so years, but if
something like defaulting to embedded notes doesn't happen I honestly will
probably just use Preview. No disrespect to Skim, but it's the easiest path
for my workflow. (And as a note, I used Preview to read/annotate a couple
PDFs recently and its annotation tools are pretty good in Lion; plus as I
already mentioned, it is fewer steps to have to remember to do when reading
on the iPad and sharing with non-Skim colleagues.)
This is off topic for this thread but related to Tom's LaTeX comment, but is
it possible to have emacs (Aquamacs) open a pdflatex'd (C-c C-c) PDF in Skim
when Preview is set as the default PDF reader?
Matt
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Thomas Schneider <schne...@mail.nih.gov>wrote:
> Gary:
>
> > I used to really love Skim. I still do. But I have moved to Preview.
> > I really want to ask, has Skim considered becoming merely an
> > alternative PDF viewer? That is to say, to save annotations just
> > like Acrobat and Preview within the PDF. Yes you can embed notes or
> > convert notes to Skim but that is an extra step.
>
> Yes that extra step is a pain and though I've wrapped it up in a
> script I still have to run the script.
> http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/ftp/skim
> http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/ftp/skimembed
>
> I use Skim in two ways - to look at a PDF and to refresh the PDF when
> generated from LaTeX to make a wysiwyg
> (http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/atchange.html). As far as I know no
> other reader watches the file and refreshes.
>
> 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)
>
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