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I have a very wide PDF and I would like to find a PDF viewer which would allow me to split the screen vertically so I can keep the left side the same while scrolling the right side back and forth.
I found the application http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/, but it only allows one to split the screen horizontally.
Is anyone aware of such a PDF viewer on the Mac?
PDF files are popular precisely because the formatting is fixed. A PDF author can be sure that their document looks the same on any device that displays it. So I'm afraid you're asking for a feature that goes against one of the basic premises of the format.
That said, some PDFs have a text-only layer that can be displayed directly. On an iPhone, I'd recommend Goodreader for this. It will display the formatted PDF, then you can click to display the text-only version. That version may be bigger and more legible for you.
Having a text layer depends on the author of the PDF, but I would think Goodreader may be a step in the right direction for you.
In 10.8 and later (but not in 10.7) there is a preference for the default view mode:
I don't know any way to change the default size or position of windows, but you can use an application like Slate, ShiftIt, or Moom to assign a keyboard shortcut for resizing a window to fill the right half of a screen.
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A quick look suggests that this feature does not exist in any PDF reader.
One responder on this forum [ http://is.gd/i0R12 ] believes that there are no such readers.
Most of the links in this Google search [ http://is.gd/i0QQy ] are requesting such a feature be implemented in some reader, any reader.