Thanks for the explanation, it's clear now. So if this field is a "description of the note" I think I prefer to set SKDisableUpdateContentsFromEnclosedText = 2 over the default, and to explicitly add a description (not an annotation) to important highlights (e.g. some definition). The only downside I see to this is that since highlights are collapsed by default I will be in the situation you described as "it would just say that it is a highlight on a page, not which one", but I think it's ok to me.
Best regards, Carlos On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 8:16 PM Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> On 28 Jan 2024, at 23:15, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> On 28 Jan 2024, at 19:23, Carlos Pita <[email protected]> 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 > >> [email protected] > >> 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
