When I open a file in Skim that has been annotated in a program other than Skim 
and “convert notes” to the Skim format, for those annotations that are 
associated with text in the PDF (such as Highlights, Underlines, or 
Strikethroughs), Skim usually reads the text and saves it as note content 
(which I can then delete, edit, modify or do whatever I please with in Skim).

Now, when I export the file back to a PDF “with embedded notes,” Skim exports 
these “contents” of highlights or underlines as notes associated with 
highlights  (not sure if that’s the right terminology in PDFKit language) – 
they show up in some other PDF programs as a kind of anchored notes associated 
with a stretch of highlight/underline etc.
(This is the case both when I export through the menu with the file open in 
Skim but also when I use the skimpdf tool with `skimpdf embed …`)

Is there a way (either in Skim or skimpdf) to delete/omit those “contents” from 
highlights upon (or before) exporting to PDF with embedded notes?

The particular use case is importing/exporting to Skim from/to iPad.  I rarely 
modify the contents of highlights, preferring to use separate anchored or text 
notes for adding text to a PDF.
It would therefore be nice to have an option to delete the anchored notes from 
highlights so that the page isn’t cluttered with anchored notes on the iPad.





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