On Mar 19, 2014, at 0:29, Patrick Rutkowski wrote: > I would like to revive an old complaint that appears to have already > been made in 2011: > > http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/mailman/message/27873499/ > > I'm on Mavericks, and my Skim version is 1.4.8 (82). > > As with the previous poster, whenever I do "displayline -r" my whole > document does a really annoying flicker. The same flicker is triggered > by clicking on "File -> Revert." > > It looks to me like a revert causes Skim to scroll to the top of the > document for just a fraction of a second, after which it scrolls back > down to where you were before. Indeed, if you do a revert from the > very top of the document then the flicker doesn't appear. > > This should really be addressed, especially for us users who use > Skim.app for TeX typesetting on OS X. Windows has a PDF reader --- > called SumatraPDF --- that does synctex flawlessly and with no > flickering, but I'd really rather stay on OS X if I can. > > I'm not familiar with how the internals of Skim are structured, but > I'm sharp with Cocoa and Obj-C. If anyone could perhaps give me a > pointer or two as a head start, then maybe I could try to fix the > issue myself. > > -Patrick
Sorry, there is nothing that can be done about it. The loading and displaying is done by Apple's PDFKit, which is just a black box. We cannot tell it to reload with a particular location displayed. We can only tell it to load a new document. And then to scroll to some location. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
