Michael Singer wrote:
What are the prospects for having Skim usable, at least as a reader,
-within- DEVONthink rather than as an external editor/reader?
and later
Christiaan, Adam -- I've posted a related request to the Devon forum;
Michael,
I'm not surprised you failed to find the threads on the DEVONthink
forums concerning Skim as the site's internal search engine is
decidedly hit and miss. There has been quite a head of steam building
up on those forums from Skim users - almost obviously because those
of us who read a lot of pdfs will be drawn to Skim - and to
DEVONthink as the database. From your post over there Michael
(excellent btw) I expect you've now seen the discussion, summed up by
someone on those forums six months ago writing:
"[DEVONthink] heralding itself as the premier content and document
data manager MUST be able to access text entered in PDF files, both
through Preview and Skim. This is a basic reqirement in this age.
(And I believe EagleFiler can handle this task.) This is one more
example of limited handling of metada"
To save everyone a lot of reading, the consistent DT response over
the last six months has been threefold. First, decidedly sniffy,
unfairly disregarding Skim as a proprietary format. Second, to leave
one assuming 'the developers' are aware and working on a solution
(probably their own alternative), though as someone in their forums
stated, it's been a long, long wait [don't we just appreciate
Christiaan's responsiveness?] and third, the project lead Eric
Boehnisch has just linked to a suggested workflow, an approach that
requires a disciplined, systematic, organised... well lets just say
the no fuss, drag and drop approach to handling Skim pdfs _and_ their
notes of BibDesk or Eaglefinder stand as commendable examples of what
is needed, and needed now.
There's clearly a lot of folk like me with a large DT database of
pdf's but not sure how best to integrate with Skim.
http://www.devon-technologies.com/scripts/userforum/search.php?
keywords=skim&search_terms=all&search_forum=-1&search_time=0&search_fiel
ds=all&search_cat=-1&sort_by=0&sort_dir=DESC&show_results=topics&return_
chars=200
Michael
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