Folks: I usually use Skim in the mode where it automatically updates when a PDF file changes:
defaults write -app Skim SKAutoReloadFileUpdate -boolean true This works beautifully on normal PDFs generated by LaTeX, allowing me to observe the typset results automatically. Now I'd like to have Skim watch PDFs modified on another computer and passed through dropbox (dropbox.com). However, Skim does not update on the files in the dropbox directory. I'm guessing that dropbox deletes the file and then writes a new one instead of overwriting and that Skim can only handle the latter. Is there a way to make Skim respond directly to modified PDF files in a dropbox directory? (Interestingly our atchange program does detect a change in the dropbox directory even through a soft link and if atchange is programmed to copy the PDF to a new location, Skim will update on the copy. The effect is that I can modify a PDF on my iPad with goodreader, sync and the copy PDF viewed by skim automatically changes on my computer screen. Of course it would be nice to avoid these extra steps.) Tom Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. Senior Investigator 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
