> On 26 Dec 2018, at 13:37, list_email--- via Skim-app-users 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Dec 26, 2018, at 4:20 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 26 Dec 2018, at 12:18, list_email--- via Skim-app-users 
>>> <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is there a fork of Skim besides HyperPdf (which doesn’t work at all)? There 
>>> is a huge bug in Skim that makes it unusable on long documents on macOS 
>>> 10.11. The developer has stated that he will not fix this bug. 10.11 is the 
>>> newest OS that I can run on my computer and I’m not going to buy a new 
>>> computer just to use Skim.
>>> 
>>> Jerry
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> There are certainly no official forks.
>> 
>> What is the problem with 10.11?
>> 
>> Christiaan
>> 
> Hi Christiaan,
> 
> On long documents there are large regions of white space in the main document 
> area. The longer the document, the larger the white area. Sometimes the white 
> area is at the top, sometimes at the bottom, and sometimes both in the same 
> document. The size and placement can change with scrolled-to position. On 
> documents greater than perhaps 200 pages the white space is the entire 
> window. Also, the cursor position is read incorrectly so that e.g. attempting 
> to highlight a line of text becomes a guessing game as to where to click to 
> initiate the drag.
> 
> I just downloaded a few old versions of Skim and have so far made it up to 
> 1.4.30 which works OK.
> 
> Jerry
> 


that sounds bad. But it also sounds like something over which we have zero 
control. This is a PDFKit bug, they display the PDF content. A fork would not 
help, as they would necessarily also depend on PDFKit. Weird you got it to work 
on older versions.

Christiaan

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