On Jun 29, 2012, at 10:07, humanengr wrote:
> If you save an open document using AppleScript, I strongly advise you to use
> the "save" AppleScript command rather than an using a shell script. The shell
> script is a compromise that does not do exactly the same as Skim for
> embedding, that was developed for the case where you don't want to have to
> open the document and/or launch the app. The command is something like
> save as "PDF With Embedded Notes" in theFile
> Christiaan
> Going that route, I have:
>
> tell application "Skim"
>
> set _file to front document's file
>
> set _filename to front document's file as string
>
> tell application "Finder" to set _ext to name extension of (info for _file)
>
> if _ext is "pdf" then
>
> set _end to (length of ".pdf") + 1
>
> set _basename to (characters 1 thru -_end of _filename) as string
>
> save front document in _basename as "PDF With Embedded Notes"
>
> tell application "Finder" to say "embedded"
>
> else
>
> tell application "Finder" to say "not a pdf"
>
> end if
>
> end tell
>
> But if I run the script and then close the file, a "save" dialog appears, to
> which the user must respond "Don't Save" to preserve the embedding. I'm
> probably missing an obvious way to prevent that dialog from appearing.
>
No, there is no way to prevent it, other from actually saving the changes (so
you could save and then save with embedded notes on top of it). But this is not
in any way related to using a different way of saving with embedded notes. The
reason you did not get it in the previous AppleScript was because you did save
(without embedding) explicitly. Quite frankly, it also does not make sense to
save the way you did before, because you save a file *without* embedded notes
over a file *with* embedded notes, so in the end you were not even ending up
with a file with embedded notes.
Christiaan
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