Re: [Skim-app-users] Request: Conversion of notes using command-line tool

[Alex Montgomery-A. <ah...@ma...>]

A simple command-line binary that does what the current Convert Notes function does would be great. I imagine that wrapping it in a drag-and-drop app might be useful for some as well.

Thanks
-Alex

On 2010-08-25, at 2:43 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

> 
> On Aug 25, 2010, at 21:57, Alex Montgomery-Amo wrote:
> 
>> Skim folks:
>> 
>> I've been trying to create a workflow between iAnnotate PDF (iPad), Skim, and BibDesk. The idea is that any new annotations made in iAnnotate PDF should be automatically converted to skim-style notes when the PDF is updated.
>> 
>> I have the workflow in place through a combination of Dropbox and Hazel, using the latter to detect file changes, then run an applescript to open up the PDF in Skim and convert the notes (happy to share if anyone's interested). This would be much more useful, however, if it could be done without opening up Skim to open up the PDF every time.
>> 
>> Therefore, the request: that the skimnotes command-line tool be made capable of converting notes. I don't know whether this is a complicated or a relatively simple change. If complicated, perhaps it's not worth it. I'm posting it here to see if there's anyone else interested in this, or whether this is just me.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> -AHM
> 
> I'd really like to keep that tool as simple, small, clean, and independent as possible, including not use PDFKit (and all the bugs that come with it). 
> 
> However a simple binary (tool or app) that can convert notes is very easy to write. 
> 
> Christiaan
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