Hi,
I have used Skim off and on for some years, just updated to the new version,
and appreciate a great deal of what the program offers. I drift back to
Preview at times but then get frustrated again with each new version and return
to Skim for a while. This relationship is a little like serial monogamy and I
am trying to figure out why I cannot commit to Skim as my lifelong partner (-:
The main reason I leave Skim is the clumsy file management it requires and so I
thought I would bring this up, perhaps as a topic long since discussed and put
to bed. So please point me at the answers, if they exist somewhere on this
list or the help pages.
The clumsy part, of course, is the need to export the file each time I wish to
save a version I can read with another pdf reader or send to another person. I
use pdf markup for all my grading, much of the markup of papers and grants I
collaborate on, and most anything else students or colleagues send to me for
comment. So I guess I am a power user or at least a committed user of pdf
markup tools. I have to share the results of those edits with others and most
others do not use Skim--and I am not likely to change this behavior. As a
result of need to share, I need to save conventional pdf files with the markup
embedded and visible. Skim makes this harder to do that I would like and I
wonder why the Skim designers figured their convention was useful. Why take a
portable document format and make is non-portable?
I try to be very careful about my workflow, saving the file each time through
the export path, then ignoring the complaints from SKim when I close the file.
But I have slipped up and I have lost edits and I have sent out strangely
unmarked files to my students. I really should not have to worry about this.
Why is the default not to save files with embedded markup? Can I change the
default somehow to make it save standard pdf files?
Thanks in advance for any guidance and counseling I might need to get over my
hump with Skim and finally make it the tool I use all the time.
Best
Rob
Rob MacLeod, PhD
Professor of Bioengineering and Internal Medicine
University of Utah
Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute
Comprehensive Arrhythmia Research and MAnagement (CARMA)
Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute (CVRT)
72 South Central Campus Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
Email: [email protected]
URL: www.sci.utah.edu/~macleod
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