Adam: Thanks for responding.
> Why not use the revert command through AppleScript or osascript to > reload the file? That is safer and more efficient than having Skim > watch it for changes. I suspect it's also possible to get/set the > rotation in that same script, but Christiaan would know for sure. I don't know how to do that but could look into it. Basically I want an PDF viewer that knows that the file has changed and refreshes on the same page. Skim (almost) does that. > > 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). The page rotation I am talking about is not part of the PDF data. I've said this repeatedly. It is rotation of the entire document from the button on the toolbar. Whatever you call it, it is not expected behavior. I expect that Skim will just refresh page 5 in the orientation I have set it to BY HAND. But instead it forgets that I rotated the page BY HAND. It does keep track of the page to display so it seems obvious that it can keep track of the overall document rotation that I have set BY HAND, just as I set the page to view BY HAND. I'd be happy to be correcdted on this but saying that's the way it is is not an explanation of the logic (or lack of) in the current implementation.. Let me try again. There are three kinds of rotations (at least). One is implemented in the original PostScript. Individual pages can be rotated. That's not what I'm talking about. Secondly there is an automatic page rotation that viewers can implement. I have blocked that when converting to PDF, that's not what I'm talking about. Third, there are tools that one can put in the toolbar to rotate the ENTIRE PDF for viewing. This does not alter the underlying PDF in any way, just how it is viewed. Therefore it is one parameter with four values that can be stored inside Skim along with the page number that we are currently viewing. This is the rotation I mean. When the PDF shows up, I rotate BY HAND the ENTIRE document. I expect it to stay rotated. > And with that in mind, if you're generating the PDF documents, why > not generate them with proper page rotation in the first place? The document is wide so that if I print it it will come out rotated. Sometimes I would do that, but it's not the issue at hand. 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 [email protected] [email protected] (permanent) http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
