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April 6, 2007

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Skim your PDFs

Posted Apr. 6, ’07, 6:33 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Software

Skim In the beginning, there was Adobe Acrobat Reader (now known as Adobe Reader). Then Apple bestowed Preview upon us. Then I discovered PDFView. Each was good for reading PDFs (which originally was just for a couple things at school, but now I use it to keep a lot of records).

However, none was great. Skim might just be great. Not only does it retain Preview’s speed and responsiveness, but it also offers a few features not found in other free PDF viewers.

You can take snapshots to retain a part of the document of the screen while you browse the rest. You can look at the targets of links in the documents without visiting them. You can show documents in presentation and full screen mode (great for professors and perpetual grad students). You can even add notes and write stuff right onto the document, perfect for the students in the audience.

Despite its 0.2 version, it’s become my new default for PDFs.


1 Comments

Ned said:

Just checked out Skim on your recommendation. It looks good, but I would also consider Yep for PDF file management, classification and brief note taking.
http://www.yepthat.com/
It is the easiest way I have found for keeping track of pdf documents, associated notes and features a great thumbnail view of your documents.

April 7, 2007 5:34 AM

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