In hopes of making Skim a tailored and powerful tool for my purposes I
have started to look at Applescript as a language and as a means to do
things with Skim in particular. I am in need of creating large numbers
of bookmarks that means that the menu dialogues do not cut it, but my
first attempts are not encouraging.
I have tried:
*tell* /application/ "Skim"
*set* theDoc *to the front* /document/
*set* thisFolder *to make*new bookmark with properties {/type/:/folder
bookmark/, name:"First folder"}
*make* new /bookmark/ at thisFolder with properties {/type/:/file
bookmark/, /file/:/file/ *of* theDoc, name:"page 42", page index:42}
*end tell*
...but it would seem that I have misunderstood the file property given
that whatever I try to provide as argument I get:
*Script Error*
Skim got an error: New file bookmark requires a file.
I have tried removing the type argument, as in:
*make* new /bookmark/ at thisFolder with properties {name:"page 42", page
index:42}
and that seems to create a session bookmark that works, but never with
the page index that I give as argument, but only ever with whatever page
that happens to be current in the window of the document that I have
open. I have never managed to create a bookmark that looks the same as
those that are created with the "Add Bookmark" menu choice, either when
viewing them in the "Edit Bookmarks..." window or looking at the
bookmark plist (with Xcode).
I am getting the sense that either something is wrong in the Skim
dictionary, or something is wrong in my understanding of the dictionary
and/or of Applescript. In the hopes that it is the latter - can anyone
give me any pointers in how to get this to work?
Regards,
Alan
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