On 12/13/10 9:49 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2010, at 15:04, Jason Grout wrote: > >> On 12/13/10 7:24 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >>> I think I found an acceptable solution, similar to what we do for >>> markup notes. The idea is that you can only select a note in freehand >>> tool mode by a simple click event (down-up, without a drag). After >>> selecting a note you can still edit, delete, or move/drag it, but >>> when nothing was selected, dragging the mouse/pen will draw, also >>> when it starts on top of a previous note, and new freehand notes >>> won't be initially selected. >> >> >> That sounds like it would be a great solution! I'd love to test it to >> see how it behaves in practice. Do you have a patch or SVN version number? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Jason > > current HEAD is 6971 >
I just tried it and in my limited immediate testing, it seems to work well. Thanks! I notice that if I have something selected in the freehand tool mode, hold down shift, and then draw somewhere else, a line is drawn between the end of the selected stroke and the beginning of the new stroke (so I get one joined path, rather than two disjoint paths). Is this intentional, or is it maybe an off-by-one error in creating the new path? To be consistent with the way shift-selecting freehand strokes works in the text tool, I would expect that having a stroke selected and holding shift while drawing another stroke would make a single object having two disjoint paths. In fact, a slight, but very intuitive (to me) extension of this could make things much better when writing notes on PDF files. It seems that right now, when I write something on a PDF, each separate stroke is a separate object, so if I decide to move the writing to a different place, or change the linestyle or color, I have to select each different letter, select each dot for an i or cross for a t, etc., and then I can change the color or style. If I can easily make an object with multiple paths (for example, I suggest by holding down shift as I write, which seems consistent with the existing behavior of the shift modifier joining paths), then it becomes much easier to modify or move the object. I simply hold down shift as I write a phrase or note, and then I can modify that entire phrase immediately since it is considered a single object. Thanks for your work on this! Already you've made Skim much more usable for annotating PDFs with freehand notes. Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
