On 08.01.2010, at 03:44, Geoff Garver wrote:

> Hi,
> I really like Skim!  I'm a student and have used it to highlight and take 
> notes for the last term.  However, I just ran into a problem.  When I try to 
> engage the text tool, the scroll tool engages.  This makes it impossible to 
> block text for highlighting.  I tried re-booting, erasing and re-downloading, 
> and downloading version 1.2.6, but the problem remained.
> 
> It may be that this happens only on some PDF documents.
> 
> Can you help?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Geoff 
> 

Hi,

do those files have text embedded or just a picture?
In some cases pdfs contain pictures that may or may not show text but skim will 
only know about the text if you run the pdf through a OCR program (optical 
character recognition).
If you have no such program (Adobe Acrobat can do it, Abby Fine Reader too) 
there is no way to highlight text in such a file.

Alex
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