> 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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