On 20 Aug 2007, at 9:48 AM, EUROPOL wrote: > Hi there, > > thanks for the great job so far. Skim is much better to use, faster > and > consistent than the ugly Acrobat 7.0 - which i used with by now about > 1000 PDF-texts - some of them OCRed scans - that i dont want to loose. > > 1. The most important question conceirns the future of the project. > Is your xml-format easy to convert into this future file format? On > what criterias are the markers, notes etc. synced to the pdf file? Is > there a documentation of .skim-files that are as far as I see > binarized > xml-files? (by the way to all users: these skim files can be converted > into standard xml via the command plutil -convert xml1 /path/to/ > skimfile ) >
The xml you get this way is not very readable (I wouldn't know how to interpret it). It's generated internally by Apple's frameworks, and the xml is not really useful for anything. It's a standard Apple archive of only standard objects from Apple's frameworks, so it should always be readable using standard Apple methods. We haven't documented it, but the keys in the template description on the Wiki should give some idea of the available keys (it's just a dictionary with strings as keys and standard objects as values). > 2. Does anyone know about concepts migrating PDF-comments > (exportable as > so-called fdf-files) into Skim? > No. > 3. I would appreciate keycommands for different (marker)colors - lets > say: ALT-OPTION-1 color1 (eg yellow) ALT-OPTION 2 green and so on. > Not enough keys on your keyboard; and which colors? > 4. If you have plans about hierarchical bookmarks analog to > webbrowsers > it would be a good idea to have an first default entry "bookmarks > of the > current document". > No plans. > Once again: I am really impressed by your work and are very happy > to get > rid of the proprietary, inconsistent and unlogical Acrobat. > > Greetings > > Euro Schwenzer > > P.S: Skims biggest limitation is the platform-dependence. In a few > years > i hope there will be a free standard comparable to PDF that is able to > have the same features (layoutet documents, use of OCRed pictures). > Are > you in touch with such developements? Maybe Skim can envolve into a > reader for such a format?SSA > No. Skim itself depends heavily on Apple's frameworks, which are not (completely) ported to other frameworks. And as I said the skim notes data is generated by Apple. It would perhaps be possible to write some procedures to read it on other platforms, but it would require you to figure out the xml format of the archive. Note that Skim does not support OCR. And the layout of the notes you see (almost) follows Adobe's specifications for PDF annotations. So I'm not really sure what standard you're talking about. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
