Nicole:

> I am a teacher and have been using skim to mark pdf files online. 
> Occasionally I get a PDF file that I can open in skim make my notes,
> and export as a pdf with embedded notes, but when I open this file
> with Adobe, I can't see the notes I made.  If I open it in Skim, the
> notes are still there.  It has happened on a few files but for the
> most part I can export the file with notes and I can see them just
> fine.  I don't know what I am doing wrong.  If you could please help
> me I would really appreciate it.

Skim keeps its notes in the file system, not in the PDF itself.  I
think this probably trips up every new user.  What you have to do is
"embed" the notes into the actual pdf.  I put a script at:

http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/ftp/skimembed

that you can use.

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
  301-846-5581
  http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent)

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