From: Christiaan H. <cmh...@gm...> - 2010-06-18 15:11:52
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On Jun 18, 2010, at 14:28, Charles Turner wrote: > On Jun 18, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> These two texts are very different things, and don't need to be equal. > > Oh, yes, of course. > >> Again, because they ARE empty, as Preview/Acrobat does not set them. When I say that Skim sets the text I mean when you create the highlight in Skim. > > OK. So I wrote a hack to convert Preview/Acrobat-style highlights to Skim highlights, and populate the note text. I had some Applescript trouble with the references in a note's selection, so it's written in Python/py-appscript. If anyone might know what I'm doing wrong there, I'd greatly appreciate any pointers. > > <http://www.vze26m98.net/skim/skim-hilites.zip> > > This is proving very handy to convert highlights (the only annotation that I use) made with iAnnotate on the iPad so that my results are available in Skim. > > Thanks again for Skim, Christiaan! > > Anyone attempting to use this should keep in mind that it isn't elaborately tested. I'd appreciate hearing if you have either trouble or success. > > Best wishes, > > Charles > I don't know py-appscript, but you can get the text for the selection easily using the applescript "get text for" command, I think that becomes get_text_for in py_appscript. Christiaan |