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C. Hofman, A. Maxwell, and M. McCracken
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for Mac OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.
Skim includes many features and has a great user interface.
Skim includes many features and has a great user interface.
What's New
Version 1.3.19:
New Features:
- Extend freehand notes when having CapsLock pressed.
- Improve resizing.
- Restore Previous Session item in Bookmarks menu.
- Use Command-Arrow to collapse or expand all table of contents items.
- Update SyncTeX to latest version 1.16, various bug fixes.
- Fix OpenMeta tags support.
- Allow phrases using double-quotes when searching with Whole Words Only.
- Change some zoom action shortcuts consistent with Preview and to avoid conflicts.
- Improvements to find field.
- Fix display update after changes to media box.
- Remember height of split PDF after closing.
Version 1.3.19:
New Features:
- Extend freehand notes when having CapsLock pressed.
- Improve resizing.
- Restore Previous Session item in Bookmarks menu.
- Use Command-Arrow to collapse or expand all table of contents items.
- Update SyncTeX to latest version 1.16, various bug more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
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| Downloads:135,789 |
| Version Downloads:4,291 |
| Type:Business : Presentation Tools |
| License:Free |
| Date:16 Jan 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for Mac OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.
Skim includes many features and has a great user interface.
Skim includes many features and has a great user interface.
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THEE:LEE reviewed on 03 Feb 2012
How is it fair that people are making money from the work you have done, when your not!
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taja reviewed on 16 Jan 2012
If you use its annotation features with keyboard shortcuts and multi-touch gestures (BetterTouchTool), this becomes an incredible aid to productivity.
The main limitations on it are mainly imposed by Apple's PDFKit, which causes problems for page numbering and saving Adobe Clearscanned OCR documents (which are much smaller and sharper than ordinary OCR, but PDFkit destroys that layer when it saves a PDF using it).
It would be great if it could perform some table of contents editing and page manipulation functions as well (like Preview, PDF Clerk Pro and the new PDF Nomad). But its also understandable that the devs want to keep Skim focused and avoid feature-bloat.
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sea_hare reviewed on 22 Nov 2011
PS whats up with preview in lion? I can only imagine the developers have never actually used the application, it's infuriating!
PPS See http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/wiki/index.php/SyncTeX for minor needed configuration for Aquamacs to play with Skim
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MacJunkee reviewed on 20 Oct 2011
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Uniquepito reviewed on 10 Oct 2011
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Anon-Bud reviewed on 10 Oct 2011
Otherwise, as I first stated: Great!
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I find the new autosaving of scans and photos etc. in Lion's Preview incredibly annoying and time consuming.
If you are considering support for these features, please make them optional!
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Unique-Ish reviewed on 25 Sep 2011
However, its built in auto-restore feature has never really cut it for me. At least for me, it only works when I launch skim directly, and not when I launch it from opening a pdf file. What is the rationale for this behavior? It's a huge pain to try to find every file I had open before, especially when doing research, or in the event of the OCCASIONAL crash. Disabling the Lion auto-restore feature is a step backward because of this. I understand some people prefer the Skim version of this feature, but is there any way future updates can allow us to choose between the 10.7 and the Skim approach? What is the advantage of keeping the built-in function?
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Mikael B reviewed on 16 Sep 2011
It's an invaluable piece of software for me as it's very easy to read and move around, annotate content (I read Mannings MEAP books so I make notes to remember suggestions I give to the authors), to make bookmarks and importantly Skim searches for the whole string on default. The only thing I could wish for with searches is "word A NEAR Word B" or similar.
Skim is generally a very stable application, but it has one serious bug, limited to my knowledge and if I remember correctly to PowerPC machines (or if it was OS X 19´0.5 as well).
Skim will fail intermittently to display the very content of pages for some titles. This varies with title and other factors but with no clear pattern. The only solution I've found is to try and open the title in a previous version of Skim. I keep all versions since 1.3.8 in my Applications folder, just in case. It's common I have to use one version for every 2 titles. A very small number of titles will not display at all. This includes some pdf's — but not all — that I make myself with OS X.
If you are in my situation, would like to use Skim even as you encounter this display bug you can find the previous versions here, http://sourceforge.net/projects/skim-app/files/Skim/
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Some of my pdfs are not printing! (while it's ok with version 1.3.18!)
I've only tested some, it appears that they have skim notes or tables or have been edited somehow, I'm not sure of the reason — while one that contains only a scan of an image prints ok.
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Does the same happen with other mail links – say, in your browser?
Try to change the default email application, the setting is in Mail's preferences.
As far as I know, Skim relies on the global settings for links.
Thanks
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I think this happened when I accidentally deleted tool mode, then I went to 'customize toolbar' and added it back. At first I could get it to work by going to 'Tools > Note Type > highlight', but now that won't even work.
Does anyone have a suggestion of how I can fix this? If the suggestion is to delete Skim and download the application again, will the highlights and notes I have saved in documents be lost?
Thank you.
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Though, even in PDFs where the text tool works, the highlight, underline and strikeout buttons are grayed out in Add Note in my toolbar.
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