The data consists of archived Obj-C objects. It is not meant to be human
readable, it is meant to be used by an Obj-C program such as Skim. If you want
to turn that into some kind of human readable format you should use Obj-C (or
indirectly PyObjC) to inspect those objects, and calculate actual numbers and
strings you may use for whatever purpose you want. BTW, what you print here is
not the actual data, it is just some text description of that data that’s
m,mainly used for debugging purposes.
Christiaan
> On Oct 5, 2015, at 11:24, David Becher <becher.da...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello again,
>
> I already saw that there is a command line tool, but can I retrieve all the
> information with it? Like the color of the note?
>
> In the meantime I already figured out that I have to use NSKeyedUnarchiver to
> get the 'real' data - and it worked!
>
> Now what I get in return is an NSArray, which is now 'human-readable'. Below
> there is an example element of that array.
>
> Question: I would like to have some sort of RGB-Value like used to denote
> colors in HTML webpages. I don't quite know what 'NSDeviceRGBColorSpace 0
> 0.976805 0 1' nor to translate it into some sort of RGB(x, y, z) value. Do
> you have an idea?
>
> {
> bounds = "{{72, 114.1443}, {195.22439999999978, 106.05060000000002}}";
> color = "NSDeviceRGBColorSpace 0 0.976805 0 1";
> contents = "An IT artifact, implemented in an organizational context,
> is often the object of study in IS behav- ioral-science research. Theories
> seek to predict or explain phenomena that occur with respect to the
> artifacti\U0301s use (intention to use), perceived usefulness, and impact on
> individuals and organi- zations (net benefits) depending on system, service,
> and information quality (DeLone and McLean 1992, 2003; Seddon 1997).";
> modificationDate = "2015-10-04 13:56:45 +0000";
> pageIndex = 2;
> quadrilateralPoints = (
> "{0, 106.05060000000002}",
> "{195.01650000000024, 106.05060000000002}",
> "{0, 95.99760000000002}",
> "{195.01650000000024, 95.99760000000002}",
> "{0, 94.050900000000027}",
> "{195.14969999999994, 94.050900000000027}",
> "{0, 83.99790000000003}",
> "{195.14969999999994, 83.99790000000003}",
> "{0, 82.051200000000009}",
> "{195.01559999999978, 82.051200000000009}",
> "{0, 71.998200000000011}",
> "{195.01559999999978, 71.998200000000011}",
> "{0, 70.051500000000019}",
> "{194.76180000000011, 70.051500000000019}",
> "{0, 59.998500000000021}",
> "{194.76180000000011, 59.998500000000021}",
> "{0, 58.051800000000028}",
> "{195.05880000000019, 58.051800000000028}",
> "{0, 47.998800000000031}",
> "{195.05880000000019, 47.998800000000031}",
> "{0, 46.05210000000001}",
> "{195.03719999999993, 46.05210000000001}",
> "{0, 35.999100000000013}",
> "{195.03719999999993, 35.999100000000013}",
> "{0, 34.05240000000002}",
> "{195.22439999999978, 34.05240000000002}",
> "{0, 23.999400000000023}",
> "{195.22439999999978, 23.999400000000023}",
> "{0, 22.052700000000002}",
> "{194.99850000000032, 22.052700000000002}",
> "{0, 11.99969999999999}",
> "{194.99850000000032, 11.99969999999999}",
> "{0, 10.052999999999997}",
> "{142.73369999999974, 10.052999999999997}",
> "{0, 0}",
> "{142.73369999999974, 0}"
> );
> type = Highlight;
> }
>
>> On 05 Oct 2015, at 11:12, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It’s a private format.
>>
>> However as for the part you have done, it’s better not to do this yourself.
>> There is a command line tool (skimnotes) embedded in Skim to extract the
>> notes data from the file, so you don’t have to deal with the particulars of
>> the extended attributes and assembly of the parts. This is also explained on
>> the Wiki, and there are also some sample scripts using it.
>>
>> As for the format, it is really archived Obj-C objects. It may look like a
>> plist, but its format is private, and in this case not documented (it’s made
>> by Apple’s frameworks, and they don’t even tell us it’s a plist). To read it
>> you need to use the NSKeyedUnarchiver obj-C class. As the Wiki page says.
>> This should also be possible from python, though I don’t know much about
>> PyObjC.
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>>> On Oct 5, 2015, at 8:15, David Becher <becher.da...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually, I already figured out how to get to the xargs. By having a look
>>> at the source code I saw that you compressed and splitted the data across
>>> different arg values. I was able to join and uncompress them, resulting in
>>> a plist file (and this with not very much knowledge of Obj-C, I am kind of
>>> proud). Now my question: can maybe someone elaborate on the plist-structure
>>> for skim-notes? I want to parse the plist, however all I found was this:
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/wiki/Skim_Notes_Keys/
>>>
>>> and I don't really understand the structure of that table (is that even a
>>> table, it seems wrongly formatted for a table).
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 05 Oct 2015, at 05:10, David Becher <becher.da...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ah, thanks for that. There See even dedicated Python libraries for xargs
>>>> read access :)
>>>>
>>>> Last question: which format did you save the notes in? Just so I know how
>>>> to properly parse :) Is it one of the Obj-C data-types like NSArray?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 5, 2015, at 12:03 AM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Oct 4, 2015, at 23:59, David Becher <becher.da...@googlemail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello there,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am right now typing up a python script which - hopefully - can extract
>>>>>> the notes of a given PDF file annotated with Skim. I don't want to use
>>>>>> AppleScript, on the one hand it is actually possible with AppleScript to
>>>>>> export the notes to text, however it does not provide enough information
>>>>>> (color of highlight e.g.).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, i can't seem to find the physical location in which Skim writes
>>>>>> these notes. It is not the PDF file itself, since its md5sum does not
>>>>>> change. I tried narrowing it down by using `lsof -p <Skim-PID>`, however
>>>>>> ultimately I could not find the file in which it is being stored.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can maybe someone help me out? I would have a look at the source code,
>>>>>> however I don't know a thing about Objective-C at all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All the best,
>>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>> It’s in the extended attributes of the file. That’s also mentioned on the
>>>>> Wiki.
>>>>>
>>>>> Christiaan
>>
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