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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
