Thanks, I missed that discussion. I've created a similar AppleScript below (not
familiar with Python) that will take all open documents in Skim, convert the
notes, then attempt to put the selected text into the note associated with each
selection. It attempts to preserve notes that already exist by appending the
selected text to the note, separated by a colon; if the note on a selection
already contains the selection text, it skips it. It also does a little
cleaning of selections, appending spaces and removing hyphens. It also SAVES
the documents, so be careful, since if it accidentally overwrites older
annotations, you're out of luck.
A complete workflow would automatically identify changed documents (synced back
from iAnnotate, for example), open them in Skim, convert the notes, and close
them again, but I haven't gotten any further than finding out that it's
possible to launch actions from launchd, and that you could use Lingon to write
launchd .plists (or at least you used to be able to do that...)
-AHM
tell application "Skim"
repeat with _doc in documents
convert notes _doc
set _notes to notes of _doc
repeat with _note in _notes
set _sel to selection of _note
if _sel is not missing value then
set _text to ""
repeat with _selpart in _sel
set _text to _text & attribute run 1 of
(get text for {_selpart})
if character -1 of _text is "-" then
set _text to characters 1 thru
-2 of _text as string
else
set _text to _text & " "
end if
end repeat
set _textalt to attribute run 1 of (get text
for _sel)
set _annote to text of _note
if _annote is "" or _annote is _textalt then
set text of _note to _text
else if _annote does not contain _text then
set text of _note to _annote & ":" &
_text
end if
end if
end repeat
save _doc
end repeat
end tell
On 2010-07-20, at 12:16 AM, Charles Turner wrote:
> On Jul 19, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Matt Mollison wrote:
>
>> Alex, If you figure this out (even using AppleScript), would you mind
>> posting something about your iPad/Skim/BibDesk workflow either to this list
>
> There was discussion of this right here on June 19th. I wrote an Applescript
> to convert iAnnotate annotations to Skim formats. You can find it here:
>
> <http://vze26m98.net/skim/skim-hilites.zip>
>
> It's designed to be used with the frontmost window in Skim and converts three
> note types, which can be fiddled with or commented out. As I described it to
> a friend:
>
> "The really important part is the extraction of text from the PDF hilite.
> Otherwise, you get a Skim Note, but no text.
>
> The "text note" formatting is just to make the iAnnotate notes look like the
> Skim equivalent. You can adjust to taste, or comment out.
>
> The final "anchored note" is an interesting one. Skim creates a note with a
> title, and "extended text." Currently, the script just puts everything in the
> title, but if you look at what's commented out, you can play with how the
> text is apportioned."
>
> Note that this could be modified for bulk conversion. Obviously, Skim would
> have to be opened, but once it is, just open and close your list of PDFs.
>
> I'd be happy to support this, with the usual caveats about backing up your
> precious data, but I'll move the DL location in the next day...
>
> HTH, Charles
>
>
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