Version 1.7.6
New Features
- Add an option to draw the image of an anchored icon.
- AppleScript support for anchored note image.
- Paste image data to add an image anchored note.
- Drop an image file to add an image anchored note.
- Allow choosing an image for an anchored note.
Bugs Fixed
- Make sure new documents can open automatically resizing.
- Fix converting text annotations to Skim notes on some systems.
- Reduce maximum width for page columns.
Version 1.7.5
New Features
- Add a preview feature when setting presentation page transitions.
Bugs Fixed
- Crop converted .eps images.
- Use floating points for note paths in AppleScript.
- Use 20 as maximum scale.
- Change display in presentation mode, smoother page change.
- Fix navigation by right arrow in presentation mode.
- Undo page rotations by gestures as a whole.
- Fix whole word search on recent OS versions.
Version 1.7.4
New Features
- Return line selection from 'get selection for' script command with a single point.
- TeX editor presets for Sublime Text 3 & 4.
- New option to always select new notes.
- Expose option to set the text of new notes or update the text of dragged notes.
Bugs Fixed
- Put new anchored notes in the margins next to a selection.
- Ignore notes for content rect, e.g. to crop.
- Fix note highlight drawing while dragging with scroll bars shown.
- Fix drop highlight on notes.
- Fix display while drawing freehand notes under certain conditions.
- Allow setting scale factor in range appropriate for document.
- Support customized colors for custom pointers.
- Allow selecting new markup by selecting word or line.
- Slower default reading pacer speed.
- Let reading pacer wait by number of lines in reading bar at the end.
Version 1.7.3
New Features
- Add menus to Colors, Fonts, and Lines toolbar items.
Bugs Fixed
- Restore tabs after presentation.
- Safer transition from Full Screen to presentation and vice versa.
- Avoid deprecated screenshot method for full screen transitions.
- Fix some Spaces behavior for windows involving full screen.
- Fix images in anchored notes.
- Make sure images are drawn at correct resolution.
Version 1.7.2
New Features
- Allow highlighting all search results, through context menu.
- Allow displaying thumbnails or contents while searching.
- Add swipe actions to show/hide or delete in snapshot table.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix repeated PDF-TeX syncing.
- Allow fractional duration in presentation tradition field.
- Allow warnings to be visible when editing transitions in presentation mode.
- Reorganize menus.
- Improve page navigation by swiping in single page mode.
- Fix text baseline in toolbar.
- Don't change Automatically Resize from fitting links.
- Fix page background in magnify tool.
- Fix crash when entering Presentation from a document that is full screen and tabbed.
Version 1.7.1
New Features
- Change defaults when changing text note font while holding Shift.
- Change defaults when changing note line attributes while holding Shift.
Bugs Fixed
- Work around initial page navigation bug on newer OS systems.
- Fix string cleaning for highlights and search.
- Tweak scrolling by page amount.
Version 1.7
NOTE: macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and earlier are no longer supported as of 1.7
New Features
- Update Sparkle updater, enhanced security.
- Hidden shortcut ',' in Presentation mode to show the cursor settings.
Bugs Fixed
- Tweak links that implicitly fit the target.
- Improve initial print panel settings.
- Try to fix certain relative links.
- Fix snapshot thumbnails on newer OS systems.
- Fix presentation page transitions on newer OS systems.
- Improve full screen animation.
- Fix Windows menu layout.
- Remove deprecated Greeking Threshold and Anti-Alias preferences.
- Fix exiting Presentation after adding multiple temporary freehand notes.
- Allow dvi and ps conversion command from homebrew.
- Allow PostScript transparency commands for ps2pdf from regular installations.
- Fix restoring scroll location in PDF.
- Better feedback when dragging multiple pages from Overview.
Version 1.6.21
Bugs Fixed
- Allow clicking links in note tool mode.
- Improve undo in presentation mode.
- Make sure committing text note edits is undone separately from adding notes.
- More efficient loading of documents with many notes.
- Prevent note edits when interaction settings don't allow it.
- Make sure forward search updates the correct document.
- Support transparency in PostScript conversion on Sonoma.
Version 1.6.20
Bugs Fixed
Version 1.6.19
New Features
- Switch to 2-up mode when changing book mode or RTL.
- Add UI to change the cursor in presentation; move the cursor to the bottom.
- Allow drawing temporary freehand notes in presentation mode, removed when closing.
Bugs Fixed
- Show preview tooltips only when the main window is key.
- Option to remove shadow in laser pointer cursor added by Night Shift.
- Fix retrieving saved passwords.
Version 1.6.18
Bugs Fixed
- Fix page selection in overview in presentation mode.
- Change shortcut for Show/Hide Toolbar to standard one.
- Allow linking on older systems.
- Reduce animation target frame for fullscreen with main menu showing.
Version 1.6.17
New Features
- New hidden preference to adjust the white point, to modify the white page background.
- AppleScript support for adjusted white point preference.
- Make spelling and grammar check options sticky in note text areas.
- Hidden preference on Sonoma for PostScript conversion tool to use.
Bugs Fixed
- Make Spelling menu consistent with current standard.
- Try to scroll back to page after large layout change immediately.
- Fix page preview in presentation.
- Improve efficiency of overview for large documents.
- Fix text note alignment on Apple Silicon.
- Use command line tools on Sonoma to convert PostScript documents.
- Correct relative links in PDF bundles.
- Fix displayed pages in magnify tool.
Version 1.6.16
New Features
- Allow selecting multiple pages in Overview for copying.
Bugs Fixed
- Support reduced motion accessibility option.
- Show search match in status bar.
- Support links that zoom or fit the PDF.
- Fix some localized terms.
- Fix touch bars for some sheets.
- Fix page navigation on 10.12.
- Allow choosing new file for bookmarks through contextual menu.
Version 1.6.15
New Features
- Display edited form fields in Skim notes documents.
- Simplify Lines panel.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix remembering of export options in export panel.
- Avoid a slowdown in opening of documents with many pages.
- Prevent jump when scrolling using keys.
- Scroll to current page also on 10.12.
- Fix glitch in first presentation page transition.
- Make sure selected font wells control the font panel.
Version 1.6.14
New Features
- Add option to display line script and go script command to not select text.
- Allow resizing freehand notes, press Shift to resize proportionally.
- Expose preference for using sequential rather than logical page numbers.
- Expose preference for adding author name to new notes, also through AppleScript.
Bugs Fixed
- Don't draw page shadows when not showing page breaks.
- Fix freehand note selection highlight on rotated pages.
- Try to target current page on low zoom when scrolling to a page.
- Clear user name for new Skim notes by default.
- Highlight full line for reading bar.
- Fix export panel on macOS 13.
Version 1.6.13
New Features
- Move reading by by double clicking on it.
Bugs Fixed
- Workaround for initial auto resizing problems.
- Only show reading bar when there are lines to highlight.
- Write text representations of URLs to the clipboard.
- Improve scrolling bug workarounds.
- Fix reading pacer at higher zoom.
- Improve workarounds to restore scroll position.
- Make sure magnify is updated in some cases.
Version 1.6.12
New Features
- Allow "+" button to open a document in the tab bar.
- Select tab using shortcuts Option-Command-number.
- Allow creating setup bookmarks from scripting by passing the file of a document.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix use of undefined material on 10.13.
- Avoid bug in accessibility support.
- Improve accessibility.
Version 1.6.11
New Features
- Let content shine through title bar and search bars.
- New AppleScript property for the scroll position.
- Make reading bar added through SyncTeX temporary.
- Scripting support for reading bar.
Bugs Fixed
- Make sure page history is registered in horizontal scrolling mode.
- Fix ordering of characters and notes on rotated pages.
Version 1.6.10
New Features
- Copy text from active markup notes.
- New hidden preference to collapse all sub levels of the table of contents.
- Attempt to recombine hyphenated words in cleaned selection string.
- Find backwards on Shift-Enter.
- Write Skim notes in plist format by default, unless writing legacy notes.
- New hidden preference to write Skim notes as archived data.
- Allow getting initial view settings from the PDF.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix default reading bar color.
- Fix sync command for homebrew Emacs for M1 macs.
- Workaround for page navigation bug in horizontal layout mode on older systems.
- Fix close button action in presentation mode.
Version 1.6.9
New Features
- New sync preset for Nova.
- Allow autosizing notes from menu.
- Preserve color space for preference colors.
- Use sRGB colors as defaults.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix crasher when auto resizing note columns.
- Fix and improve some transition effects.
- Avoid slowdown when dragging notes while the notes table is displayed.
Version 1.6.8
New Features
- Placeholder in TeX editor command arguments for zero-based line numbers.
- Select an area to zoom to after choosing Zoom to Selection.
- Select text to mark up after choosing to add a markup note.
- Draw freehand note after choosing to add a freehand note.
- Always select location or area for which to create a snapshot.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix Right to Left toolbar button.
- Add full workaround for macOS 12.1 scripting support bug.
- Fix the style of the help pages.
Version 1.6.7
New Features
- New option to displayline script to use zero-based lines.
- Rewrite scripting support for note and display preferences.
- Replace 'get...for' script command by a single 'obtain' command.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix initial fit to PDF.
- Tweak inverted colors in dark mode.
- Allow using texLines class in JXA scripts.
- Fix join script command.
- Remove non working support for page background color.
- Work around scripting support bug in macOS 12.1.
Version 1.6.6
New Features
- New preference to invert colors in dark mode.
- New hidden preference to add a sepia tone effect, accessible through AppleScript.
- Save user defined cropping in setup and session bookmarks.
- New toolbar items for Automatically resize and Split PDF.
Bugs Fixed
- Workaround for layout problems of tables on older systems.
- Fix layout issues for info window.
- Improve drawing efficiency for search results grouped by page.
- Remove shortcuts for marked pages.
- Support undo for text editing of text notes.
Version 1.6.5
New Features
- Save bookmarks and recent file info using modern bookmark format.
- New hidden action to reset the page cropping.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix deleting bookmarks from contextual menu.
- Fix font size preferences.
- Fix offset of preview tool tips.
- Fix contextual menu for the PDF.
- Prevent removal of all favorite colors.
- Fix resetting the current page after cropping all pages.
Version 1.6.4
New Features
- Hidden preference to not fill new notes with the selected text.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix auto size of note rows.
- Reinstate history highlights on Big Sur.
- Make sure initial PDF view setting are committed.
- Hide preview tool tips when scrolling.
- Improve preview tool tips pointing to the right hand side.
Version 1.6.3
New Features
- GateKeeper safe.
- New document icons for Big Sur.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix application icon on older systems.
- Ignore useless spotlight search text from Finder.
- Fix toolbar search field layout on older systems.
Version 1.6.2
New Features
- New hidden preference to set the scale for the preview tool tips.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix document icons on Big Sur.
- Don't animate search highlights every time search results are found.
- Fix document file icons.
- Fix shadow for preview tool tips on Big Sur.
- Make presentation mode navigation always dark on Big Sur.
- Fix page navigation when using horizontal layout on Big Sur.
- Ignore errors reading notes from unsupported external volumes.
Version 1.6.1
New Features
- New application icon.
- Quicklook support for PostScript files.
- Scale preview tool tips with current factor.
Bugs Fixed
- Don't try to mount external volumes to check recent documents.
- Fix response to opening a large number of documents at startup.
- Separate window title on Big Sur.
- Avoid exception when setting up info window.
Version 1.6
NOTE: OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and earlier are no longer supported as of 1.6
New Features
- Native support for Apple Silicon.
- Allow setting initial PDF view settings from preferences.
- Allow reading modern bookmarks format.
- Allow placeholder %urlfile in sync command for percent encoded file.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix menu form representation of Favorite Colors toolbar item.
- Fix some localized terms.
- Allow typing scale without percent sign.
- Bold search term in search results.
- No support for legacy full screen mode.
- Fix for opening locked PDFs.
Version 1.5.13
New Features
- Implement Jump to Selection action.
- New color picker touch bar item.
- New menu item to focus on the note filter field.
- Make table of contents scriptable.
- Allow graphics in rich text of anchored notes.
Bugs Fixed
- Avoid drawing artifacts for page history highlights.
- Fix auto expansion notes pane in legacy full screen mode.
- Fix layout issues after loading a password locked PDF.
- Fix reading of generalized rich text from plist data.
Version 1.5.12
New Features
- Add PDF-TeX sync preset for EmacsMac.
- Add display mode settings for horizontal layout.
- Add display mode setting for RTL in two up display.
- Scroll to a snapshot using Command-click or a contextual menu item.
- Include favorite colors in color panel.
- Modernize UI.
- Change default background colors.
- Hidden preference to disable search bar blurring, for more efficient scrolling.
Bugs Fixed
- Workaround for crasher when using a shortcut on 10.13.
- Fix crasher when closing document after expanding note table.
Version 1.5.11
New Features
- Auto size circle and box notes around selection.
- Hit '?' to view hidden shortcuts.
- Change laser pointer cursor in presentation by hitting 'c'.
- Support reading Skim notes in plist format.
- New hidden preference to save Skim notes in plist format.
- Support for Skim notes in plist format in skimNotes and SkimPDF tools.
Bugs Fixed
- Different shortcuts for changing pacer speed.
- Workaround for disabling menu items after entering password.
- Fix response to opening a large number of documents.
Version 1.5.10
New Features
- Highlight search results in image tool tips.
- Change default color when Shift-clicking favorite color in note tool mode.
- Separate preference for image smoothing.
- Display laser pointer cursor in Presentation.
- Toggle laser pointer cursor in Presentation by hitting 'l'.
- Show contents pane in Presentation by hitting 't'.
Bugs Fixed
- Only archive file to share when there are notes.
- Don't call arbitrary phone numbers.
- Remove outdated help topics.
- Fix crasher on OS versions older than 10.10.
- Increase default pacer speed.
Version 1.5.9
New Features
- Save edits to form elements.
- Replace email functionality with more generic share functions.
- Add Share toolbar button.
- Allow process switching in Presentation mode, useful for online presentations.
- New hidden preference to allow resizing the Presentation window.
- Ask to replace a new bookmark when using an existing label.
Bugs Fixed
- Activate editor from display line script after showing document.
- Smoother presentation transitions.
- Fix selection in presentation transition sheet.
Version 1.5.8
New Features
- Reading pacer to automatically scroll through the document, or move the reading bar.
- New toolbar item for reading pacer.
Bugs Fixed
- Escape double-quotes in e-mail AppleScript.
- Fix drawing of anchored note icons on 10.13 and 10.14.
- Fix workaround for 10.12 selection bug.
- Fix shortcuts for auto-sizing text note for some keyboard layouts.
- Fix crasher on commit for newer OS versions.
Version 1.5.7
NOTE: If you need attached notes to be read by older versions of Skim (before 1.5.4), you should choose to write legacy Skim notes in the General preferences.
New Features
- New feature showing an overview of all pages.
- Shortcuts Control-= and Option-Control-= to auto size text notes (ignoring width).
- Text note editing respects newlines (Tab commits, Option-Tab inserts tab).
- Allow using note resize shortcuts when editing text note.
- Write syncable Skim notes by default (preserved by iCloud).
- New preference to write legacy Skim notes.
- SkimNotes and SkimPDF tools now write syncable Skim notes by default.
- New hidden preference to include newlines from the selection in the default note text.
- Contextual menu item to bring a note to the front for selection of overlapping notes.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix opening Skim notes documents from Finder on Catalina.
- Fix some Japanese terms.
- Workaround for crash when converting notes with popups.
- Workaround for layout bugs when opening a locked PDF file.
- Fix text note layout during edit.
- Make sure edits in the notes table are committed before e.g. saving.
Version 1.5.6
New Features
- Choose favorite colors from contextual menu.
- Add search history to PDF search field.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix setting interior or text colors of notes.
- Fix opening documents with a large number of pages.
- Improved dark mode colors for PDF scroll bars.
- Fix some Japanese terms.
- Fix some Chinese terms.
- Fix Services from the PDF.
Version 1.5.5
New Features
- Add search text to Skim URL.
Bugs Fixed
- Use standard localization names.
- Regularly save open document info in case of a crash.
- Fix presentation mode background on Catalina.
- Fix writing an archive for export or e-mail.
- Fix syncable option for skimpdf command line tool.
- Fix thread safety when going to and from presentation mode.
- Work around Catalina bug in thread safety during drawing.
- Work around background color bug on Catalina.
- Fix dark mode PDF background color.
Version 1.5.4
New Features
- Allow reading syncable Skim notes from extended attributes.
- New hidden preference to write syncable Skim notes to extended attributes.
- Allow skimnotes and skimpdf tools to read, write and convert syncable Skim notes.
Bugs Fixed
- Workaround for text note editing on Catalina.
- Fix preferences for line note line ending styles.
Version 1.5.3
New Features
- Show separate submenu with bookmarks for the current document.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix exported rich text from template.
- Allow exporting notes as text when buggy MacVim is installed.
- Allow changing units in status bar.
- Don't perform standard launch procedures when opening a file or URL.
- Use proper scale for toolbar in text only mode.
- Fix zoom touch bar buttons.
- Fix localizations of favorite colors label.
- Restore tabs also when always preferring tabs.
Version 1.5.2
New Features
- Hidden preference to show the magnification tool only with the mouse pressed.
- Allow showing current page on separate screen during presentation.
- Show presentation and presentation notes on different displays if possible.
- Add next page button in the presentation notes document.
Bugs Fixed
Fix crasher from tool tip of setup bookmarks.
Fix table row heights.
Make sure tables are cleaned up when closing a document.
Improve layout in some windows.
Fix table for skim notes document.
Improve layout.
Fix crasher when showing next page during presentation.
Hide menu bar on secondary screen during presentation.
Fix some tool tips in dark mode.
Version 1.5.1
Bugs Fixed
- Fix print panel accessory view.
- Fix layout of accessory views.
Version 1.5
NOTE: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) is no longer supported as of 1.5
New Features
- Add multiple markup notes when selection spans more than one page.
- Improve magnify tool, click to toggle display instead of dragging the mouse.
- Custom skim: URL scheme to support opening files or bookmarks in Skim.
- Function Copy URL to copy a skim: URL.
- Save archive through Export function.
- Update updater to latest version.
- Use new download API if available.
- Automatically hide and show snapshot and split PDF controls with mouse.
- Improve interaction with tables.
- Support for touch bar.
- Allow modifying the favorite colors in the preferences.
- Allow previewing the next slide as presentation notes.
- Improved presentation transitions.
- Embed a number of custom presentation transitions.
Bugs Fixed
- Set text color in templates for dark mode.
- Search when opening a file with a search text.
- Use a fresh copy for saving or emailing an archive or disk image.
- Drop support for saving or emailing disk images.
- Improve table displays.
- Fix dragging promised files on 10.14.
- Use updated methods to get file sizes and use modern units.
- Run Scripts Menu scripts without interfering with the application.
- Don't coalesce undo for editing the text of a note and other edits.
- Disable private system presentation transitions.
- Workaround for system cursor bugs in presentation mode.
Version 1.5
New Features
- Add multiple markup notes when selection spans more than one page.
- Improve magnify tool, click to toggle display instead of dragging the mouse.
- Custom skim: URL scheme to support opening files or bookmarks in Skim.
- Function Copy URL to copy a skim: URL.
- Save archive through Export function.
- Update updater to latest version.
- Use new download API if available.
- Automatically hide and show snapshot and split PDF controls with mouse.
- Improve interaction with tables.
- Support for touch bar.
- Allow modifying the favorite colors in the preferences.
- Allow previewing the next slide as presentation notes.
- Improved presentation transitions.
- Embed a number of custom presentation transitions.
Bugs Fixed
- Set text color in templates for dark mode.
- Search when opening a file with a search text.
- Use a fresh copy for saving or emailing an archive or disk image.
- Drop support for saving or emailing disk images.
- Improve table displays.
- Fix dragging promised files on 10.14.
- Use updated methods to get file sizes and use modern units.
- Run Scripts Menu scripts without interfering with the application.
- Don't coalesce undo for editing the text of a note and other edits.
- Disable private system presentation transitions.
- Workaround for system cursor bugs in presentation mode.
Version 1.4.41
Bugs Fixed
- Fix displayline with reading bar.
- Fix display of page numbers in tables.
- Fix dark mode background problems in tables.
Version 1.4.40
Bugs Fixed
- Fix a crasher in the notes table.
- Fix a bug in synctex.
Version 1.4.39
New Features
- Support for languages with non standard line ordering.
- Separate PDF background colors for light and dark mode.
- Support dragging text from split PDF.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix typo in French localization.
- Change layout of Downloads window.
- Allow asking permission to use scripting to access other apps.
- Fix preference controls for dark mode.
- Reduce transparency of drag images.
- Fix page jump after switching full screen modes.
Version 1.4.38
New Features
- Remember tabs for last open documents and session bookmarks.
- Remember tabs for snapshots.
Bugs Fixed
- Avoid a page reset after a reload.
- Rewind the page after some changes to layout.
- Fix text color of release notes in dark mode.
- Fix text color of edited anchored notes.
- Fix text color of anchored notes text in notes table.
- Some more tweaks of colors for dark mode.
- Allow reverting dark mode background colors.
- Substitute font for toolbar buttons when the font is not available.
Version 1.4.37
New Features
- New PDF sync preset for Alpha.
- Remember downloads between sessions.
- Extend select script command.
- Improved display of contents tables.
- New script command to get a selection from a rectangle or two points
- Improved favorite colors control.
- Enable dark mode on Mojave.
Bugs Fixed
- Use document from tell block when clearing selection in AppleScript.
- Hopefully fix saving last viewed page on some older systems.
- More reliable display of downloads progress.
Version 1.4.36
New Features
- New PDF-sync preset for Visual Studio Code
- New template keys for some global values.
- Ask user for confirmation before reopening a huge number of files.
- Template keys for date formats.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix saving of last open page and snapshots on 10.11 and 10.12.
- Fix a crasher on closing a document on 10.10.
- Fix a crasher in synctex forward search on 10.11.
- Always monitor target file for changes when opening a symlink.
- Auto-hide toolbar in fullscreen on 10.7 by default.
Version 1.4.35
New Features
- Allow dragging selected text.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix writing extended attributes for very large notes data.
- Fix crasher when immediately ending text note editing.
- Let system code handle scrolling to a location, should be fixed in 10.13.4.
- Set a maximum width for page columns.
- Fix scrolling on 10.12.
Version 1.4.34
Bugs Fixed
- Fix of bug while saving larger notes data to extended attributes.
Version 1.4.33
New Features
- Allow running convert notes AppleScript command to run synchronously.
Bugs Fixed
- More efficient cleanup of objects.
- Avoid UI issues when opening a locked document.
- Reduce zoom level from Zoom To Fit on 10.12 to help scrolling.
- Update synctex support to latest version to fix some bugs.
- Workaround for bug when changing line notes.
- Fix reading in notes when the document is password protected.
- Allow adding notes on commenting protected PDFs.
- Fix online help.
- Fix a hang when trying to read corrupted notes data.
Version 1.4.33
New Features
- Allow running convert notes AppleScript command to run synchronously.
Bugs Fixed
- More efficient cleanup of objects.
- Avoid UI issues when opening a locked document.
- Reduce zoom level from Zoom To Fit on 10.12 to help scrolling.
- Update synctex support to latest version to fix some bugs.
- Workaround for bug when changing line notes.
- Fix reading in notes when the document is password protected.
- Allow adding notes on commenting protected PDFs.
- Fix online help.
- Fix a hang when trying to read corrupted notes data.
Version 1.4.32
New Features
- Allow text select tool in split PDF feature.
- Add straight line segments in freehand notes by holding the Option key.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix some minor leaks.
- More efficient note conversion.
- Fix selection of overlapping notes.
- Fix size of toolbar buttons.
- Fix toolbar buttons.
- Fix clearing of selection on 10.13.
- Work around automatic scrolling issues on 10.13.
- Work around ATS bug in 10.11, to allow downloading new versions
- Improve app transport security on (High) Sierra.
- Always clear selection after adding markup notes.
- Improve custom cursor images.
- Improve thread safety.
Version 1.4.31
New Features
- Preference to reload changed files automatically.
- Allow switching between Full Screen and Presentation on High Sierra.
- New hidden preference to display page bounds in the status bar.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix returning to position on Sierra.
- Fix some localizations.
- Fix preview tool tips for links and anchored notes.
Version 1.4.30
Bugs Fixed
- Improve thread safety.
- More efficient thumbnail drawing.
- Update SyncTeX code to latest, fixes a crasher.
- Workaround for forward search on High Sierra.
- Work around problems returning to remembered position.
- Draw anchored notes on High Sierra.
- Fix export accessory view on High Sierra.
- Fix thread safe drawing on High Sierra.
- Fix anchored note icon type on High Sierra.
- Fix freehand note highlights on High Sierra.
- Fix dash patterns in line style.
Version 1.4.29
Bugs Fixed
- Ensure anchored notes are really removed on 10.12.4.
- Correct pinch zoom in snapshots and split PDF.
- Fix a crasher when adding or removing a note.
- Improve thread safety.
- Don't scroll after PDF synchronisation when line is visible.
Version 1.4.28
IMPORTANT NOTE: Unfortunately the built-in updater may not work in 1.4.27, so please download the new version from the website, which you can find from the Help menu.
New Features
- Alternate menu items to zoom to physical size in contextual menus.
- Edit text notes quicker.
- Zoom to physical size from contextual menu with Option key.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix Cut action from contextual menu.
- Workaround for a serious PDFKit leak.
- Fix some leaks.
- Don't allow split PDF or snapshot to disable the main PDF view on 10.12.
- Make sure various PDF views show the correct contextual menus.
- Customizable page background color on 10.12 now completely ignored.
Version 1.4.27
New Features
- Display marked up text in the note table.
- Expand or collapse all items in note table by holding the Option key.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix updating of preview tooltip areas on older systems.
- Change shortcuts for changing tool modes to Option-arrow.
- Remember scroll position for marked pages.
- Fix page rotation through gestured.
- Fix shadow in images on retina displays.
- Only allow secure downloads.
- Draw anchored notes on 10.12 in snapshots and split PDF view.
- Fix to allow non-bordered text notes on 10.12.
- Display alternate anchored note icons on 10.12.
- Ensure black background in Presentation mode.
- Fix drag highlights.
- Improve compatibility with tabs.
- Better suppress prompt for update checking.
- Fix the ordering of quadrilateral points for markup notes.
- Bring back for Services support on 10.12.
Version 1.4.26
Bugs Fixed
- Enable graphics card switching.
- Fix side pane animation.
- Workaround for drawing anchored notes.
- Fix scrolling in single page mode on 10.12.
- Fix redrawing the PDF after changes on 10.12.
- Allow background searching of the PDF on 10.12, as this should be fixed now.
- Fix link previews on 10.12.
- Fix some images.
Version 1.4.25
New Features
- Add PDF-TeX sync preset for AlphaCocoa.
- New shortcuts for first and last page.
Bugs Fixed
- Allow background drawing in PDF view on 10.12 to prevent sluggishness.
- Tweak some toolbar items.
- Allow PDF-TeX sync preset for BBEdit to work without installing the tool.
- Prevent drawing tweaks in preference window.
- Fix restoring scroll location in non-continuous mode.
Version 1.4.24
Bugs Fixed
- Don't hide window content of behind toolbar and title bar.
Version 1.4.23
Bugs Fixed
- Re-enable support for custom page background when supported.
- Fix SyncTeX forward search.
- Allow background drawing in PDF view to prevent sluggishness on 10.12.
- Dirty slightly larger areas to compensate for rounding errors on 10.12.
Version 1.4.23
Bugs Fixed
- Re-enable support for custom page background when supported.
- Fix SyncTeX forward search.
- Allow background drawing in PDF view to prevent sluggishness on 10.12.
- Dirty slightly larger areas to compensate for rounding errors on 10.12.
Version 1.4.22
New Features
- New action to offset notes in skimnotes tool.
Bugs Fixed
- Use page background color only when supported.
- Reinstate drawing of page highlights on 10.12.
- Fix image smoothing on some later OS versions.
- Workarounds for showing locations in various situations on 10.12.
- Fix grouping search results by page.
- Fix note conversion on 10.12.
- Fix link preview on 10.12.
- More leniency with synctex when using a source file without tex extension.
- Improve scrolling and navigating in single page mode.
Version 1.4.21
Bugs Fixed
- Fix Open Selected PDF service broken by the system.
- Improve full screen animation on 10.11.
- Extend freehand and line note drawing workarounds for still buggy 10.12.
- Workaround for find bug on 10.12.
- Workaround for PDF search bug on 10.12.
Version 1.4.20
Bugs Fixed
- Bring back workarounds for drawing bugs in freehand and line notes.
- Improve security of updater.
Version 1.4.19
New Features
- Some extensions to template format.
- Support for Marquee Zoom feature, select while holding Command and Option.
- Hidden preference to read notes from a .skim sidecar file when notes were found in attributes.
Bugs Fixed
- Reduce waste in export of notes as RTFD.
- Avoid a crash when drawing collapsed line notes.
- Make sure notes are saved when auto-saving on newer systems.
- Pass selection to "with data" argument of "make" command to create new markup notes in AppleScript.
- Remove drawing overrides for freehand and one notes as Apple should have fixed this bug.
- Fix some small leaks.
Version 1.4.18
New Features
- AppleScript command to edit a note.
- Remember scroll offset in document setup.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix redraw outside visible area.
- Fix PDF accessibility.
- Remove newlines from outline labels so they're fully displayed.
Version 1.4.17
Bugs Fixed
- Workaround for note drawing bug in El Capitan.
Version 1.4.16
Bugs Fixed
- Bring back Auto button in reload sheet.
- Fix possible freeze at reload.
- Fix bug with magnify tool when mouse exits view.
- Make sure freehand drawing is displayed in presentation mode.
Version 1.4.15
Bugs Fixed
- Workaround for bug in searching strings in some PDFs.
- Workaround for 10.11 bug when copying PDF.
- Search for dvi conversion command in new TeX location on 10.11.
- Fix size of toolbar controls.
- Allow updater to work on 10.11.
Version 1.4.14
New Features
- Some hidden preferences to customize full screen mode.
Bugs Fixed
- Don't try to fix accessibility on 10.10.
- Make sure main menu and dock are hidden in presentation mode.
- Fix magnify tool on 10.10.
- Fix freehand note drawing on 10.10.
- Fix snapshot selection drawing on 10.10.
- Fix cursor in presentation mode.
- Fix AppleScript support for selections.
Version 1.4.13
New Features
- Hold down shift key while changing note color to also change the default.
- Use native full screen support when available.
Bugs Fixed
- Really work around Page Up/Page Down bug.
- Fix a bug in changing recent document info.
- Workaround for Yosemite bug locking the document file.
- Move PDF size controls out of scrollers so overlay scrollers are supported.
- Don't dirty document when rotating or cropping pages.
- Use template toolbar images consistent with style on Lion and later.
- Reinsert workaround for up/down navigation bug Apple refuses to fix.
Version 1.4.12
Bugs Fixed
- Fix auto hide for some scrollers.
- Fix a toolbar image.
- Fix showing of toolbar customization palette.
- Don't reopen last open files when opening a file.
- Reinsert workaround for Page Up/Page Down bug Apple refuses to fix.
Version 1.4.11
New Features
- Add notes for selected search results through contextual menu.
- Placeholder for output file in PDF-TeX sync command.
- Toolbar button images on Yosemite consistent with new style.
Bugs Fixed
- Reopen last open documents also when restoring Skim at login.
- Correct notes ordering, notes creation and reading bar on PDFs with rotated pages.
- Improve determination of mouse cursor.
- Resolution independent drawing of artwork for retina displays.
- Don't use source list style tables on Yosemite for inconsistencies with new style.
- Improve performance for documents with a lot of notes.
- Fix presentation page transitions.
- Fix key view loop in anchored note windows.
Version 1.4.10
New Features
- Try to order notes right to left with such languages.
- New toolbar buttons for Book Mode and Page Breaks.
- Add PDF-TeX sync preset for Atom.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix links to Wiki.
- Fix Favorite Colors toolbar item on Yosemite.
- Fix history highlights on Yosemite.
- Workaround for wrong order of page navigation by scrolling in Yosemite.
- Fix bug in undo for bookmarks deletion.
- Fix script menu icon in dark mode.
- Improve file update checking, can now detect file replacements.
- Avoid a hang in the Preferences on Yosemite.
Version 1.4.9
New Features
- New action to test for Skim notes in included skimnotes tool.
Bugs Fixed
- Avoid constantly redrawing PDF while editing text notes.
- Fix PDF-TeX sync for TextWrangler preset.
- Fix version check for 10.10.
Version 1.4.8
New Features
- New PDF-TeX preset for Sublime Text 3.
Bugs Fixed
- Improve automatic text detection for notes on Mavericks.
- Fix Rotate Right toolbar item.
- Avoid crasher after note editing due to infinite looping accessibility.
- Always select Skim note when it is on top of a link.
Version 1.4.7
Bugs Fixed
- Fix vertical direction for scroll tool.
- Workaround for initial PDF display bug on Mavericks.
- Fix hang in note tool modes.
- Workaround for system writing bug on Mavericks.
- Code-sign all components.
- Draw new line notes from start point to end point.
- Improve automatic text detection for notes.
Version 1.4.6
New Features
- Hidden preference for using initial settings from PDF, default is off.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix saving failures on Mavericks.
- Fix note editing and display issues on Mavericks.
Version 1.4.5
New Features
- Quick Look support for bookmarks, downloads, and anchored notes.
- Respect initial display mode from the PDF.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix scaling to physical size on retina displays.
- Fix some drawing issues for Mavericks.
- Fix positioning issues from some contextual menu items.
Version 1.4.4
Bugs Fixed
- Fix Help.
- Fix selection indication for markup notes.
- Fix reopening last open files when a file is lost.
- Improve accessibility access for notes.
- Fix AppleScript saving of PDF with embedded notes.
- Fix reading notes from external file.
Version 1.4.3
New Features
- Allow editing text note properties while editing text.
- Hold down Shift on Favorite Colors for sticky change of default color.
- Smoothen freehand notes.
- Better default placement of new notes around selection.
Bugs Fixed
- Improve minitaturizing snapshot windows.
- Fix TeX-PDF sync for file name containing non-ASCII characters.
- Coalesce tablet pen events while drawing freehand.
- Fix maximum scale factor in some controls.
- Correct placement of notes after note conversion when saving for some PDFs.
Version 1.4.2
Bugs Fixed
- Fix saving of notes as RTF from notes document.
- Avoid Mountain Lion bug when converting PostScript.
- Remember export save option.
- Improve efficiency of freehand note drawing.
Version 1.4.1
Bugs Fixed
- Fix selector name leading to serious exception.
Version 1.4
NOTE: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is no longer supported as of 1.4
New Features
- New hidden preference to disable automatic search after opening from Spotlight.
- Add PDF-TeX sync preset for Sublime Text 2.
- Use save options for export without notes or with embedded notes.
- Delete notes using tablet erase tool.
Bugs Fixed
- No mouse event coalescing during drawing of freehand notes.
Version 1.3.22
New Features
- Add Simplified Chinese localization (Thanks LiFeng Zhang).
Bugs Fixed
- Fix centering of sync point.
Version 1.3.21
New Features
- Scripting support for some presentation options.
- Make grouped search result sortable.
- Allow setting text note alignment in preferences.
Bugs Fixed
- Reset tool tips for notes.
Version 1.3.20
New Features
- Allow customizing columns for notes table.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix type select cancel event.
- Fix scripting of modification date and document info.
- Make sure search results are ordered according to page position.
- Fix displayline script for SyncTeX support for Lion.
- Avoid loss of file location that can happen due to bug in Lion.
- Fix note redrawing for large line widths.
- Allow editing multiple page transition at once.
Version 1.3.19
New Features
- Extend freehand notes when having CapsLock pressed.
- Improve resizing.
- Restore Previous Session item in Bookmarks menu.
- Use Command-Arrow to collapse or expand all table of contents items.
Bugs Fixed
- Update SyncTeX to latest version 1.16, various bug fixes.
- Fix OpenMeta tags support.
- Allow phrases using double-quotes when searching with Whole Words Only.
- Change some zoom action shortcuts consistent with Preview and to avoid conflicts.
- Improvements to find field.
- Fix display update after changes to media box.
- Remember height of split PDF after closing.
Version 1.3.18
New Features
- Hold Option key to show content of a session bookmark.
- Remember search options between documents.
- Allow setting the folder to save downloads in.
Bugs Fixed
- Make sure zoom popups in snapshots are shown in Lion.
- Prevent certain save, convert, and copy operations when printing is not allowed.
- Avoid a Lion system bug in the updater.
Version 1.3.17
New Features
- Remove find bar using escape.
- Command-click on split PDF to go to a point in the main view.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix AppleScript support for selections on Lion.
- Improve printing support on Lion.
- Clear selection on mouse down in Move, Magnify, and Select tool mode.
- Rotate the page below the mouse when using gestures.
- Initially display snapshots after they're fully set up.
- Make sure search field in notes document is always shown when initiating a search.
- Disable Lion's built-in window restoration feature.
Version 1.3.16
Bugs Fixed
- Fix full screen support on Lion.
- Fix preview tool tips.
- Improve displayline script for .dvi and .xdv files.
Version 1.3.15
New Features
- Support for "open location" script command.
- Support some URL open parameters, if we receive them.
- Replace the find bpanel by a scope bar in the window.
- Support Outlook email client.
- Hold Option in actual size toolbar button for physical size.
- AppleScript support for downloads.
Bugs Fixed
- Allow numeric pad keys for type select.
- Update Get Info window when information changes.
- Fix position of synctex indication.
- Fixes to German localization.
- Improvements to preferences: layout, animation, and next/previous actions.
Version 1.3.14
New Features
- New hidden default for image smoothing.
- Support select script command.
- Allow AppleScript select command to animate the selection.
- Improved search highlighting, use arrows to move through selected results.
Bugs Fixed
- Don't scale down pages when printed by default.
- Remove Move to Trash menu item as it is incompatible with text editing.
- Scale font passed to accessibility.
Version 1.3.13
NOTE: This is version 1.3.13 (64) and fixes a bug in version 1.3.13 (63).
New Features
- New action to move a file to trash.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix creating bookmarks in AppleScript.
- Fix crasher after trying to reopen deleted files.
- Run AppleScripts from menu in separate process, to avoid timeouts.
- Default to scale down printed pages.
- Fix a sheet conflict when converting notes.
- Fix a crasher on searching PDF.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix automatic file updating.
- Fix check in action to add new note.
- Fix duplicate bookmarks manager.
- Fix clicking remote links.
Version 1.3.11
New Features
- Hold down Option to open all bookmarks in a bookmark folder at once.
- Codesigning for enhanced security and portability of saved PDF passwords.
- Added Japanese localization (thanks Toru Ishizaki).
- New background option for displayline script.
- New service to show Skim notes.
Bugs Fixed
- Fixes and improvements for scripting selections.
- Complete support for webarchive templates.
- Warn before opening a folder containing a large number of documents.
- Make sure we don't crash when reading corrupted bookmarks.
- Don't show duplicate error alert when opening a file was already cancelled.
- Improved scripting support for bookmarks, in particular creating session and folder bookmarks.
- Fix saving of default full screen PDF settings.
- Fix clicking links hidden behind notes.
- Improvements to freehand notes tool, give preference to drawing, only select on simple click.
- Replacement of remote control support, it is now turned on by default again.
- Improve printing from AppleScript.
- Apply initial PDF view settings and snapshots after unlocking a locked document.
- Always open PDFs from links using Skim.
- Improvements to PDF passwords saved in keychain.
- Disable actions that won't work for locked documents.
- Fix Clear button enabling in Downloads window.
- Allow setting owner password when it's different from the user password.
Version 1.3.10
New Features
- Support for .webarchive export templates.
Bugs Fixed
- Make sure page popup is updated in snapshot zooming.
- Update synctex parser to latest version, with some fixes.
- Make sure the favorite colors toolbar item is properly updated when colors are added or removed.
- Fix resetting PDF display settings after presentation.
- Update help on display modes.
- Fix used mail program.
- Fix for interpreting selections in AppleScript.
- Avoid calling a method not defined on Leopard.
Version 1.3.9
New Features
- New scripting command to read in notes from a separate notes file.
- Scripting support for bookmarks.
- Embed new skimpdf command line tool to mnipulate PDFs with attached notes.
- Make font size in generic note text window sticky and global.
- Support for text alignment in text notes.
- Support for fill color in line-end artifacts of line notes.
Bugs Fixed
- Fully hide split PDF view when removing it while it's closed.
- Keep position in split PDF when re-showing it.
- Support email through Mailplane, Postbox, and PostboxExpress.
- Don't change line style when creating notes.
- Make sure the current page is retained after toggling full screen.
- Make it impossible to create empty documents in AppleScript.
- Fix UI for "Open files" preferences.
- Avoid random page switches in zooming and switching fullscreen modes.
- Workaround for a leak in created notes.
- Support paste of files on bookmarks window.
- Support color drops on the notes table.
- Fix alphabetic page lables.
- Improvements to bookmark scripting.
- Improved cleanup of closed snapshots.
- Fix possible crash due to editor not being cleaned up.
- Fix Spanish localization of line inspector.
- Fix keywords in Info panel.
Version 1.3.8
Bugs Fixed
- Fix fullscreen window placement on secondary screens.
- More improvements to fullscreen suport.
- Reenable font menu shortcuts.
Version 1.3.7
New Features
- Added Polish localization (thanks Adam Strzelecki!).
- New hidden preference to disable all animations.
- Improvements to bookmark management, allow dropping files, allow changing page, support .skim, and autosave columns.
- Try to keep table of contents expansion states on a reload.
- New scriptable properties for default note fonts.
- Initialize empty contents of converted markup notes from text.
- Restrict full screen mode to single space.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix page count in info window.
- Fix some names of presentation page transitions.
- Help on modifying line attributes.
- Avoid an exception on Leopard when a document closes.
- Disable Apple Remote support by default, as Apple has disabled support and it leaks.
- Update notes table when note color changes.
- Fix FDF export on Leopard.
Version 1.3.6
New Features
- Optional Script menu, see the Wiki for details.
Bugs Fixed
Fix preference for automatic update checking.
Fix preference control for PDF-TeX synchronization preset.
Don't show PDF previews in presentation mode.
Fix an exception on saving.
Make secondary PDF views key on mouse down.
Fix hiding Skim in full screen mode.
Fix info window on Leopard.
Search TeX editor in application bundle first.
Version 1.3.5
New Features
- Custom cursors for note tool modes are now only used based on a hidden preference.
- Extended Font submenu now in the Edit menu.
- Support for extended DVI (XDV) format.
Bugs Fixed
- Don't hide full screen window when deactivating Skim.
- Fix creating notes with properties from AppleScript.
- Fix a potential leak.
- Fix icon sizes in add bookmark sheet.
- Use improved contextual menu support in tables.
- Avoid using up too much memory when adding a lot of notes.
- Allow resizing new notes from note tools in all directions.
- Don't add extra separators in windows menu.
Version 1.3.4
New Features
- Indicate note tool mode in cursor.
- Support for modification date of notes, and creator name through hidden default.
- New hidden preference for page background color.
- Make Skim notes documents accessible for AppleScript.
Bugs Fixed
- Avoid "empty" search field after an animation.
- Fix updating preview tool tips after changing pages.
- Allow multiple full screen documents without overlapping side panels.
- Fix some leaks.
- Don't allow dropping colors inside favorite colors widget.
- Faster loading of PDFs with lots of separate page labels.
- Avoid some random crashers due to calls to closed windows.
- Remove search criteria and quotes from spotlight search term before using it.
- Use helvetica italic for quicklook preview of .skim files.
Version 1.3.3
New Features
- Use standard status bar and divider styles and animate dividers.
- Hitting Enter in tables simulates double-click, hitting Space scrolls.
- Allow exporting PDFs that were encrypted with embedded notes, at least when PDFkit lets us.
- New hidden preference to allow windows above presentation level.
Bugs Fixed
- Show colors in table for .skim documents.
- Try to display the full page when scrolling to a find result.
- Make sure the window title is synchronized when leaving full screen or presentation mode.
- Re-enable conversion of PDF annotations to Skim notes.
- Make searching a bit more efficient.
- Safer save when user permission is needed.
- Add newline in RTFD export template.
- Fix page bubble in preview tooltips.
Version 1.3.2
Bugs Fixed
- Fix offset of color swatches in notes table.
- Fix mixup of cursor images.
- Update colors for history highlighting when key state changes.
- Fix adding favorite colors by option-drop.
- Reenable tool-tip preview on links and anchored notes.
- Fix initial opening of table of contents pane.
- Coerce initial scripting properties passed in with "make" command.
- Workaround for memory problems with full screen fade out on some hardware.
- Some fixes to AppleScript support.
- Allow saving notes to locked and read-only files when permission is granted.
- Fix PDFSync support.
Version 1.3.1
Bugs Fixed
- Fix a crasher when opening encrypted PDFs on Leopard.
Version 1.3
NOTE: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) is no longer supported as of 1.3
New Features
- 64-bit support on Snow Leopard, unfortunately Leopards 64-bit binaries are too buggy.
- Always reopen the last open files after an automated update.
- Allow clicking links below the reading bar.
- Multi-line text view for editing generic note text.
- All new high resolution icons. Thanks Kim Does!
- Add sortable color column to note table.
Bugs Fixed
- Better method to prevent sleep during presentations.
- Make sure the main PDF view gets focus on mouse down, and use it as the default target for some Edit commands.
- Avoid using empty selections, which could lead to various problems on 10.6.
- More accurate calculation for the alternate menu actions Zoom to Width and Zoom to Height.
- Rotate markup notes on rotated pages, so they will probably align with the lines.
- Make use of Core Animation for several fading transitions.
- Prevent empty item in presentation transition style popup.
- Workaround for a 10.6 bug that scrolled to the first page after a display mode change.
- Prevent empty item in presentation transition style popup.
- Workaround for a 10.6 bug that scrolled to the first page after a display mode change.
- Prevent black edges around pages in presentation page transitions.
Version 1.2.7
New Features
- Set the text color of a text note from the favorite colors when holding the Option key.
Bugs Fixed
- Enable new note menu items.
- Smooth images when anti-aliasing.
- Fix initialization of saved line style of notes.
- Workaround for 10.6 scrolling back to the first page after a display mode change.
Version 1.2.6
Bugs Fixed
- Fix toolbar images for 10.6.
- Fix AppleScript support for selections and highlights on 10.6.
- Fix a bug that sometimes created huge notes on 10.6.
- Avoid a hang due to tooltips of notes starting with spaces.
Version 1.2.5
New Features
- Select a square when holding the Shift key.
- New option to TeX-PDF sync AppleScript "go to" command and displayline script to show the reading bar instead of selecting.
- Enable PDF-TeX sync in the Snapshots and Split-PDF.
- Easier setting of text note font color, using Option-drag and a check box in the Colors panel.
- The presentation transition options are now saved.
- You can now choose separate page transitions for Presentation mode.
- Hidden preference to hide full screen side panels extended to allow for disabling auto-hide completely.
- Hidden preference to disable pinch-zoom.
- New script command to get a text representation using templates.
- Add PDF-TeX sync preset for new Aquamacs.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix localized document type names.
- Don't select in Presentation mode when using TeX-PDF sync.
- Make sure tool tip rects are reset when the page changes.
- Fix markups on Snow Leopard.
- Reject the "revert" script command suring auto-reloading, these features should never be used together.
- Safer editing registration to avoid possible crashers.
- Remove PDF With Embedded Notes export option for encrypted PDFs.
Version 1.2.4
New Features
- The Split PDF feature is now also available in Full Screen mode.
- You can now open folders containing files Skim recognizes.
- New hidden preference to hide full screen side panels when they are closed.
- Enable tablet scribbling in presentation mode.
- Extend freehand notes by holding down Shift.
Bugs Fixed
- Always enable zoom slider in full screen navigation controls.
- Continuously auto-scroll during certain drags.
- Fix reopening documents from a session bookmark.
- Fix reading of setup bookmarks.
- Workaround for Tiger crasher due to uncommitted editors.
- Don't let PDFKit animate page transitions when Skim already does.
- Always activate open or minimized windows when clicking the dock icon.
- Use correct rotation for placeholder thumbnail.
- Avoid hang due to thumbnail drawing.
Version 1.2.3
New Features
- You can now save PostScript and DVI with attached Skim notes.
- Change hidden default for the full screen and presentation navigation behavior, allow disabling it.
- Add a zoom slider in the full screen navigation controls.
Bugs Fixed
- Workaround for Leopard's buggy identification of file types.
- Fix selection behavior of toolbar buttons on Tiger.
- Fix activation of line wells in notes preferences.
- Increase minimum size of page column in snapshots table.
Version 1.2.2
New Features
- Update Sparkle updating framework and use signed updates.
- Use source list style colors on Leopard.
- Reduce effective width for hit testing of line and freehand notes.
- Book mode is now the default in two-page layout.
- You can now drag pages and snapshots from the tables.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix some leaks.
- Workaround for Apple bugs in AppleScript support for selection specifiers.
- Fix AppleScript grab command.
- Fix link to Wiki in Help menu.
- Draw focus ring on some custom controls.
- Don't show notes in spotlight comments.
- Make sure the window icon in the snapshot table is shown initially.
- Make sure navigation toolbar buttons are validated after a reload.
- Application and window switching disabled in Presentation mode.
- Fix text color of highlighted cells on Tiger.
Version 1.2.1
New Features
- Add preset for synchronization with TeXMaker and AlphaX.
- New AppleScript command to convert PDF annotations to Skim notes.
- Handle PDF files in Skim's Spotlight importer, so Skim notes can be searched.
- Add alternate contextual menu in notes table to edit text in a separate window.
- Black screen feature in Presentation mode, use the 'b' key.
- Improved AppleScript support for rich text
- The width of the reading bar is now sticky.
- Set fill color from Favorite Colors toolbar item when holding the Option key.
- Add Traditional Chinese localization (thanks Jim Chiu!).
- Some initial support for Open Meta tags. Readable by ApppleScript and saved with Save As and Export as PDF.
Bugs Fixed
- Rotate pages in the correct direction using gestures.
- Use larger margins around selectable text.
- Show find panel on the current space.
- Ignore mouse moved events for PDF-TeX synchronization.
- Fix Quick Look generator for Freehand notes.
- Prevent clipped small toolbar buttons on Tiger.
- Fix Help on PDF-TeX synchronization.
- Respect page rotation in copied TIFF images.
- Better conversions of PDF annotations to Skim notes.
- Prefer using SyncTeX over PDFSync.
- Improvements to template support.
- Fix resizing and tracking rect of full screen side panels.
- Make freehand note tool mode accessible through shortcuts.
- Make sure full screen windows fill the screen after illegal moves in Spaces.
- Fix row height in thumbnail and snapshot tables.
- Display more context around a selected find result.
- Full screen windows are now shown on all Spaces to avoid inconsistencies.
- Fix automatic cropping of a single page.
- Make sure the window is redrawn after a reload.
- Improved thread safety for dvi conversion.
Version 1.2
New Features
- New freehand note type, only supported through tool mode.
- Allow choosing an associated document with presentation notes to be navigated simultaneous with the presentation. Requires a 1-to-1 correspondence of pages.
- Improvements to notes document. Support searching, printing, and multiple selections.
- Support Word 2007 Format (docx) templates (Leopard only).
- Add file name as comment to keychain items.
- Allow opening some PDF files with a wrong extension.
- Allow changing the default text color for text notes (Leopard only).
- Use capsule style toolbar buttons on Tiger.
- Add optional "-r" argument to displayline script to revert the document.
- Add option to match the scale in the split PDF with the main PDF: select "=" in the scale popup.
- Support for trackpad gestures in snapshot and split PDF features.
- New AppleScript command to grab part of a page as an PDF or TIFF image.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix open script command on Tiger.
- Fix PDF-TeX backward search for the Aquamacs Emacs preset.
- Fix saving of anchored notes from a notes document.
- Avoid a hang after the first double-click in tables.
- Avoid an excaption that could occur when closing a document with an active search.
- Smoother fade out of full screen windows.
- Use consistent set of icons for various note types.
- Fix for an exception in the Info window.
- Remember the current page after page rotation.
- Clean "alien" characters from selection strings.
- Fix PDFSync and SyncTeX support for file names containing spaces and periods.
- Fix sorting exception in notes document.
- Fix a crasher when removing a bookmark while editing it.
- Make sure old Skim notes are removed from extended attributes when saving.
- Make sure the main window becomes key after closing a note or snapshot window.
- Fix a crasher that could occur when closing a document with open snapshots.
- Allow more complex recursive specifiers for scripting selections, as well as selections in the whole document.
- Change preference keys for text note font, you may need to set it.
- Only set fullscreen key window when the main or side window was key.
- Allow saving passwords for files without an ID in the Keychain.
Version 1.1.13
New Features
- Allow editing the text of generic non-anchored notes using a little window.
- New bookmark to save the current session.
- New bookmark for a file including full setup. Hold down Shift and Option to see the menu item.
- New hidden preferecen to disable preview tool tips in tables.
- Replace the Italian localization (Thanks Mauro Mazzieri!).
- Renamed hidden default to use sequential instead of logical page numbering.
- Expand some table of contents items initially.
Bugs Fixed
- Improvement to finding the editor script for a preset synchronization, fixes sync for BBEdit.
- Remove incomplete Italian localization.
- Avoid empty window titles for note windows.
- Avoid keeping the system from going to sleep.
- Fix a bug that could cause a hang when using the note table.
- Fix some leaks.
- Fix page numbers in thumbnail table in Spanish localization.
- Updated SyncTeX support, containing fixes for ConTeXt.
- Ignore some more errors due to unsupported extended attributes when reading notes failed.
- Make sure any edit in the note table is committed before saving.
- Explicitly resolve symlinks in file names used by PDFSync and SyncTeX, as Apple fails us.
- Improved accessibility overrides, hopefully fixes a crasher.
Version 1.1.12
Bugs Fixed
Version 1.1.11
New Features
- New hidden default to disable animated search highlights.
Bugs Fixed
- Don't reopen last open file when reactivating Skim.
- Fix DVI conversion.
- Fix SyncTeX support.
- Compare tex files for TeX-PDF synchronization case insensitively.
- Consistently use one-based line numbers for TeX-PDF synchronization.
- Fix convert action in included skimnotes tool.
- Properly update row height when changing table font iun the preferences.
- Avoid a bug that prevented the jump-scroll system preference to be respected.
- Allow opening an alias to an associated PDF from a Skim notes document window.
- Fix the UTI used for RTF. Fixes a bug that may prevent exporting.
Version 1.1.10
Bugs Fixed
- Use correct separator in extended attribute names.
Version 1.1.9
New Features
- Remember last used export types for Skim note files.
- New hidden preference to autosave a document.
- Add support for SyncTeX. Thanks Jerome Laurens for providing the SyncTeX parser.
- New hidden preference to use logical page numbering.
- Improvements to skimnotes tool.
Bugs Fixed
- Prevent calling Leopard-only methods. This fixes a bug that prevented Export and Save As on Tiger.
- Make sure the last chosen export type is remembered only for Export.
- Workaround for a system leak when loading appcasts for update checking.
- Fix exported FDF.
- Fix various leaks.
- Try other dvi conversion tools when the default one is not found.
Version 1.1.8
New Features
- You can now copy information about search results from the tables.
Bugs Fixed
- Initializes line notes with default properties.
- Bring back children for anchored note text in note table.
- Ignore errors when reading notes due to unsupported extended attributes.
- Properly save line information in markup notes.
- Properly initalize rich text of existing anchored notes, fixes AppleScript support.
- Properly release the file when the document closes.
Version 1.1.7
Bugs Fixed
- Fix writing large data for Skim notes to extended attributes.
Version 1.1.6
Bugs Fixed
- Fix reading PDF bundles.
- Fix saving notes to PDF files.
- Fix drawing highlights on Tiger.
- Fix going to a page from a bookmarks or using type select.
Version 1.1.5
New Features
- Presentation page transitions now set an optional angle depending on the direction. Some transitions on the Wiki have been updated.
- New hidden defaults for the default note text. See the Wiki for details.
- Add accessibility for the status bar.
- Add support for the system dictionary popup.
- You can now change the text color for text notes.
- Change default DVI conversion tool to dvipdfmx.
- You can now define new custom export types for various text formats using templates. See the Wiki for details.
- New menu item to paste text without style.
- The selection from the Selection Tool is now accessible from AppleScript.
- You can now click the location in the status bar of the note window to display the note in the main window.
- New pdfsync editor preset for AquaX.
- Use animated search highlight on Leopard.
- Update skimnotes tool.
- New hidden preference to match the zoom of the split PDF to the main PDF.
Bugs Fixed
- Disable preview tool tip when Skim is not active.
- Connect markup for text with missing spaces.
- Update preview tool tips more often, in particular after scrolling.
- Change version number syntax, so Apple more reliably chooses the correct one.
- More reliable auto-reload of DVI files.
- Fix for making fullscreen window key after showing a side panel.
- Make sure we don't use a non-existent font, avoids possible exceptions.
- The selection (for copying) using the Select tool is now added to the page on which the selection was actually made.
- Fix an exception when adding a highlight while a snapshot is open.
- Fix opening associated PDF from Spotlight.
- Fix UTI declarations.
- Ignore duplicate file update notifications. On Leopard kqueue apparently sends more than one write notifications.
- Make sure the reading bar is shown when turning the feature on.
- Combine text when extending markup.
- Use the system download folder when downloading files.
- Use the system paper size for printing by default. Only change the orientation, if necessary.
- Remove extraneous check marks in popup for update preference.
- Make sure no notes can be added without a page.
- Fix typos in help.
- Fix backgrounmd color for keywords in info window on Leopard.
- Find complete words only when the Whole Words Only option is checked.
- Workaround for drawing artifacts in toolbar images on Tiger.
Version 1.1.4
New Features
- Go to selected note from table using Enter key.
- Many improvements to accessibility. Add accessibility information to toolbar buttons, and to notes and links in the PDF.
- Use Control-Option-arrow to resize notes to avoid conflict with Spaces.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix crasher on Tiger due to font preference control.
- Fix undo of text for anchored note.
- Open PDF with wrong extension as PDF instead of PostScript.
- Fix AppleScript save command with file type passed on Leopard.
- Fix keyboard selection of active note or link.
- Fix crasher when setting empty text in anchored note.
Version 1.1.3
New Features
- Allow copying text for multiple notes from the note tables.
- Remember snapshot window locations when rebuilding snapshots on reload and reopening a file.
- Allow opening PDFs with any unrecognized file extension.
- Much more efficient undo implementation.
- Add Czech localization (thanks Czech X Team!).
- New hidden preference to disable automatic update of the contents of circle and box notes.
- Support links to locations in other PDF files.
- Apple Remote now scrolls faster.
- New toolbar buttons for display mode.
- Allow selecting text inside a highlight.
- You can now add new favorite colors using option-drag, and remove them by dragging to the trash.
- You can now set the fill color of circles and boxes using drag and drop by holding down the Option key.
- Use system font panel to choose default fonts, allows choosing font with traits.
Bugs Fixed
- Allow removing selection from a search in certain tool modes.
- Avoid warning when saving PDF bundle on Leopard.
- Fix a crasher when cropping pages.
- Properly include start/end point for line notes in FDF export.
- Revert selected image copying behavior on Tiger, to avoid a PDFKit bug.
- Don't use arrow buttons without modifiers to navigate pages, as this is used to move notes.
- Fix French translation error.
- Enable pinch-zoom for multi-touch trackpads.
- Never clear text contents of a circle or box note when it does not enclose any text.
- Trim whitespace and newlines from text in tool tips.
- Fix adding notes in AppleScript.
- Use correct action for menu form of Print toolbar item.
- FDF export now should always work, but may drop non-ASCII characters.
Version 1.1.2
New Features
- Use dark toolbar images on Tiger.
- Allow printing without dialog from AppleScript.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix opening DVI files.
- Allow opening linked PDFs from notes document.
- Fix printing on Tiger.
- Improve toolbar validation.
- Fix conversion of PDF annotations to Skim notes.
Version 1.1.1
Bugs Fixed
- Fix printing problems.
- Reinsert missing toolbar icons.
Version 1.1
New Features
- Navigate through pages using left/right arrow buttons when there is no horizontal scroll bar.
- Add alternate menu item to navigate synchronously in all open documents (use Control).
- More consistent and Leopard compatible toolbar buttons.
- Print panel improvements. Allow setting auto-rotate in print panel, and on Leopard allow setting page auto-scaling and show a preview.
- Using Command-arrow in the note table now selects and scrolls to the selected note or highlight.
- Reading bar now centers vertically when moved through keyboard shortcuts.
- Copied images are now fully cropped, including their media box.
- Allow changing the media box through AppleScript.
- More descriptive menu titles for alternate Auto Crop menu items.
- Full screen navigation buttons are now activated at the bottom of the screen by default. Can be changed with a hidden preference.
- Add search options in a contextual menu of the PDF search field.
Bugs Fixed
- Remove Spotlight search criteria from initial search string.
- Use more reliable method to determine whether to use metric units.
- Don't round off scaling of snapshots.
- Fix Copy contextual menu in notes table.
- Make sure a font exists before using it.
- Fix resizing of cancel button in update progress panel.
- Remove duplicate tool tips from notes and links.
- Make sure the document is not mrked dirty after undoing e.g. page rotation.
- Fix height of toolbar buttons on Leopard.
- Workaround for a Leopard PDFKit leading to exceptions in snapshots.
- Fix removal of preview tool tip in some situations.
- Fix preview tool tip refreshing on Leopard.
- Draw nothing in line preview for zero line width.
Version 1.0.3
New Features
- Add hidden defaults for modifiers of reading bar navigation and resizing shortcuts.
Bugs Fixed
- Revert shortcuts for reading bar navigation and resizing shortcuts to Option-arrow and Shift-Option-arrow.
- Rename some AppleScript properties of default line styles to avoid conflicts.
- Avoid tracking rects during load. Fixes a bug that prevented loading of some PDFs.
- Don't bounce the application icon in the dock when showing the progress bar, e.g. during reload.
- Don't auto-rotate printed pages. This can be changed in Page Setup after choosing Skim from the Settings popup button.
Version 1.0.2
New Features
- Use page label when present in default export template rather than page index + 1.
- Hidden default to remove reload alert. Use at your own risk.
Bugs Fixed
- Finally avoid a Leopard bug that often led to blank windows.
- Improvements to Fit To PDF.
- Printing from snapshots now prints the document.
- Fix minimum size of French update window.
Version 1.0.1
New Features
- Setting to auto-rotate printed pages in the Page Setup sheet now sticks for new documents and between sessions.
Bugs Fixed
- Make sure relative links are completed. Fix an Apple crasher for relative links.
- Fix file extension for initial choice of exported file type in Leopard.
- Fix crashing bugs Spanish localization.
Version 1.0
New Features
- Automatically select the proper paper size in the print info.
- Add support for Keyspan Frontrow remote control.
- Change the shortcuts for moving and resizing of the reading bar to avoid conflicts with Spaces on Leopard.
- New keys for note type icons to be used in RTFD export templates.
- Add Russian localization. (Thanks Michael Krekin!)
- Add QuickLook plugin for PDF bundles and Skim notes files.
- Add support for counters in export template.
- Show page number in window title.
Bugs Fixed
- Really prevent selection in Leopard for context menu.
- Fix remote control support.
- Fix empty thumbnails that could sometimes occur.
- Fix transition popup in French localization.
- More efficient gradient drawing.
- Faster save of disk image on Leopard.
- Fix line widths that could sometimes be wrong.
- Smoother first transition in presentation mode.
- Fix a possible crasher in DVI converter.
- Fix segmented buttons on Leopard, shift images and use consistent style.
- Smoother animation of button when swapping find tables.
- Fix an exception that prevented toolbar customization on Leopard.
- Reduce some unnecessary memory usage.
- Always synchronize full screen zoom button.
Version 1.0RC2
New Features
- Allow grouping search result by page.
- Allow multiple selection in note table.
- Add script to SharedSupport in Skim bundle to create a disk image, used by Save Disk Image.
- Allow moving the navigation buttons in full screen modes.
- More note preference settings are now available from AppleScript.
- Add german localization (thanks Jonas Zimmermann!)
- Add menu items to go to a marked page.
- New alternate menu action to zoom fit to height or width, make Physical Size an alternate item. Press the Option key to see an alternate item.
- Implement zoom actions for snapshots.
Bugs Fixed
- Use font size from defaults in bookmarks table.
- Toggle utility panels instead of only showing them.
- Don't set the size fo new anchored notes from the current selection.
- Remove auto-saved .skim notes backup when there are no notes.
- Prevent running Skim on pre-Tiger systems.
- Only warn when saving notes in extended attributes fails and a .skim backup is automatically saved.
- Fix a crasher when reading a PDF.
- Try to ignore hyphenation for default text of a note from a selection.
- Order windows in the Windows menu alphabetically.
- Fix a leak.
- Fix text export template.
- Workaround for a bug in the page history on Tiger.
Version 1.0RC1
New Features
- Add an alternative page toolbar item with buttons to go to the first or last page.
- Rotate preview tool tip for rotated pages.
- Hidden default to automatically reload files changed on disk without notes. Use at your own risk.
- Allow to directly add a new bookmark to a folder.
- Split the overcrowded View menu into two separate menus.
- Allow automatic reloading of DVI files changed on disk.
- Use "string" key instead of "contents" to allow saving the full text of embedded anchored notes on Leopard. This may affect custom templates.
- Add preference for the font size used in text tables.
- New utility window to add new notes.
- New alternate composited zoom toolbar items.
- New action to convert PDF annotations added in other PDF editors to Skim note. Intended for use on Leopard.
- You can now resize notes in all directions using improved anchor points.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix button autoresizing in French update window.
- Update status bar after reloading.
- Fix remaining reading bar when moving it at top or bottom of page.
- More efficient template parsing.
- Fix removal of empty space around template tags.
- Correctly remove empty space around template tags in template parsing.
- Add a remark in the preferences on how to set the default view settings.
- Fix saving of bookmarks, they could be corrupted when the file was deleted.
- Rename the label of a toolbar item.
- Fix a leak.
- Fix scripting support for default view settings.
- Fix saving of recently viewed pages and snapshots.
- Fix autoresizing row heights in note table.
- Leopard fixes for magnify and highlight note tools, text note editing, reversed gradients, and dirtying landscape PDFs.
- Fix reverting DVI files.
- Avoid an infinite loop when converting DVI.
- Fix zoom buttons in snapshot and split PDF view scroller on Leopard.
- Don't use the size of the selection for ne anchored notes.
- Use bash shell in pdfsync forward search script, as sh does not work on Leopard.
Version 0.9.3
New Features
- Support for smaller comparison condition in templates.
- Hide preview tool tip after a few seconds.
- Make reading bar resizable, drag the bottom of the bar or use Control-Option-arrow keys.
- Allow condition tags comparing two properties in text templates.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix French and Italian localization of bookmarks window.
- Respect stickyness of closed contents pane, unless table of contents should always be shown.
- Don't search for an empty string, as this leads to a crash.
- Avoid locking the PDF file.
- Fix a check to enable presentation page transitions.
- Allow non-ASCII characters in the paths passed to pdfsync forward search scripts.
- Fix layout problems of the PDF when resizing the window.
- Use subdirectory of temporary directory for for DVI conversion.
Version 0.9.2
New Features
- Make reading notes from .skim or .fdf files undoable.
- Allow saving passwords for protected files in the keychain.
- Organize bookmarks with folders and separators.
- Add RTFD export templates and make snapshots and pages and their thumbnails accessible in templates.
- You can now show a PDF snapshot in a split below the main PDF.
- Drawer die-hards can now set a hidden default to let Skim use drawers instead of panes.
- Add Spanish translation (thanks Alejandro Camara Iglesis).
Bugs Fixed
- Don't use transparent background color text note editing, as the black background shines through.
- Show progress sheet when reverting a document, so you access the document and crash during reload.
- The contents pane is now always opened, unless the file has no TOC and you have chosen so in the preferences.
- Remove the table of contents before reloading a document to avoid a crash.
- Don't animate page state changes in a presentation.
Version 0.9.1
New Features
- Allow copying and auto-resizing rows in note documents.
- Allow viewing FDF files in Skim.
- Add a status bar to document window for notes.
- Update French localization.
- Remember window location and size for notes documents.
Bugs Fixed
- Really save FDF data in bundle.
- Fix a crasher in the skim notes window.
- Try to reconstruct split of short contents and larger text in anchored notes from FDF files.
- Allow opening PDF bundles saved with older version of Skim.
- Fix exported FDF for items without a border.
Version 0.9
New Features
- Use blue background for some tables.
- Name files inside a bundle the same as the bundle.
- Add contextual menu items to note window to auto-size a single row or all rows.
- Support for import and export of FDF files, allowing interchange of notes with Adobe.
- New hidden default for the size of the preview tool-tip.
- Keep the color of a text note while editing.
Bugs Fixed
- Always use the current selection for snapshots when available.
- Show full size of the content of a PDF bundle in info window.
- Fix a crasher when loading a password protected file.
- Update page labels and page clumn widths when unlocking a file.
- Report failing type-select in the status bar.
- Allow non-ASCII characters, such as accents, in type-select.
- Make sure the message in the search results table changes at the end of a search.
- Fix delete using delete key in note table.
Version 0.8
New Features
- Hold down Shift key while moving the end points of a line to restrict the angle of a line to multiples of 45 degrees.
- You can now save the PDF and notes together in a bundle. This format is safe for email and version control.
- Notes in PDF bundles can be searched through Spotlight.
- The skimnotes command line tool can now use the standard input or standard output.
- The skimnotes command line tool now won't write empty notes.
- New preferences for default fontto use for anchored notes.
- New hidden default to keep notes on top by defaul.
- You can now double-click in the table of search results or the table of contents to force going back to the link.
- New "Select None" menu item in the Edit menu.
- Added tool-tips in the note table.
- Added a link to the Wiki in the Help menu.
- New hidden default to add the Skim creator code to files it saves. Setting this can cause PDFs saved by Skim to be opened by Skim.
- New hidden defaults for the default size of new notes.
Bugs Fixed
- Add white outline to magnify cursors so they are visible on a dark background.
- Adjust the size of page columns so they use as little space as possible.
- Periodically save current documents, so the last open files can be opened after a crash.
- Fix editing of lines.
- Show the snapshot cursor only when pressing the mouse.
- Unarchive notes as text in skimnotes command line tool.
- Fix a crasher with search highlighting when reloading the document.
- Update French localization.
- Scale page thumbnails proportionally to avoid a PDFKit bug.
- Fix of a leak in the note window. This should also improve stickyness of the note window position and size.
- Change the creator code for Skim, as the one we used was already registered.
- The toolbar items to add notes now can be clicked using the spacebar when selected.
Version 0.7
New Features
- You can now resize all rows of the notes table to view the full text.
- PDFSync from the editor now shows an indication of the target location.
- The tool tip of the table of contents and the table of search results now shows a preview of the target location.
- New toolbar item to add new note and highlights.
- Added contextual menus for tables.
- New menu item to save a disk image with the saved file. Useful for protecting and sending files with a large number of notes.
- Choosing Auto for the zoom of a snapshot auto-resizes the currently shown area rather than the full page.
- PDF view can now provide selected PDF for services.
- Skim can now download PDFs from remote URLs, which can be provided on the clipboard, dropped on the Skim icon, or through Services.
- Added a service to open selected PDF in Skim.
- Added a new item in the page setup sheet to automatically rotate pages for printing. Choose Skim from the Settings popup.
- You can now drag the image from an anchored notes window.
- Added type-select to quickly move to a page or an item in a table.
- You can now preview the image linked to an anchored note.
- Added some copy and delete actions as well as contextual menus to various tables.
- Some interface improvements.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix spell checking freeze for single page PDFs.
- Selecting text is now completely disabled in presentation mode.
- Changed shortcuts of Search PDF and Presentation to be consistent with other application.
- Improvements to the Find panel. We now synchronize with the global find pasteboard.
- Fix searching for application support folder on computer or network domain.
- Fix automatic determination of landscape printing for rotated documents.
- Reset thumbnails, table of contents, page labels and snapshots after unlocking an encrypted document.
- Allow copying text from copy protected documents.
- Disable printing and export with embedded notes of print protected files, as it doesn't do anything anyway.
- Disable full screen modes when the document is unlocked, as it has side effects.
- Fix dragging end points of lines on rotated pages.
- Fix copying PDF selection from rotated pages.
- Hopefully fix some problems with the placement of fullscreen windows.
- Fix window title for single page documents.
- Fix rounding problems when joining highlights.
- Implement Home and End keys in tables.
- Fix a possible crasher when reloading a file.
- Fix placement of full screen windows on secondary screens.
- Open all snapshots fom a previous run.
Version 0.6.1
Bugs Fixed
- Fix updater.
- Make sure side panes are opened at the saved widths.
- Fix a typo in the scripting dictionary.
Version 0.6
New Features
- Default print settings automatically choose landscape for wide pages.
- Hidden preference for custom dvi conversion utilities to read DVI (e.g. dvips).
- You can now spell-check a PDF.
- Animated page transitions for your presentations. A large set of default transitions is provided.
- You can now quickly go to a page in presentation mode using the Show Contents Pane action.
- You can now search notes displayed in the table.
- New View menu item to show the file at the real size at which it would be printed.
- Added a Speech menu to Edit menu.
- Added keyboard shortcuts 'p' and 'a' to toggle pages and auto-resize in presentation mode.
- Added French localization. (Thanks Corentin Cras-Méneur!)
Bugs Fixed
- Correct display of zero line width in Line inspector panel.
- Fix broken Note preferences in Italian localization.
- Improved security for PDFSync, escape special shell characters.
- Most tool modes now don't show the hand cursor, as you cannot drag.
- Notes and highlights are not printed anymore when they are hidden.
- Shortcuts to quickly change tool modes is changed to Option-Command-arrow, to avoid conflicts with moving notes (was Shift-arrow).
- Disable invalid menu actions in presentation mode.
- You can now also exit full screen mode by pressing action when a side panel is opened. Also some other actions are enabled in that case.
- You can now open PDF and PS files even if they happen to have the wrong extension.
- Fix layout issues in main window.
- Reopen snapshots after a reload at the correct zoom factor.
- Notes sorted by contents ignores case and uses numeric compare.
- Ignore empty Spotlight search text.
Version 0.5.1
New Features
- Added some more sorting keys for use in text export templates.
- Reorganized document info window, with some new properties.
- You can now navigate through a presentation using mouse clicks.
- New toolbar items to open color, font, and line panels.
- Added an optional status bar, displaying the page number, number and pages, as well as informatino about the tool mode, if it applies.
- You can now print documents from AppleScript.
- Pdfsync from AppleScript now goes separately through the go command instead of the open command.
- You can now quickly rotate through tool modes using Shift-modified arrow keys.
Bugs Fixed
- Prevent chaching of update info for updater.
- Fix the default text export templates.
- Allow other active application windows in front of Skim in presentation mode.
- Show the keywords in the document info window.
- Fix notification of file changes on disk.
- Fix a crasher that occured when reverting a document containing notes.
- Prevent setting negative sizes from AppleScript.
- Skim can now find text export templates also in the local or network domain.
- Move Skim windows to the background when switching to another application in full screen or presentation mode.
- Hitting tab while editing a text note now end the edit. This fixes text noite editing in PDFs with fillable forms.
- Make sure the document's print settings are used for printing.
- Fix full screen window layout when the full screen window moves to another screen.
Version 0.5
New Features
- You can now hide all notes and highlights.
- Remember last exported type.
- Keyboard shortcut for Export.
- Use menu button on Remote Control to switch between scrolling and navigation/zoom.
- You can now change the sort order of the note table.
- You can now display only certain types of notes and highlights in the note table.
- AppleScript support for revert of a document.
- Allow dragging of the reading bar from the region outside a page in any tool mode.
- Greatly enhance file update checking. Use kqueue notifications instead of a timer and check for complete PDF files.
- Smart auto-cropping of all pages separately, but keeping the same size, for unevenly scanned papers. Accessible through Control-Command-K.
- Improvements to magnify tool.
- Hidden defaults for magnification tool sizes.
- New hidden default for the maximum document page history length (SKMaximumDocumentPageHistoryCount).
- Extensions to AppleScript support. Support for selections, additional note properties; new revert, find, and join commands; allow creation of markups; many new properties for documents, pages, and notes.
- You can now change the icon type of anchored notes from the note's window to some standard proofreader marks.
- Hidden default for icon type of anchored notes (SKAnchoredNoteIconType).
- Skim now saves the file type and creator code.
- The reading bar is now shown on the thumbnails.
- Add border/line properties to circle, box, text and line notes. Accessible through a new inspector panel and AppleScript.
- Allow setting the interior (fill) color for circles and boxes. Select the check button at the bottom of the color panel.
- Add a TeX editor perset for LyX.
- You can now reopen snapshots from a previous run.
- New preferences for line styles and interior colors.
- You can now change the colors and line styles of notes using drag and drop.
- Hidden default for the timeout of Apple remote switch indication.
- You can now open DVI files with Skim. These are first converted to PostScript using the dvipdfmx tool, which must be installed as part of a ghostscript installation.
- New color swatch toolbar control to easily use a few default colors.
Bugs Fixed
- Use old-style check for network availability for the updater, as the newer API is not reliable for dial-up connections.
- Never add a new note on a click in note tool mode, because undoing such an addition can also remove a text edit in progress.
- Update the window title when the document is reloaded; the number of pages can change.
- Avoid possible crash due to tool-tip when reloading a document.
- Fix Apple bug for AppleScript support for saving with arbitrary file types.
- Fix AppleScript support for note color property.
- Add help about cropping pages.
- Start and end points for arrow notes in AppleScript are now relative to the page, and changing them automatically changes the bounds.
- The side panels in full screen mode are now hidden when you switch to another application.
- Renamed "Arrow" to "Line", as it now allows more general line styles. Also change some keyboard shortcuts.
- Enable Password menu item for encrypted files that are flagged as unlocked, as the latter is unreliable in PDFKit.
- Fix tab-loop for PDFs with fiallable forms. Also add some help about fillable forms.
- Fix issues with updating the color panel.
- Fix saving of window frames for shared windows.
- Scroll reading bar to visible when it is moved.
- Default text templates now sort the notes according to the page.
- Fix a bug that prevented adding notes in note tool mode on some places on the page.
- Snapshots are now reopened after reverting a document.
- The page chooser toolbar item now uses the page label (logical page) rather than in index.
- Increase maximal width of page column in note table.
- Links are now active in move tool mode.
- The rotation of text notes is now saved.
Version 0.4.1
NOTE: The updater built into Skim 0.3 and 0.4 has a bug in the installation procedure. Please download Skim 0.4.1 from the website http://skim-app.sourceforge.net.
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed installation of new versions by updater.
Version 0.4
New Features
- Add a menu item in the Help menu to visit the web site.
- Add single-character shortcuts to change the note style in note mode (t, n, c, b, h, u, s, a).
- Fix PDFSync support to work with file names containing spaces.
- Add hidden default for activation of navigation buttons in presentation mode (SKActivatePresentationNavigationAtBottom).
- Start search using the find panel at the current page when there is no selection.
- Wrap selection using the find panel.
- Add support for apple remote control. It can be disabled through the hidden default SKEnableAppleRemote.
- Hidden defaults for line ending style of arrows (SKArrowNoteStartLineStyle, SKArrowNoteEndLineStyle).
- Hidden pref option for reading missing notes from separate .skim file (SKReadMissingNotesFromSkimFileOption).
- You can now open the corresponding PDF from a Skim Notes document.
- Skim can now read TIFF images from the clipboard.
- New select tool. Allows you to copy PDF and TIFF images from a section of a page.
- You can now search Skim note files from Spotlight.
- New Crop menu items and toolbar button.
- Cropping and page rotation are now undoable.
- Allow reverting a document when it has changed on disk.
- New menu item to set the selection from the content of the page.
- Hidden defaults for automatic crop box margins (SKAutoCropBoxMarginWidth, SKAutoCropBoxMarginHeight).
- New Zoom To Selection menu item and toolbar button.
- New preference option to open files fit to the PDF.
- You can now join markup highlights using shift-click, or by selecting a highlight before adding a new one.
- You can now supply templates for text export of notes. See the wiki for more information.
Bugs Fixed
- Fix links in help.
- Don't create a new note in note tool mode on mousedown outside a page.
- Don't add new resizable notes in note tool mode when just clicking.
- You can now access links that are "hidden" by transparent highlights and arrows.
- Scroll reading bar to visible when it is shown.
- Scroll to previous position on page when reloading PDF.
- Escape spaces in TeX editor command.
- Thumbnails now use the current display box.
- Retry automatic reloading of files changed on disk a few times.
Version 0.3
New Features
- Add shortcuts for bigger/smaller font sizes.
- Command-click a snapshot.
- We now print notes and highlights.
- Add copy/cut/paste items to the contextual menu, when they apply.
- You can now make a snapshot of a page by Command-clicking a thumbnail.
- Added Dutch localization.
- We now do not leave Full Screen when switching to another application.
- Export notes as RTF.
- Add preference options for default note/highlight colors and text note font.
- Add menu item to save the current PDF display settings to be used for new documents.
- Search results from the Find Panel are now also highlighted with a red oval.
- Select search field when opening the Contents pane in full screen mode.
- You can now reset all preferences or all preferences in a pane.
- Added Italian localization. (Thanks Andrea Bergia!)
- Screensaver and sleep are now disabled in Presentation mode.
- Skim can now return to the last page viewed in a document.
- Link tool tips now show the top of the text when the link refers to the (empty) top of a page.
- Skim can now also view separate Skim notes (.skim) files.
- Using Sparkle for automatic updating. (Thanks Andy Matuschak!)
- Display the number of pages in the title bar.
- Skim can now automatically backup a skim notes file whenever it saves a PDF file.
- You can now resize the current note using the arrow keys, when you hold down the Control key.
- Notes are now ordered according to page and location in page.
- Several improvements of Skim's custom tool-tips.
- Add a menu item to select the search field.
- You can now add arrows to a PDF document.
- You can now add notes from external .skim files rather than just overwriting them.
- PDFSync support. See the Wiki for more information.
- You can now set transparent colors from the color panel.
- You can now set separate PDF view settings for full screen mode.
- Add a Look Up in Dictionary item to the contextual menu.
- You can now undo edits of notes and highlights.
- Add a hidden preference (SKActivateFullScreenNavigationAtBottom) to show the navigation buttons in full screen mode only when moving the mouse at the bottom of the screen.
- Add hidden preferences for the line widths of circles and boxes (SKCircleNoteLineWidth and SKSquareNoteLineWidth).
- New tool modes for ading notes or highlights.
Bugs Fixed
- We now don't edit new text notes, so they can be moved, resized or deleted.
- We now make sure new notes are added to a visible page.
- Disable the TOC menu item when there is no TOC.
- Return to the location that was viewed when reloading a document.
- Search text in a PDf file asynchronously, so it does not block Skim.
- Fix crashes that can appear for links with missing URLs.
- Add separators in the Notes menu for categories.
- Fix a crasher when reverting a PDF-document.
- Fix typos in the Help and update for new features.
- Fix a crasher when reverting the document. Unfortunately this disabled tool tips.
- Open the contents pane to display the search term when opening from Spotlight.
- Save notes when auto-saving and exporting as PDF.
- Remember the width of notes pane.
- Fix leaks leading to excessive memory use.
- Fix back-tabbing through notes and links.
- Zooming using the scroll-wheel now only affects the current window.
- Lazy updating of page thumbnails to avoid slowdown when opening a file.
Version 0.2
Initial release.