It is meant as a description of the note. Like in the table, and in a Skim notes file. Otherwise, it would just say that it is a highlight on a page, not which one. It is partially also historically, as we also did not have the highlighted text in the extension in the table. And Preview did not have the extra popup squares you mentioned.So in Skim, it is not meant to be seen as an extra note. Just the description of the note, that you can also edit if you want. It’s when you convert that it becomes an extra annotation attached to the note. But we don’t control the conversion, that is done by Apple’s PDFKit.
Christiaan > On 29 Jan 2024, at 00:03, Carlos Pita <carlosjosep...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you very much, that worked! > > Would you mind explaining the rationale behind storing notes that way? > I feel like I'm not getting the gist of it. I see highlights as one > thing that you may or may not associate with a note, and when you > associate a note to them this is marked somehow near the highlight so > as to hint you that there is an annotation there. I could achieve this > in Skim with an anchored note next to the highlight, but since the > highlight itself has its own field for the annotation it seems to me > that I'm missing something. Anyway, supposing that I changed the > default note of the highlight, then: 1. I could not tell from the > highlight itself whether it is annotated or not, 2. Even from the > sidebar it would be difficult to find actually annotated (I mean, by > me) highlights, because all of them are annotated by default. > > Is there a general structure behind this? Like if everything has to > have a title and content or something like that? > > Best regards, > Carlos > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 7:28 PM Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 28 Jan 2024, at 23:15, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 28 Jan 2024, at 19:23, Carlos Pita <carlosjosep...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> when I save a pdf with notes embedded from Skim I get something like >> the attached image in Preview and other readers. Skim has this >> particular thing of creating an annotation with the same content than >> the associated highlight that doesn't play very well with the way >> other readers and editors work (usually you explicitly add a note to a >> highlight with your own thoughts). >> >> Moreover, if I save the file in Preview and open it again in Skim I >> often see note icons added by Preview next to each highlight, even >> though those notes were automatically created by Skim and not actually >> annotations of my own. >> >> Is there any way to disable this behavior? >> >> Best regards, >> Carlos >> <image.png>_______________________________________________ >> Skim-app-users mailing list >> Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users >> >> >> No, there is no way to disable this.BTW, you can still clear it in Skim. >> >> Christiaan >> >> >> Apologies, it is possible to disable the default text for the notes. Set the >> hidden preference SKDisableUpdateContentsFromEnclosedText to 2. Please see >> the Wiki for details. >> >> >> Christiaan _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
