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Yep, Skim is very nice and well-done by the guys from Bibdesk. We have decided from the start to wait with highlighting until Leopard comes out since the underlying PDFKit framework is much more mature and implementing highlighting will be much easier. In the mean time we also plan to make it much easier to work with Papers in combination with an external PDF viewer like Skim. Stay tuned!

That's exactly what we plan to add.

cbecker wrote:

Great tip, thanks! Once you exported the PDFs, are you still able to delete or modify the comments? Thanks!

After adding highlighting to my pdf using Skim, and then exporting as 'pdf with embedded notes', I can read the pdf in Papers with the notes, but I don't seem to able anymore to remove the notes if I want to (opening the pdf again in Skim). How can I change this? Is it possible to remove the highlighting or notes, for instance if you want to print or send the pdf to a colleague, wtihout him having to read your notes?

Thanks,
Jan Willem

mek wrote:

That's exactly what we plan to add.

This would be perfect. Once again I come to the site with an idea to suggest and the Papers.app hive mind has already posted it. I love how active and engaged the forum is and I hope it continues. I've read so many great ideas here!

Last edited by dbtodd (2007-08-15 20:19:47)

Hooray, it's there now in Papers 1.5. Go to the preferences and under the PDF tab you can set Skim (or any other PDF viewer) as your default. Double-clicking or hitting the Read PDF button will then open the PDF in your favourite viewer. Also note that Papers automatically refreshes the PDF view so your new annotations are immediately visible. Enjoy!

Sorry, Papers tab, last popup button...

what am i doing wrong?

in papers, i selected, "open with... Skim"

then highlighted and added a note.

then exported and overwrote the original file that papers made.

now i CANT see the changes in papers??

thanks for the help!

I just downloaded skim and noticed that they make the frameworks available.  Does that make it possible for greater integration with Papers?  It would be pretty sweat to be able to view anchored notes from within papers.  Editing the pdf in skim makes sence, but some of the functionality is lost if we can't read some of the notes in Papers.

Old thread, but to answer the question...

As far as I can tell, Skim's annotations are not PDF annotations. They are in some ways more flexible, but they are not visible to Preview or Papers. So if you use Skim, you basically see un-marked papers in Papers, and marked in Skim. (And in Skim you can make annotations visible/invisible as well.)

This may be the workflow you want.

I've been using Preview to highlight things, and those PDF annotations definitely show up in Papers. But I can see no convenient way to hide them or delete them all in Preview. (Skim actually lets you export PDFs with their annotations, without their annotations, or with their annotations "baked in" as PDF, which is very nice.)

This thread got me thinking again about Skim, which I'd neglected since Preview added several of its features, and it may actually be a more flexible workflow. It'd be nice if Papers supported Skim annotations as well as PDF (Preview) annotations, though.