Thanks for clarifying. True, a creation date is not necessarily unique for a note.
M. On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 11:43 PM Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote: > That is only for markup. Apart from tha, this is not available in PDFKit. > Moreover, a creation date does not (uniquely) identify a note. > > Christiaan > > On 13 Feb 2023, at 13:12, Mark Roberts <mroberts1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users >
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