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DESCRIPTION
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for 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.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.2.3:
- You can now save PostScript and DVI with attached Skim notes.
- Change hidden default for the full screen and presentation navigation behavior, allow disabling it.
- Add a zoom slider in the full screen navigation controls.
- Workaround for Leopard's buggy identification of file types.
- Fix selection behavior of toolbar buttons on Tiger.
- Fix activation of line wells in notes preferences.
- Increase minimum size of page column in snapshots table.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Skim User Reviews (41 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jun 9 2009 |
MUGENB16 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) | |
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| May 6 2009 |
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) | |
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 | Jun 9 2009 |
MACBOOKPRO The developer states it is "designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF." Why criticize MU? The developer does further state it can be used for reviewing any PDF file. But, because of your rating, I am going to check it out. Thanks.
(Version 1.2.3) | |
| Jun 9 2009 |
SAMPLER MU uses the description that the developers use. See: http://sourceforge.net/projects/skim-app/ I, like you, also almost never open Adobe Reader now.
(Version 1.2.3) | |
| Jun 9 2009 |
HOFMAN Saying that it's designed for scientific papers is not the same as saying that this is its only use, but the latter is what the MU summary implies. The description on the Skim website also clearly qualifies the statement. So either please add a qualification to the summary or, better, remove the "for scientific papers" entirely. Also, I can propose a change for everything on the listings on MU except for this summary. Why not?
(Version 1.2.3) | |
| Feb 13 2009 |
IMINI Great app - best PDF reader on OSX! And much more.
(Version 1.2.1) | |
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| Feb 14 2009 |
IMINI Second review of the same app. But somehow all reviews have disappeared for some time (at least they where not there on 13th of Feb). Anyway, Skim is worth 2 x 5 stars :)
(Version 1.2.1) | |
| Feb 4 2009 |
IMINI The best PDF reader for Mac.
(Version 1.2.1) | |
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| Jan 7 2009 |
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. 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. | |
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| Feb 2 2009 |
ODYSSEUS pdfpen is fairly inexpensive.
(Version 1.2.1) | |
 | Feb 2 2009 |
MSWFUJOWDFFYC If you're looking to fill in PDF forms, even those that don't have form fields, check out FormulatePro http://code.google.com/p/formulatepro/. It works great, and it's free.
(Version 1.2.1) | |
| Dec 15 2008 |
TEKL Why not add the free SimpleOCR to Skim? http://www.simpleocr.com/
(Version 1.2) | |
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| Dec 25 2008 |
HOFMAN Many reasons, here are just a few. It's windows-only. The free version is almost certainly not sufficient for useful integration in a PDF viewer. Apple's PDFKit does not allow sufficient control over its internals to add any OCR "layer".
(Version 1.2) | |
| Nov 2 2008 |
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) | |
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| Nov 2 2008 |
MIKELAMBRELLIS I just figured out how to do what I wanted in point 1 above. Open ~/Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.plist in Property List Editor. Expand the Root node. Expand the SKDefaultPDFDisplaySettings node. Set autoScales to Yes (this achieves the automatic fitting to display). Set displayMode to 0 (this turns off Continuous display). Set displayPageBreaks to No. Given that I have another year to go of study, this has just saved me several hundred mouseclicks. It would still be nice if the app would remember its settings without having to edit the property list :-)
(Version 1.1.13) | |
 | Nov 4 2008 |
HOFMAN For 1, simply choose "Use Current view Settings as Default" from the PDF menu. For 2, you can block-select by holding the Option key (this is standard selection behavior in Cocoa apps). Also read the FAQ on the Skim wiki for more tips with regards to this.
(Version 1.1.13) | |
| Nov 4 2008 |
Sorry for that. I honestly hadn't noticed about the save as default view. I also didn't know about the "option" select. Is that true for all apps? Cool. Anyway, that eliminates the only objection I had. The app is now officially perfect. Well done!
(Version 1.1.13) | |
| Oct 5 2008 |
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) | |
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| Oct 25 2008 |
BRUMM - 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... Yes, I agree, that would be very very useful!
(Version 1.1.13) | |
| Nov 4 2008 |
HOFMAN Acceptable (free) OCR is not possible for free and within the contraints of Apple's PDFKit, unfortunately. For column selections, use the Option key, read the FAQ on the wiki for more details. This is also behavior dictaed by Aple's PDFKit, so if you'd want this to improve more than what Skim is capable of, you should ask Apple.
(Version 1.1.13) | |
 | Aug 5 2008 |
FAKE IT It works great except when i update my mac osx leopard to 10.5.4, i couldn't export any notes. everytime i try to export, nothing come up. Please fix the bug. thanks
(Version 1.1.10) | |
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| Jul 29 2008 |
PIXIEMOTION The best PDF reader and notes taker I've ever tried.
(Version 1.1.10) | |
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