I thought others might need to know this (well, they probably already do!). Anyway, an e-mail exchange between António and me was thus:

Eric: I now understand that Cmd-Ctrl-T brings up a static text box, whereas by the drop down menu, I can add dynamic boxes. However, is there a shortcut for dynamic ones?

António: There is no built-in shortcut, but you can create custom shortcuts to any app’s menu items in the system preferences.  (Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts)

My question: I’ve never done this for any app, but it looks nice. I was wishing PDFclerk Pro had more keyboard shortcuts, but now I can create my own. However, when I go to System Preferences>Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts>Application Shortcuts, I have entered in “PDFclerk Pro” as the app I’m doing this shortcut for, and I have put in “Add Circle (Dynamic)” in the menu title. But I think that’s not right. Should it be “Tools>Dynamic Annotations>Add Shape>Circle” or is that just a label? If just a label, how does the app know what to do when I press Ctrl-Cmd-C (my custom shortcut)?

I realize I’m supposed to log out of my Mac user (or shut down and restart the computer) for these changes to take effect, but I am not clear as to what precisely I’m to type into the “Menu title” field. I have searched the web to no avail.

You do not need to log out, you only need to restart PDFClerk, if it was running when you added the shortcut. You should only enter “Circle” in the menu title for the new shortcut to be correctly assigned.

Beautiful! It works!

Is there a list of keyboard shortcuts that are already in PDFclerk Pro? I couldn’t find a list in Help.

I did
Shift-Ctrl-C (Circle, dynamic)
Shift-Cmd-B (Square, dynamic; I used “B"ox rather than “S"quare, since Shift-Cmd-S is already taken by Strikethrough)
Shift-Cmd-O (Add Oval)
Shift-Cmd-R (Add Rectangle)

I might do more, but I don’t want to erase functionality elsewhere, and it seems that OS 10.6 doesn’t show me where I’m about to “steal” a shortcut from when I’m making new shortcuts.

There’s no compiled list of shortcuts. There is a utility though that lists all shortcuts in an application, called KeyCue. You might find that useful.

Great! Thanks, I appreciate the idea. That would indeed work.