Skim

    • Free • Open Source
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    What is Skim?

    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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    Craigo
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    • Top positive comment  over 5 years ago • 0 replies
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    Skim is an excellent PDF reader & annotator. From Skim's entry, here on alternativeto, it looked as if it hadn't been updated in years. Visiting the logs show that the project is alive and well. Good thing!

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    jendk3r
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    • Top positive comment  almost 2 years ago • 0 replies
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    Perfect for reading scientific papers in PDF

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    brucelgrubb
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    • Review • 12 days ago • 0 replies
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    Something has changed in the way this displays certain PDFs. Old PDFs that displayed properly under old versions have large sections of text missing (the same parts missing when viewed through Preview) that display properly via Foxit PDF Reader or Adobe's PDF reader.

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    mmfoodforthought
    Comment • about 1 month ago • 0 replies
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    Regularly updated.
    Very easy to use.
    Excellent for reading PDFs and making notes.

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    AttkBeast
    Comment • over 10 years ago • 0 replies
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    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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    Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Skim, and it has gotten 84 likes

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    Skim was added to AlternativeTo by genba on Apr 14, 2009 and this page was last updated Dec 22, 2020.

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      brucelgrubb reviewed Skim
      Something has changed in the way this displays certain PDFs. Old PDFs that displayed properly under old versions have large sections of text missing (the same parts missing when viewed through Preview) that display properly via Foxit PDF Reader or Adobe's PDF reader.
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      12 days ago
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      mmfoodforthought commented on Skim
      Regularly updated. Very easy to use. Excellent for reading PDFs and making notes.
      about 1 month ago
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