On Aug 8, 2013, at 20:23, Franz-Josef Knelangen wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm new to Skim and use it to compare a scanned 1st edition of a 19th century > German author (Ludwig Tieck, btw) with the proofs for a new PDF edition (that > will be given away for free to students - a commercial new edition died half > it's way and Tieck is *such* a fantastic author). > > 1st, I must say, I'm very impressed about what Skim does: > > + It saves the state of the 2 parallel windows and opens them exactly where I > leaved them. For this I thought I had to dig the preferences, but … nothing … > it just works! > > + It has a bunch of useful keyboard shortcuts so that I seldom have to leave > my fingers from the keyboard (Model M). > > So everything runs smoothly and nearly perfect and so I'll wonder what might > be left. My questions are (forgive if these already had been answered): > > + Is there a command for scrolls more than a line (arrow) and less than a > screenful (space)? >
No (and that's all standard Mac OSX.) > + Is Skim capable to scroll both windows at once? Is there a keyboard command > for that? > What do you mean by "both windows"? But whatever you mean, the answer is certainly no. The only thing that has some shared scrolling is for a notes window next to a presentation window (through the presentation options). > + Screen real estate is crucial for such comparing tasks therefore I do a > CMD+K on both windows before I go on: Is there a way that Skim recognizes the > "cropped state" of a document? > No, cropping is not saved. It is only saved when exporting with embedded notes. The reason is that we do not modify the PDF data, as that allows gong back to the original PDF and would lead to a host of problems, and cropping is part of that. > Thanks for providing such a useful program! > > Franz-Josef You're welcome Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
