On 21 Apr 2008, at 2:12 PM, Jean-Denis Muys wrote:

>
> On 21/04/08 13:37, "Claus Atzenbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I would use a command line tool like pdftk. If your AppleScript works
>> for identifying the pages you need to extract, why don't you use it  
>> for
>> producing a shell script that calls pdftk with appropriate  
>> parameters?
>>
>
> Thanks for that. Yes it does look like pdftk will help.
>
> That being said, I am still interested in understanding whether Skim  
> could
> be scripted to split/merge PDF files, if only to know whether I  
> failed to
> use it correctly, or whether it has limitation.
>
> Is skim supposed to be able to paste PDF pages into a PDF document?  
> Or to
> copy more than one page at one time?
>

I answered that question: Skim does not support this. You may search  
this list form a recent discussion about the reasons.

> If it turns out that this is a Skim limitation, would there be an  
> interest
> for me to dive in the code and try to fix it? Or is this beyond its  
> scope?
>
> Regards,
>
> JD


No, as noted in the earlier thread it's incompatible with some  
fundamental features of Skim. So it's beyond it's scope.

Christiaan


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