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Skim 0.6

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    Skim 1.7.6

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    Mac OS X

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Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Skim 0.6.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of Skim for Mac or reading our review, simply click here.


All old versions distributed on our website are completely virus-free and available for download at no cost.


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What's new in this version:

New Features
- Default print settings automatically choose landscape for wide pages.
- Hidden preference for custom dvi conversion utilitiesto read DVU (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, or by pressing "t".
- 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.

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