Re: [Skim-app-users] question about note margin

Thank you for your quick response and explanation Christiaan! Best, Don On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 4:59 AM Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > > On 12 Dec 2022, at 06:06, Donald Williams > wrote: > > Dear Skim developers, > > I have been using Skim for a long time, and thank you so much for > developing

Re: [Skim-app-users] question about note margin

> On 12 Dec 2022, at 06:06, Donald Williams > wrote: > > Dear Skim developers, > > I have been using Skim for a long time, and thank you so much for developing > such a great tool. > > There is one thing about note margin that has been bothering me for a long > time. I checked the FAQ,

[Skim-app-users] question about note margin

Dear Skim developers, I have been using Skim for a long time, and thank you so much for developing such a great tool. There is one thing about note margin that has been bothering me for a long time. I checked the FAQ, Tips and Tricks on the Skim Wiki, Hidden Preferences, past mail archive,

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

Yes, I'm discovering that even the text selection rectangle seems to vary depending on the PDF engine, i.e., PDFKit vs. others. That will affect which characters get found, or not. In any case, thanks again for clearing this up for me. On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 6:52 PM Christiaan Hofman wrote: >

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

Yes. But you should realize that the PDFKit method to get selection and lines of text may not work as good, also because of the way text is payed out in the PDF. For instance, PDFKit may decide that some characters may not lie inside a rectangle due to rounding errors, or sometimes the opposite

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

Thanks for clarifying. I think I understand now. I looked at the API for PDFKit and found several methods in class PDFPage that might make it possible to fetch lines of text, e.g., selection(). I guess(?) I could try to take the selection rectangles from the skim notes, and then try using PDFKit

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

No, there is no way to exert that data, as that data does not exist. The data of the notes is data from the notes, and what the notes know about themselves is prescribed by Adobe in the PDF specifications. And that contains just a text string. Christiaan > On 16 Mar 2022, at 02:23, Mark

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

Thanks for going into more detail. Sorry if I wasn't clear, but I'm not trying to ask for changes to the behavior of the Skim app itself. I'm mainly wondering if there is a way to somehow access or export this information about notes, based on the data that is saved plus what's in the PDF. If

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

BTW, I should say that some time ago we *did* try to remove hyphens and combine broken lines. But it was simply too unreliable based on the available information, and went wrong far too often. Christiaan > On 16 Mar 2022, at 00:35, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > Perhaps you can get some

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

Perhaps you can get some information about the placement of the lines. But we don’t even get information from the PDF about what the orientation is (sometimes PDFs use rotated coordinate systems, e.g. in landscape pages). Also, the selected text may not consist of full lines, so the end of the

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

I understand what PDF is about, so I guess I don't see what the issue is with getting lines of text. Looking at the PDF level, there are postscript commands placing characters or strings on a page. These have bounding boxes. Meanwhile, the Skim notes have highlights. In this case, text

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

No, it is a limitation of the PDF format.You just get a string for the characters. The hyphen is also just one of the characters. There is no information about the underlying text that was used to generate the PDF. You should realize that PDF is an output format. Christiaan > On 15 Mar 2022,

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

I sort of half understand what you are explaining, but maybe an example would help. Let's say I have four lines of text in a PDF, e.g.: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, *consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eius-* *mod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.* Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

I don’t know. It is just not possible to work with information that does not exist. All of this is just trying to be smart in interpreted whatever data exists. In this case, the information does not exist, and never existed. Again, the highlighted text is never part of the data of the note, it

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

Thanks for clarifying. I guess my question remains: how can I fix up these hyphenated lines in my notes? I can parse and process the XML output from skimnotes, but it seems there isn't enough data to identify lines. The issue is that full-text search of the notes won't work if words are broken

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

You should realize that the text of the note is a completely separate data element from the highlighted text. The highlighted text is not part of the note, it is just te text that happens to lie behind the highlight in the PDF. We just set the text of the note to the text you highlight by

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

Hi, This is very helpful — thanks !! I just tried your suggestion and got an XML file as expected. I more or less understand all the elements of the XML, but it seems the entire note is in a element, while the quadrilateralPoints for the highlighting boxes are separate. What I was hoping to do

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

> On 14 Mar 2022, at 11:13, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > > >> On 14 Mar 2022, at 10:56, Christiaan Hofman > > wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 14 Mar 2022, at 10:50, Christiaan Hofman >> > wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 14 Mar 2022, at 04:49,

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

> On 14 Mar 2022, at 10:56, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > > >> On 14 Mar 2022, at 10:50, Christiaan Hofman > > wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 14 Mar 2022, at 04:49, Mark Roberts >> > wrote: >>> >>> Is there some way to get more detailed

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

> On 14 Mar 2022, at 10:50, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > > >> On 14 Mar 2022, at 04:49, Mark Roberts > > wrote: >> >> Is there some way to get more detailed information about skim notes, i.e., >> other than the code framework? >> >> I have tried the

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

> On 14 Mar 2022, at 04:49, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Is there some way to get more detailed information about skim notes, i.e., > other than the code framework? > > I have tried the skimnotes command line tool (e.g., the 'get' and 'format' > commands), but it seems to only output the basic

[Skim-app-users] Question about accessing Skim Notes

Is there some way to get more detailed information about skim notes, i.e., other than the code framework? I have tried the skimnotes command line tool (e.g., the 'get' and 'format' commands), but it seems to only output the basic information about notes, such as the note type, page number, and

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question

> On 26 Jun 2019, at 20:18, wo wrote: > > Is this the right place to ask a basic question? > > Example: Mojave: the color column in the Notes Panel is missing (it’s there > on High Sierra and previous OS machines). Is this a known issue? Yes, this is the place to ask basic questions about

[Skim-app-users] Question

Is this the right place to ask a basic question? Example: Mojave: the color column in the Notes Panel is missing (it’s there on High Sierra and previous OS machines). Is this a known issue? ___ Skim-app-users mailing list

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about synchronization TexStudio to Skim

> On Oct 27, 2016, at 18:48, Pierre BASSO wrote: > > Hello > > Since some days I asked a question about synchronization betwen > TexStudio and Skim. I ask again : > > I work with MacOSX 10.11 and I use Skim as external pdfviewer with > TexStudio. Until release 1.4.21

[Skim-app-users] Question about synchronization TexStudio to Skim

Hello Since some days I asked a question about synchronization betwen TexStudio and Skim. I ask again : I work with MacOSX 10.11 and I use Skim as external pdfviewer with TexStudio. Until release 1.4.21 the synchronization with TexStudio worked fine. Calling Skim from TexStudio worked with

[Skim-app-users] Question about PDFKit handling of ligatures (font encoding problem?)

This is not directly a question about Skim, but it seems to me that the community of Skim users would be a good place to inquire about this issue, since we're all at the mercy of the way PDFKit handles PDFs on the Mac — my apologies for stretching the meaning of "discussions about Skim" a bit.

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about script to change color of notes

Ah yes, I could have figured that out ;) all fine now. Thanks! On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 19, 2014, at 23:43, Jan David Hauck wrote: Now it tells me: *error* The variable theAnswer is not defined. number -2753 from theAnswer On

[Skim-app-users] Question about script to change color of notes

Hello list, I recently came across an issue when using the Set color of notes script which I downloaded from the wiki. It works fine when I have only one pdf open. However, when I have multiple pdf's open no matter if I chose Front or All in the dialogue asking me for the document that I want

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about script to change color of notes

On Sep 19, 2014, at 22:05, Jan David Hauck wrote: Hello list, I recently came across an issue when using the Set color of notes script which I downloaded from the wiki. It works fine when I have only one pdf open. However, when I have multiple pdf's open no matter if I chose Front or

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about script to change color of notes

Now it tells me: *error* The variable theAnswer is not defined. number -2753 from theAnswer On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 19, 2014, at 22:05, Jan David Hauck wrote: Hello list, I recently came across an issue when using the Set color

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about script to change color of notes

On Sep 19, 2014, at 23:43, Jan David Hauck wrote: Now it tells me: error The variable theAnswer is not defined. number -2753 from theAnswer On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 19, 2014, at 22:05, Jan David Hauck wrote: Hello list, I

[Skim-app-users] question script

Hello list, I'm trying to find an Apple script called *Highlight Occurrences of Text* (assuming it allows me to automatically highlight multiple instances of a given search term) but I can't find it. For some reason I'm too stupid even to find where I've dowloaded other scripts before. Thanks, Jan

Re: [Skim-app-users] question script

On Jun 21, 2014, at 22:29, Jan David Hauck wrote: Hello list, I'm trying to find an Apple script called Highlight Occurrences of Text (assuming it allows me to automatically highlight multiple instances of a given search term) but I can't find it. For some reason I'm too stupid even to

Re: [Skim-app-users] question script

Thank you! Great! On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Christiaan Hofman cmhof...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 21, 2014, at 22:40, Christiaan Hofman wrote: On Jun 21, 2014, at 22:29, Jan David Hauck wrote: Hello list, I'm trying to find an Apple script called *Highlight Occurrences of Text*

[Skim-app-users] Question about notes conversion

I have a PDF that has notes in it apparently created from Adobe Acrobat. If I choose Convert notes, the first note is converted, but then the sheet that says Converting notes just stays there indicating that it's working on converting, but no notes are converted. I notice also that the

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question about notes conversion

Thanks Adam. I found the bug (was enumerating the notes while they were changed, that's dangerous). That will be fixed. As for the text being all in the title, that's because standard PDF text annotations (AOT Skim's anchored notes) don't have a rich text property (or an image).

[Skim-app-users] Question or request

Hi there, First of all thanks a lot and congratulations for the great program that you have build. There is one thing that, I don't know if it is possible but I think it would be nice. When I am reading a PDF with text in columns (as the major of the e-magazines) I can not select the text

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question or request

See if the following Skim help topic helps: Selecting and copying text in a PDF file -Adam G. On Oct 30, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Orlando Figueiredo wrote: Hi there, First of all thanks a lot and congratulations for the great program that you have build. There is one thing that, I don't know

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question or request

That worked perfectly. I only feel a little stupid... lol. Thank you Orlando On 2007/10/30, at 21:15, Adam M. Goldstein wrote: Selecting and copying text in a PDF file Orlando Figueiredo _ www.OrlandoFigueiredo.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: of1967

Re: [Skim-app-users] Question concerning PDFSync, Latex, and Columns

Thanks for the quick response. That is kindof a bummer. I see you put a request into Apple on several occasions. Too bad they aren't giving it much thought. I got so excited when I saw Skim and thought I could do all of my paper writing without X11 running, but I use the forward and