Hi
I've been using this app for a while. Currently on the latest version 1.4.1
I'm kind of puzzled by the slightly nondeterministic behaviour of skim.
Perhaps I'm doing it wrong. Maybe someone can enlighten me.
One of the main reasons to install skim was to have automatic updates for
pdf files that have changed. I'm usually talking about latex generated pdfs
where the change is generated from a compilation within aquamacs, or by
running a make file from a terminal. I am guessing that latex+skim is
common enough than most of you will know what I'm talking about.
Here are the oddities:
Firstly, when skim detects a change in an open file for the first time in
the current session, it always prompts:
"The PDF file has changed on disk. Do you want to reload this document now?
Choosing Auto will reload this file automatically for future changes." I
don't get why it just doesn't do auto every time, or at least why it always
asks for every file and every session of skim. How can I tell it to always
to auto? For all files. Always. I tried a few things but with no success.
Secondly, skim often seems to miss that the file has been updated. But the
lack of a reload or refresh button or menu item suggests that this is not
supposed to happen. I've experienced this often and with changes induced
from both aquamacs and from the terminal. I figure I must be configuring
it incorrectly or simply using it in the wrong way.
A related but more minor issue concerns using latex make files or scripts.
When a pdf file is generated multiple times in short succession it seems
that skim often sees an incomplete copy and complains about a corrupt pdf
file. It would make a lot of sense for skim to try again in the case of a
suspected corrupt pdf.
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