On Jan 5, 2011, at 22:08, Thomas Schneider wrote: > 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.
"Seems" is the keyword, I already told you it's not correct. Now if you don't want to believe me... > 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, No, the problem is that you won't accept my explanation (as you've confirmed here). > 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. I am not saying that the information is expensive. My point is that using this information is expensive. > 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 Moreover, this is NOT a bug. It's the way the program behaves. For good reasons. It also does exactly what you ask it to do: reload the data from disk (page rotation is part of the PDF data). A bug report list is NOT a place for discussion. So you should not expect me to use it for discussion, especially if it is not even about a bug. And adding lots of duplicate bug reports does NOT help your case, quite to the contrary. Moreover, I've said before, I'm not going into lengthy and frustrating back-and-forths anymore, where I have to repeat arguments that are subsequently ignored, and the conclusion has already been drawn. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
