Re: [Skim-app-users] Too durned small: text notes, circles, and boxes in scanned PDFs

[Carl L. <bil...@ya...>]

Regarding the small text notes issue, I just wanted to mention to everyone that 
the workaround is to (1) right-click the text note > Note Font... to change the 
size of the font for a particular text note or (2) go to Preferences... > Note 
fonts > Text to change the size for all future text notes---you would have to 
revert back to Default or previous settings when you annotate a "normal vector 
image" PDF.

Christiaan: It's my experience that the "relative" size of the text note does 
actually change (the size is probably always the same number of pixels by 
default, but indeed for the raster PDFs it "looks" smaller) probably depending 
on the resolution of the PDF you have---someone back me up on this if you use 
Skim to annotate scanned PDFs.  If there was a way to click toggle between 2-3 
different "presets" in the "Notes" tab in the preferences, that would be nice to 
have.

-Bill



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From: Christiaan Hofman <cmh...@gm...>
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Sent: Thu, February 17, 2011 12:16:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Skim-app-users] Too durned small: text notes, circles, and boxes 
in scanned PDFs



On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:41, Carl Lee wrote:

Dear Christaan and all,
>
>
>I digitally scan in my notes pretty frequently (200 dpi, 8.5" by 11", black and 
>white, exported as PDF) and like to annotate them using Skim.
>
>
>Problem is, when I want to add a text note (ie. sticky), circle, or box to such 
>a PDF they are all quite small (less than a quarter the size of one added in a 
>"standard" vectorized PDF, such as any typical journal article)---in order for 
>me to read my annotations, I usually have to zoom-in like Sherlock.
>
>
>Can we somehow manually scale the size of such "notes" for a given document if 
>desired?  Or if Skim can somehow adjust the sizes according to the dpi of the 
>document if its an image (without messing with original behavior for vectorized 
>PDFs)?
>
>
>Btw, I couldn't figure out how to search text within the sourceforge forum for 
>Skim to see if this question was already answered---please educate if there is a 
>way.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>-Bill


No,this is not possible. Note that you can change the default font size in the 
preferences. I also don't see how the size of the note depends on what PDF you 
have, as it doesn't.

Christiaan