Hi Buddy and Shaun,
Buddy asked: >You can click on links in Preview. The trick is knowing what actually >is hyperlinked as this is not announced. So what's this other app got >over preview? >On Mar 31, 2008, at 11:54 AM, vashaun jones wrote: >> Listers I ran across a PDF viewer that I would like to share. I >> don't know if it will allow us to click on links in a PDF but it's >> pretty full featured. It's name is Skim and you can find it at >> http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ Let me know how you guys like it. >> Yvonne Thompsen, who has pointed to a lot of great tips, originally posted about Skim to this list. Here's her post from last May. The main features mentioned are the note-taking capabilities. Of course, Preview under Leopard (not available at the time of her post) has been augmented, too. <begin quote> Anyway. I'm almost afraid to do this after the chaos I caused last time, but I've got a new application to mention. Please let me know if I'm doing too many of these things. This time, it's an alternative to preview called Skim. It's almost identical to preview, keystrokes, menus etc, with one major difference that's important to us as blind users, you can make notes inside your document. In other words, you're reading a computer book in your PDF reader, you come across an interesting bit of information, hit a hotkey and write a note. You can also annotate with boxes and circles etc, but I obviously haven't experimented much with this. Once you've got a bunch of notes, you can have an outline view of all your notes alongside your document if you want. You can also, as of the last version, export the notes as RTF files, complete with the page number the note was on. Again, it's completely accessible, controls have VO help, and it's free and open source. you can download it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/skim-app <end quote> Cheers, Esther
