I recently got a Bamboo pen tablet and started using Skim to write notes on pdf files using the freehand annotation tool. As pointed out in an earlier mailing list thread [1], Skim has some design choices that make this very frustrating, namely that:
1. in freehand annotation mode, putting the pen down on a stroke you've drawn selects and moves the stroke instead of drawing another stroke, and 2. the last stroke written is always selected (so blue boxes keep appearing over the last thing wrote as you are writing). I've made a github clone of Skim and taken care of these two issues with two small patches [2]. Using my patched version, it is very natural and easy to write freehand notes on a PDF file. I just thought I'd post here in case anyone else is interested in using these patches or the patched version. The github site is: https://github.com/jasongrout/skim/tree/tablet (my patches are on the tablet branch) Christiaan, in the thread mentioned above, you say, "This discussion has been held to death, I don't like to keep repeating the same check list over and over again." I wasn't around for the checklist that you mention, and I've spent a while searching for it with no results. If it's not too inconvenient, I'm really curious to hear why those two design decisions listed above were made and why they can't be reconsidered. Regardless, thanks for making Skim open-source so that people like me can make small tweaks so that Skim is usable for us! Thanks, Jason [1] See the thread http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01903.html [2] First patch is https://github.com/jasongrout/skim/commit/c57ad0d390490eac074084de9e923ecea620e4c9. The second patch is https://github.com/jasongrout/skim/commit/57f6f56295c9e3fb03f4476b226790134da2f1e4. The source with patches applied can be downloaded from https://github.com/jasongrout/skim/zipball/tablet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
