On Nov 5, 2013, at 19:26, Janosch Linkersdörfer wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to use the skimpdf command line tool instead of the GUI to > convert notes (and highlights) made with PdfExpert on the iPad to Skim notes. > > When I convert a PDF containing notes, it works like the GUI menu command, > when I convert a PDF containing highlights, it does not. The highlighting is > converted, but when I display the notes (Cmd-Shift-N), they are empty. When I > convert the same PDF using the GUI command, the highlighted text is displayed > as the note. > > It would be great if you could tell me what I might do wrong! > > Thanks, > > Janosch
You're not doing anything wrong, it works exactly as it is supposed to work. You should realize that there is a difference between the selected text (i.e. the text in the PDF behind the note) and the text of the note. These are completely separate things. You may be fooled into thinking that they have anything to do with each other, because in Skim we set the text of the note to the selected text when you create a new highlight. The former is in the PDF, and has nothing to do with the note, only visually. What you see in the table is the text of the note itself, not the text behind the note in the PDF. When you convert the text of the note is just what it was before conversion, which usually means it's empty. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
