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A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim version 1.7.11

New Features
  *  Allow clicking local links in presentation again.

Bugs Fixed
  *  Make sure document window does not move on top after presentation.
  *  Consistent and improved full screen animations.
  *  Fix some issues when opening setup bookmarks for already open documents.
  *  Open new document maximized by using the Zoom function.
  *  Don't reset form values when converting notes.
  *  More efficient undo of adding notes from convert or reading from file.
  *  Fix Help on reading bar shortcuts.

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim version 1.7.10

New Features
  *  Change shortcuts for page navigation.
  *  Change hidden shortcuts to move the reading bar.
  *  Allow reopening last open files at any or only default launch.

Bugs Fixed
  *  Fix typo in simplified Chinese localization.
  *  Generate preview tool tip asynchronously to avoid freeze.
  *  Always generate snapshot thumbnails asynchronously.
  *  Draw pages in presentation asynchronously to avoid freeze.

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim version 1.7.9

New Features
  *  Contextual menu for status bar to expose some display options.
  *  New hidden preference for the placement of the toolbar relative to the title.
  *  New hidden preference prevent links from changing the scale factor.
  *  Separate toolbar to add and edit notes.
  *  New toolbar button to toggle the note toolbar.

Bugs Fixed
  *  Fix a memory leak in synctex support.
  *  Fix some localizations.
  *  Avoid blocking when running convert notes script command.
  *  Update help on changing default PDF settings.
  *  Fix Show/Hide menu titles.
  *  Fix markup notes for separated text ranges on Sequoia.
  *  Try to preserve and join texts when joining markup notes.

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim version 1.7.8

New Features
  *  Open internal links in split PDF when holding Shift key.
  *  Allow changing maximum scale factor for preview tooltips through hidden preference.

Bugs Fixed
  *  Prevent failure of open location script command.
  *  Only copy note using Option key when dragging.
  *  Fix saving of bookmark separators.
  *  Maximum scale factor for preview tooltips of 2.
  *  Prevent setting color of highlight to black to avoid problems.

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim version 1.7.7

New Features
  *  List recently closed documents in the Bookmarks menu.
  *  Allow printing without opening a document, e.g. from AppleScript.
  *  Add new services to print a file directly.

Bugs Fixed
  *  Fix folder bookmark items when holding the option key.
  *  Fixes to Chinese localization.
  *  Allow writing PDF data for print-protected documents on newer systems.
  *  Offset link destinations in preview.
  *  Avoid unneeded redraws when notes change.

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim 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.

For those interested in the SkimNotes framework or tools, I'd like to say that there is a new version 1.6.2 released. It can be downloaded from the Skim web page.

Christiaan

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim 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.

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim 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.

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim 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.

For those interested in the SkimNotes framework or tools, I'd like to say that there is a new version 1.6.1 released. It can be downloaded from the Skim web page.

Christiaan

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim 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.

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim 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.

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim 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.

For those interested in the SkimNotes framework or tools, I'd like to say that there is a new version 1.6 released. It can be downloaded from the Skim web page.

Christiaan

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim 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.

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

This version fixes an annoying bug in this morning’s release, so you are encouraged to update to this release when you downloaded that version.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim version 1.6.20

Bugs Fixed
  *  Fix removing notes.

Release notes for Skim 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.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim 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.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim 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.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim 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.

For those interested in the SkimNotes framework or tools, I'd like to say that there is a new version 1.5.6 released. It can be downloaded from the Skim web page.

Christiaan

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim 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.

A correction to the previous message, with the correct release notes. A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim 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.

A new version of Skim is available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or using the built-in updater.

Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.

For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.

Release notes for Skim version 1.6.15

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.

For those interested in the SkimNotes framework or tools, I'd like to say that there is a new version 1.5.5 released. This version also allows building the frameworks for iOS. It can be downloaded from the Skim web page.

Christiaan