Re: [Skim-app-users] automatically add highlights to search results?

[Eric G. <eri...@gm...>]

On the bright side, I found a manual (but not as annoying) workaround:

- Search phone number in left-side search panel
- Select summary (instead of individual) view via button next to search text
input
- Highlight each page of results in left panel, and click Add Highlight
button

Parking the mouse pointer on Add Highlight button and using down arrow meant
quickly annotating whole phone bill via pressing Down Arrow and Primary
Click in rapid succession.

This is a bit faster than my previous method.

Luckily, I only have to do this sort of repetitive thing once in a while,
but this should help if anyone else has to highlight phone records to help
build a K-1 visa case for their fiancee! :)

cheers,
e

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Christiaan Hofman <cmh...@gm...>wrote:

> Sigh. This used to work. Apple seems to have broken AppleScript again, if
> it wasn't already broken.
> Christiaan
>
> On 4 Feb 2009, at 1:51 AM, Eric Goldberg wrote:
>
> One more issue: I keep getting an AppleScript Error: "Can't get characters
> X thru Y of text of page Z of document 'foo'"
>
> I'm not too familiar with AppleScript, so if someone can point me in the
> right direction that'd be great. I know other scripting languages, but I'm
> unsure of how to catch an exception or handle invalid input characters in
> the "repeat" ("while?") loop "repeat while theSel is not {}"
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Eric Goldberg <eri...@gm...>wrote:
>
>> Thank-you, Christiaan! I don't know how I missed that. Maybe I was using
>> the wrong search terms. :)
>>
>> For anyone else who wants to see:
>> http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/skim-app/index.php?title=AppleScript#Example_Scripts
>>
>> (2nd script)
>>
>> thanks again,
>> e
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Christiaan Hofman <cmh...@gm...>wrote:
>>
>>> That's typically something for AppleScript to do. In fact, the Wiki
>>> links to a sample script doing exactly this.
>>>
>>> Christiaan
>>>
>>> On 4 Feb 2009, at 1:28 AM, Eric Goldberg wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I'm going through PDFs of a year's worth of phone bills. I want to
>>> > use Skim to automatically highlight every instance of a certain
>>> > telephone number.
>>> >
>>> > Right now, I'm searching and for each result, clicking the highlight
>>> > button (This means repeatedly hitting Command-G, click, Command-G,
>>> > click hehe)
>>> >
>>> > Is there any way to tell Skim to highlight all instances of a
>>> > string? I searched the wiki, the manual, and the FAQ to no avail.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Eric
>>>
>>>
>>>
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