There are definitely differences among PDF files. I wanted to change the background colour of displayed PDF files, and the code I was given to do that worked with some, but not all of them.
Justin C. Walker wrote: > >> On Jun 6, 2015, at 14:05, Danny Nora Moloney <nmol...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> I have tried using Skim to highlight and underline in a couple pdfs with no >> success. In other pdf's however, it works fine. >> >> When I use the text selection the whole page turns yellow as if I just >> selected the entire page. >> >> Is it the pdf I'm using? > > I believe the answer is “yes”: if I open a .pdf that I know has been > “scanned” (by a simple scanner, not by an OCR-type scanner), I get the same > result: trying to select a single word gets me the whole page. > > HTH > > Justin > > -- > Justin C. Walker > Curmudgeon-at-large > Director > Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds > ---- > 186,000 Miles per Second > Not just a good idea: > it's the law! > ---- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
