On Feb 5, 2012, at 13:34, Charles Turner wrote: > Hi- > > Running the most recent version of Skim 1.3.19 (70), but I think this > goes back a bit farther. Skim's running on a MacPro 5,1 and Lion > 10.7.2. > > I work with scanned OCR'ed PDFs a lot: Fujitsu page scanner, Acrobat > to clean up and DEVONthink/AABBYY to OCR. I often use Option-select to > highlight areas of text in these PDFs. > > Here's what happens (I'm surprised I could screen capture it): > > In selecting a paragraph, everything seems fine: > > <http://vze26m98.net/skim/1-partial.png> > > But when I get to the paragraph's final line, WHICH DOESN'T EXTEND > FULLY TO THE RIGHT MARGIN: > > <http://vze26m98.net/skim/2-total.png> > > The "blue selection" disappears, although the selection rectangle remains. > > Then when I make my selection, the highlight is correctly filled: > > <http://vze26m98.net/skim/3-result.png> > > So all's OK. > > I know this is pretty much a cosmetic issue, but if you have much > experience with highlighting text on scanned PDFs, the OCR'ed text > frequently doesn't line up with the scan, so the "blue selection" > indication is often critical to obtaining the text you're after. > > Anyway, thanks for Skim: a lovely and useful application! > > Charles
Weird. But I cannot do anything about this. The selection is done by Apple's PDFKit code, including drawing it. So any bugs in that are Apple's and outside our control. Skim only comes in (for this action) after the selection is made, to add the highlight, and the result shows that the selection was correctly set. BTW, you seem to make things more confusing than they probably are, by talking about the highlight tool mode. You should get the same selection problem in text mode, which is a lot cleaner. Or you could compare the behavior in Preview, my guess is that you;d get the same problem. That always is a clear sign that it's Apple's problem. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
