On 03.02.2010, at 15:29, Duke Normandin wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Alex Hamann wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 03.02.2010, at 14:23, Duke Normandin wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 2, 2010, at 10:13, Giovanni Lanzani wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Duke Normandin <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello Developers....
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Any chance of adding the capability of setting the document background
>>>>>> color to something other than bright white?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> My eyes are getting old, and the current document bg color in Skim is
>>>>>> causing major hemorrhaging ;) TIA....
>>>>> 
>>>>> If that would be possible, I would second it immediatly :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Giovanni
>>>> 
>>>> Nope, that's not possible.
>>> 
>>> Why not? Adobe Reader has that feature - which is what I'm obliged to
>>> use - but I do miss Skim's annotation capabilities though. ;)
>>> --
>>> Duke
>> 
> 
>> Christiaan will correct me if necessary but that is probably because
>> Skim is based on Apple's pdfKit and not on the non-open-source Adobe
>> software.  Therefore Skim will unfortunately never be able to do
>> everything Acrobat Pro or even the Reader can - unless of course
>> Apple integrates it into pdfKit.
> 
> I assume you are implying that Apple's pdfKit is open-source? Then would
> not appKit be hackable then? Or is the API the only thing available to
> the developer?
> -- 
> duke



Sorry, can't provide definite answers those questions. My knowledge concerning 
this is fairly limited. But I think your latter assumption is correct.
Knowledgeables, please take it from me here. ;-)

A.
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