Hello everyone,
I am new to macOS devices, I bought Macbook pro M1, and when I installed Skim pdf, for pdf viewing, the app fails to work because Apple cannot check for malware; even after following their steps to overcome this problem, Skim still doesn't work.
Besides asking this, I would also like to know how to set it up directly in Vim editor, as the default viewer.
Skim is a PDF reader based on the same Apple PDFKit framework as Apple's built-in Preview application. If you right-click on the Skim application and choose just Open, a verification progress bar will appear, and you may be told it is a third-party application and to Open it. Click Open.
However, with some applications, this does not work and it will tell you it cannot open it. Don't cancel, but do visit System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General panel. You should see in the Allow apps downloaded from section, that Skim appears there, and you can click open anyway. Once you have done that, the application will work as expected, or should.
Vim is a text editor and has nothing to do with viewing PDF. I suggest that you launch vim, and then do the following:
:help gx
That will provide the documentation that you need allowing you to configure your .vimrc/.gvimrc so you can hover your cursor over a PDF file name in a text document and open that PDF externally in either Skim, Preview, or Adobe Acrobat Reader. This can be used for other file types whose names may appear in a textual context.
no, it doesn't open
Thanks so much for your help, I uninstall skim to try again to do everything.
just another question, because I don't know if I do the correct thing: which of this should I install?
I did it all over again and I get the same things that came to you, but in the end, when I click on Open, nothing comes out, as if I did nothing, the tabs close and nothing happens.
i tried to open a pdf on skim and it seems to work, only is that, when i try to open the skim app, it doesn't open any window, any ideas?
Actually Skim has a preference setting…
thanks for the help, just one thing, Preview when I click it, it gives me this card as a result
I almost never use it, so do not visit its preferences panel. Having Preview and Acrobat Reader DC is sufficient for me.
thanks for the help, just one thing, Preview when I click it, it gives me this card as a result
Me too. Preview is actually enough for me. I only have Acrobat Reader installed for questions.
ok gentlemen,
It was a pleasure, thanks for your patience and help ... and for the speed with which you responded. A hug (from a distance)😎
antonello160 wrote:
ok gentlemen,
Who came in??? 😎
You're welcome.
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