> On 13 Jun 2021, at 22:26, Jan David Hauck via Skim-app-users
> <skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
No, there is no such option. You could just delete the contents of the
(highlight) notes from the Skim notes, before embedding. You may perhaps use an
AppleScript to help with that. For instance:
tell front document of application "Skim"
repeat with aNote in notes
if type of aNote is in {highlight note, underline note, strike
out note} then
set text of aNote to ""
end if
end repeat
end tell
Christiaan
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