Many thanks Christiaan!
I am more than happy to have the workaround, and now have a working list
of bookmarks.
Regards,
Alan
On 31/10/2020 18:54, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
> That is unfortunately a bug in the AppleScript support code, the wrong
> key was used for the file property. This is already fixed for the next
> release, which should come out very soon. You could wait for that, or
> you may try the following workaround. Instead of passing the file in
> the “with properties” argument, you could use the “with data”
> argument, as in
>
> make new bookmarks thisFolder with data file of theDoc with properties
> {name:”page 42”, page index:42}
>
> Christiaan
>
>> On 31 Oct 2020, at 18:28, Alan Davidson <a...@dsv.su.se
>> <mailto:a...@dsv.su.se>> wrote:
>>
>> 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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