In v. 1.7 of the PDF spec, § 12.5.6.2 for Markup Annotations specifies a
CreationDate.

Not applicable?

Thanks,

M.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 6:51 PM Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> The point is that they don’t. See the Adobe specifications.
>
> Christiaan
>
> On 13 Feb 2023, at 03:15, Mark Roberts <mroberts1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I set this idea aside for a while, but then I had an idea...
>
> As it stands now, each Skim note includes a modification date. What if it
> also included a UUID, or a creation date that never changes?
>
> If one of these were added to the note structure, then they could also be
> referenced in a URL. In this fashion, a Skim URL could resolve to a
> specific note.
>
> The use case I have in mind is another app reading the Skim notes sidecar
> file, and generating hyperlinks that could resolve to the same note.
>
> Thanks again
>
> M.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 6:41 PM Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 26 Jan 2023, at 05:17, Mark Roberts <mroberts1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm using the "Deep Links Using Skim URLs" feature, to open a PDF file in
>> Skim.
>>
>> I can use a "page=" fragment to open to a particular page, but I'm
>> wondering if there's a way to open to both a page and to select one of my
>> notes (highlighted text) on that page.
>>
>> Possible?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>> No, that is not possible. It wouldn’t even be possible, there is no
>> reliable way to identify a note.
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>
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