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I only wished there were a cocoa graphical interface for this...

Do you know about MacMercurial?
http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/macmerc.html

Huh? This thing doesn't work at all for me (OS 10.4.9). I get a blank page no matter what chm file I open...

This also fails for me using 10.4.9 - just getting a blank page.

I created some replace icons, so it looks much nicer now: :)

Warning: This application breaks with the Safari 3 Beta.

The djvu format is mainly used for scanned documents. It takes less place and is more readable that the same document scanned in tiff or pdf.

This application is totally awesome! Reading and annotating pdfs on screen is something I do extremely often and I'm infinitely grateful to the authors of this little gem. Another great feature is that it's presentation mode is much better than Preview's one (no obnoxious floating window, working "end" and "home" buttons). Great work!

This app instantly replaced Preview as my PDF reader of choice.

One of the best app´s discovered in time, no more Preview for pdf´s here!! thanks to the authors, keep it on!!

Sensational "must-have" appl.
It will not actually alter your .pdf file but wait until you see how it works !

Hmmm. I haven't stopped using it, mac2. What system are you running? What Mac? etc. ?

I love this app....but is there any way how I can use it with two column PDFs? Most scientific papers have several colums per page and if I want to highlight something around the line break it highlights the whole line across all columns....

This application is just so perfect for what I've always wanted to be able to do with PDF eTexts, comment on them as I read. Brillant.

tigerhawk: To highlight text in a column, use the square select tool. You can draw a box around the text you want and it will copy it to the notes field.

I often export these notes to a RTF file as a summary of key points.

This application is brilliant. It has totally replaced Preview as my PDF viewer.

Only problem I have encounter is complications with the software update function.

fantastic application, I couldn't use anything else for PDF's

Skim is much better than preview for viewing scientific PDFs. However, the program lacks proper support for selecting text in columns. Also, the highlight and underline tools need to be improved because often annotated text is hard to distinguish. The same goes for notes, whose appearance could be improved to resemble actual sticky notes. Adobe Acrobat does a better job of annotation but is a slower, bloated piece of software.

All of those complaining about the column issue, complain to apple, it is a bug in PDFKit and is, therefore, in every app that uses it (Skim, Preview, etc).

This is why it is not there in Acrobat, as it uses its own PDF rendering engine.

Actually, PDFKit does have the ability to highlight column wise, though technically its via the box shape. In skim (or preview), press 'alt' then click and drag to highlight text in a column. Spread the word!