On Jan 14, 2012, at 23:35, Nicole Busch wrote:
> Thank you so much Thomas,
> I am afraid I am not sure where or how I would put this script in, do you
> know how I would do this? Just to clarify I can usually just click "export"
> and then choose the file type as "pdf with embedded notes" and that usually
> works with the exception of about 3 files I have been sent so far. Do you
> think this script would help this?
> Thanks again for your help!
> Nicole
Probably not. If you can't save with embedded notes, than almost certainly the
PDF is print protected, which also means it cannot be saved without the owner
password.
Christiaan
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Thomas Schneider <schne...@mail.nih.gov>
> wrote:
> Nicole:
>
> > I am a teacher and have been using skim to mark pdf files online.
> > Occasionally I get a PDF file that I can open in skim make my notes,
> > and export as a pdf with embedded notes, but when I open this file
> > with Adobe, I can't see the notes I made. If I open it in Skim, the
> > notes are still there. It has happened on a few files but for the
> > most part I can export the file with notes and I can see them just
> > fine. I don't know what I am doing wrong. If you could please help
> > me I would really appreciate it.
>
> Skim keeps its notes in the file system, not in the PDF itself. I
> think this probably trips up every new user. What you have to do is
> "embed" the notes into the actual pdf. I put a script at:
>
> http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/ftp/skimembed
>
> that you can use.
>
> Tom
>
> Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
> National Institutes of Health
> National Cancer Institute
> Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
> Molecular Information Theory Group
> Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
> 301-846-5581
> http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent)
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