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Skim

Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X.

Free Open Source
Mac

Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.

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Office & Productivity

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Skim was added by genba in Apr 2009 and the latest update was made in Nov 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2018 There is a history of all activites on Skim in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Skim or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Comment by AttkBeast

about Skim · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

I really like Skim. My ebooks look great on it. It has opened all the .pdf's I've thrown at it. There's plenty of viewable options and is very clean. The only problem is there is not a windows version. I have and iMac that I use this software on but cannot use it on my laptop PC's.

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