Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On May 30, 2015, at 21:21, Fran Calcraft wrote: > >> Christiaan Hofman wrote: >>> >>> On May 28, 2015, at 20:02, Fran Calcraft wrote: >>> >>>> The instructions in the Skim Wiki for changing the page background >>>> colour do not make much sense to me. This is the instruction: >>>> >>>> Key : SKPageBackgroundColor >>>> Values : -data, archived color, or an -array of -float >>>> Explanation : Set this to change the default white background color of >>>> pages. This can be an array of one to four floats between 0 and 1, or >>>> data for an archived color. >>>> >>>> I got everything entered into the Terminal for the setting, but using a >>>> hexadecimal code for the background colour value did not do anything. >>>> Presumably I misunderstood the meaning? What is an "archived color" >>>> anyway? >>>> >>>> The colour I want for the background is #FFFF88. Is there any way to >>>> get that? I did not use the "#" in front of the hex digits, since >>>> Terminal treated that as an error. >>> >>> >>> An archived color is a a raw data representation of the AppKit color. But >>> you would never be able to guess what this should be (you could perhaps >>> copy it form some other value.) >>> >>> Easiest is to use an array of floats, in your case -array -float 1 -float 1 >>> -float 0.53333. You can also use AppleScript to set the page background >>> color, then you can choose one using a color panel. >>> >>> Christiaan >>> >> I tried the code that you gave me, but it did not do anything. A loaded >> document still had a white background. What I used was: >> >> defaults write net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim SKPageBackgroundColor -array >> -float 1 -float 1 -float 0.53333 >> > > That does work for me. Are you sure you did this when Skim was not running? > >> I have no idea how to use Applescript. How do you specify the application >> it is to control? How is the background colour for all documents to be >> opened by that application controlled? The help I was able to find assumes >> some knowledge of Applescript to begin with, and I have none. > > > This sample script (open in AppleScript Editor.app) does it: > > > tell application "Skim" > set page background color to (choose color) > end tell > > > Christiaan > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > Maybe the file I was using to test was not a typical PDF file. That terminal command does work with some of the files I have but not all of them. Is there some way a colour scheme can be locked into a document to make it impossible to change easily? Thanks for your efforts so far.
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