I for one like Skim just the way it is.
Jack A. Reis
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On Oct 13, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Gary Yuen <garyy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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