Re: [Skim-app-users] Skim Freehand and Inkwell (via a graphics tablet)

[Adam M. G. <a.m...@ma...>]

On Jan 1, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Richard Stahlhut wrote:

<snip lots>

>
> 2.  Highlighting is, at this point, no (or little) better with the
> graphics tablet than with a mouse.  But it could be.  What is needed
> is a way to switch highlighting ON and then start underlining whatever
> you want (as you do with a highlighter on paper), rather than the old
> Select-then-apply-format method, which is way too slow.  MS Word
> offers this option.  I don't know how they implement it.
>
> I've always wondered, by the way, what the Skim home page means when
> it says Skim offers:  "Highlighting important text, including one-
> swipe highlight modes".   One-swipe mode *sounds like* what I'm asking
> for.  But I sure don't know how to turn it on.


This works for me: use the contextual "tools" menu to select  
"Highlight". Then, everything I select (move the mouse over with the  
button held down) is highlighted when I stop selecting (release the  
button).

-Adam


> ------------------

Adam M. Goldstein PhD, MSLIS
--
ago...@io...
a.m...@ma...
http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein
--
(914) 637-2717
--
Dept of Philosophy
Iona College
715 North Avenue
New Rochelle NY 10801