Edit PDF in OS X with Skim

Don’t get me wrong, I think Preview is the best PDF viewer I have ever used. I typically forgo installing Adobe Acrobat even, since I find it loads slow and has too many features for me. But that being said, Preview is clean and simple to use, possibly a little too simple.

One feature Preview has always lacked is editing a PDF. For instance, one of my fellow grad students asked me to revise a paper. I asked for a PDF since DOC files do not always cooperate with OS X, formatting issues often arise. When I got it, I thought to myself, well how am I going to edit it now?

That’s where the free Application called Skim comes in. Skim has several features Preview just forgot about. One of them is an elegant Editing interface that allows me to mark up papers, including highlights, and notes. Some other nice features Skim has is support for the Apple remote, full screen reading, export notes to text, applescript support, the list goes on…

Download Skim from the official site to start editing PDFs.