Christiaan,
yes I understand that'd lead to many regressions and maybe would make Skim no
longer Skim. But what about "Times They are a-Changin" ? Maybe the only thing
left is for someone to fork Skim and get it done.
Gary
Le Oct 13, 2011 à 1:49 PM, Christiaan Hofman a écrit :
>
> 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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