Hi Olle,
Thanks for your feedback! We receive this criticism often and we are indeed not happy with the situation on OSX. However we cannot recommend Skim, because Skim uses a proprietary library for rendering PDF. Maybe you can write to the Skim-Developers and ask them to further develop a free rendering backend like popplerkit and switch to that.
We will discuss in the team whether it is prudent to recommend the readers if they are not easily installable to current Mac Desktops.
If you have further questions, don't hesitate to write to us again!
Best Regards, Hannes Hauswedell
On Monday 18 October 2010 05:19:30 Olle Lundberg wrote:
Hi,
It is sad to see you recommend a PDF reader that hasn't been upgraded since 2005. It makes me wonder if you have even tried it since "The recommendations are based on ease of use and install and do not reflect the technical merits of the software itself." The available downloads are compiled for PowerPC architecture, which requires a translation layer called Rosetta. In the latest carnation of Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) this layer is not installed by default, which requires a massive download before you can run your new PDF reader. An unexistant recomendation is better than an uninformed one. A much better option would be to recommend skim [1] which was last updated in September and is provided for both architectures.
-- Olle Lundberg
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