Re: [Skim-app-users] Exporting to PDF bundle from command line

[Mahn-Soo C. <mah...@gm...>]

You mean, data.plist and data.txt?
Fortunately (or unfortunately) I don't use Spotlight at all.
Good to know it, though.  Thanks again.

By the way, would it be useful to provide a command line tool,
I mean officially, that converts between  Skim supported formats?
(Now I have a handy one thanks to your help. ;-))

Best,

mahn-soo

2008/7/17 Christiaan Hofman <cmh...@gm...>:
> Almost. A PDF bundle saved by Skim contains two more files that are
> used by the Spotlight importer. So bundles saved with this script will
> have only partial Spotlight support.
>
> Christiaan
>
> On 17 Jul 2008, at 9:05 AM, Mahn-Soo Choi wrote:
>
>> Dear Christiaan,
>>
>> even better! Now I understand the structure of the PDF bundle.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> mahn-soo
>>
>>
>>
>> 2008/7/16 Christiaan Hofman <cmh...@gm...>:
>>> And if you don't like launching Skim you can also use the skimnotes
>>> tool.
>>>
>>>
>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>
>>> file="$1"
>>> bundle="${file%.pdf}.pdfd"
>>> name="${file##*/}"
>>> name="${name%.pdf}"
>>>
>>> skimnotes="/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/skimnotes"
>>>
>>> mkdir "$bundle"
>>> cp "$file" "$bundle"
>>> "$skimnotes" get -format skim "$file" ${bundle}"/${name}.skim"
>>> "$skimnotes" get -format text "$file" ${bundle}"/${name}.txt"
>>> "$skimnotes" get -format rtf "$file" ${bundle}"/${name}.rtf"
>>> "$skimnotes" remove ${bundle}"/${name}.pdf"
>>>
>>>
>>> Christiaan
>>>
>>> On 16 Jul 2008, at 11:57 AM, Mahn-Soo Choi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Christiaan,
>>>>
>>>> that's exactly I wanted.  Thanks a lot!
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> mahn-soo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2008/7/16 Christiaan Hofman <cmh...@gm...>:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 16 Jul 2008, at 4:41 AM, Mahn-Soo Choi wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a simple way to export a PDF to a PDF bundle
>>>>>> from command line (without using Skim GUI)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for any help in advance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> mahn-soo
>>>>>
>>>>> It takes a few lines (or one very long line), but you could do it
>>>>> using osascript. If you save the lines below in a script file and
>>>>> make
>>>>> it executable, you could use it from the command line.
>>>>>
>>>>> Christiaan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>>>
>>>>> file="$1"
>>>>> [ ${file:0:1} == "/" ] || file="${PWD}/${file}"
>>>>>
>>>>> osascript \
>>>>> -e "tell application \"Skim\"" \
>>>>> -e "activate" \
>>>>> -e "open POSIX file \"${file}\"" \
>>>>> -e "save front document in POSIX file \"${file}d\" as \"PDF Bundle
>>>>> \"" \
>>>>> -e "end tell"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>