DANA SUTTON  I rarely criticize the good people who manage the MU site, but here I have a bone to pick. Why describe Skim as a "PDF Reader and note-taker for scientific papers," which makes it sound like some kind of specialized app. meant only for four-eyed nerds in lab coats? This is a full-blown alternative to Adobe Acrobat, and i. m. h. o. it blows it away.  
(Version 1.2.2)

SCRIVENS  Adobe reader has been a lumpy, slow and annoying app for years, and on the release of v8 I gave up and found an old copy of v5 on a software distribution disk and reinstalled that. What most people need for pdf files and similar is something akin to Preview with perhaps a few more bells and whistles, not an MS Office style app full of unneeded code. Skim is perfect - fast, small, looks good on screen and has the ability to handle notes and so on as well. It has become an essential part of my daily work, Adobe Reader has been deleted and I've changed the pdf default from Preview to Skim. A very elegant and stable app and potentially one of the great utilities for OSX. My thanks to the developers.  
(Version 1.1.6)

MIKELAMBRELLIS  This is an absolutely AWESOME program. It has literally gotten me through my Masters degree. The ability to annotate PDFs is just excellent.

You can add "sticky notes", use a highlighter, circle, box, underline - it is just fantastic.

I am giving it 5 stars overall, however I would like to respectfully request the following two features:

1. Is there some way to save the setting changes that I make? I like to turn off PDF Display|Continuous, and PDF Display|Page Break. I also like to set Zoom to Fit. However I find that I have to do this for every single PDF I read. Is there someway to make the settings changes "sticky"? The lack of this is holding me back from giving it 5 stars for "Ease of Use".

2. This is really a wish. I understand that this would be quite difficult. What I would like is a way to select a "block" of text so that I could select parts of a single column from a PDF page that is displaying multi-column text. Currently, Skim (and every other PDF viewer I've tried) selects whole lines when in text mode, and this is useless when the PDF has multi-column text.

However, these are very minor quibbles. I salute the developer. Thank you very much for a great product.  
(Version 1.1.13)

TLOESCH  Skim IMHO is the best PDF viewer for Mac. It has a small footprint and is pretty fast. And it has outstanding capabilties to annotate the PDF documents, of course.

FEATURE REQUEST

However, I'd be glad to see one feature added: the ability to save information entered into PDF forms. As far as I know there is no (inexpensive) program for Mac OS that does the trick - for Windows there's Foxit Reader (Wouldn't mind to be corrected here.)

Anyway, thanks for that nice peace of software.

Best regards,

Ture  
(Version 1.2)

KUSIKANKI  I've just downloaded skim and I think it has a great future! there are only two things that should be implemented so I definitely abandon annoying Adobe acrobat:

- the OCR Text Recognition (very very very useful with scanned documents)

- the ability of skim to recognize a two separate column document (most of the papers); when you select a few lines of the first column (for highlighting, for example) it spreads over the second one! and vice-versa... it's really annoying that selection, as if it was a one column only document...

However, great app!! congrats  
(Version 1.1.13)

PIXIEMOTION  The best PDF reader and notes taker I've ever tried.  
(Version 1.1.10)

FUNJOY  Powerful, fast free app that is regularly updated and strongly supported.  
(Version 1.1.10)

JAYCEE  I have just discovered Skim and I am currently running v24 (1.1.2) on a G4 1.33GHz 17 inch PowerBook running 10.5.2 in 2GB of RAM. The software is a delight to use and the developers are to be congratulated on producing a well written piece of software with a logical interface that is intuitive to understand. Skim is what Adobe Reader ought to have been. The annotation features are just great and Skim makes reading documents on screen, a pleasure. Skim contains an excellent feature set and it was a real bonus to discover that it can convert Postscript files to PDF format as well. My thanks to all on the development team.   
(Version 1.1.2)

MERRIMAC  This is really good software, but I stopped using it because I discovered that annotations are stored as separate files, rather than modifications of the PDF itself, which makes it difficult to share annotations with, for instance, PC users. If I do my annotations in Preview, on the other hand, the annotations become part of the PDF file itself and are transferable. (In fact, Preview annotations can even be further edited on PCs with software such as PDF X-Change.)

I'm sharing this point just so that people can make informed software choices on the basis of their needs. If I am wrong about this point, or if there is a simple workaround, please correct me.  
(Version 1.3.1)

MACHSPEED5  I love this reader and its keyboard shortcuts that help me breeze through PDFs. I certainly use it for other things despite the developers intended "scientific papers" use.

I use the magnifying feature very often (double and tripe click) and its frustrating having to hold the mouse button down for extended periods of time. Could you guys build in a toggle somehow? Preferably with a keystroke shortcut. That would rock.

Another thing is that it zooms back out when i reach the edges of the screen while zoomed in. That must be an irritating bug i assume?

All-in-all, this is a great piece of software, and I heartily recommend it without pause.

5 out of 5 and many thanks.  
(Version 1.2.3)