Christiaan:

> It is not an option. First of all, the PDF display, including the
> scroll view, is implemented by Apple, not by us.

But it exists in Skim under continuous mode and the jump version exists
with Adobe.

> Second, it is not a
> good idea, as it goes against the general way scroll views work, and
> consistency is a very bug deal in Mac OSX.

Since Apple dropped Expose and Spaces (well designed functions) and
replaced them with the impossible to use Mission Control, I don't have
much respect for Apple design capabilities anymore.  (Steve Jobs is
gone and they don't know what they are doing anymore.)  The function
exists in Adobe, it would be highly useful in Skim.

Compare:  currently if I have a 200 page document, to get to the end I
have to enter a number in the little box.  That's very awkward.  The
alternatives are worse - page down for a minute or two or switch to
continuous mode and then back again.  A sliding bar with discrete
intervals at page boundaries solves this simply and elegantly.

Try it yourself Christiaan!

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
  Senior Investigator
  National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  Center for Cancer Research
  Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
  Molecular Information Theory Group
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  http://schneider.ncifcrf.gov (current link)
  http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link)

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