"Jeff Fisher" wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but skimnotes will generate a completely > empty file for any pdf that has no skim notes. Would it be possible > to avoid generating this file all together in the case of no notes? > > I'm thinking that one could recurse over an entire directory tree of > pdfs exporting the notes (for backup, collaborative sharing, > publishing, etc) for all files that had been marked up. Of course, > afterwards you could go over it removing all those files that were > empty, but it seems better not to generate them to begin with.
AppleScript can be your friend here. And, if you wish to work in a shell environment, then 'osascript' is at your disposal so you won't have to "leave" that environment. That is to say, you can recurse over a directory and know if there are notes (there will be a '.skim' file) or not. Notes can be extracted via the CL tool or AppleScript at that point. This is what I do to pull skim notes out of PDFs that have been added to an EndNote database. This doesn't preclude a tweak to the CL tool, of course, but you don't have to wait for that. -- Gary ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
