I am using Skim to watch a PDF using the refresh mechanism.  Another
program creates the PDF and replaces it and Skim shows the changes so
I don't have to do any mousing.  (Automation is provided by my
atchange program, http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/atchange.html.)  This
works beautifully.  However, I often have documents that are entirely
in landscape mode, and for these I use the Rotate button in the tools
to switch the page I'm looking at.  Upon refresh Skim shows the same
page but the rotation is lost every time.  It seems to me that the
state of simultaneous rotation of ALL of the pages is only 2 bits
since there are 4 possible orientations.  Skim keeps an integer (the
current page) and a second integer should not be much trouble to
maintain too.  Then the pages would transparently remain rotated upon
refresh.

I reported this as a bug but Christiaan Hofman repeatedly closed it
without any explanation, claiming that it would take N bits for N
pages and that it would be very expensive.  That can't be right
because Skim remembers the page it was on already.  Is there someone
on this list who is willing to hold a reasonable conversation about
the issue?  Are there other developers for this beautiful software?

Thanks!

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
  National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
  Molecular Information Theory Group
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent)

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