On Oct 13, 2011, at 22:28, Matt Mollison wrote:
> 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.
No, it's not possible to have the user being able to choose between them, it's
either always one or the other. And having the other would drop a lot of what I
think are central features of Skim, it's part of what makes Skim Skim. Changing
the way Skim saves the notes would lead to many regressions.
And indeed this was discussed and decided to death, I'l not again go into all
the details.
Christiaan
>
> 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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