Hi,
I wasn't able to copy and paste a page from a PDF document into another with
Skim. Is there a way?
I *can* copy any *single* page from a document, and then use the "new from
clipboard" menu item, but:
1- I cannot copy *several* pages in the first step. Is there a way?
2- I cannot do it one page at a time because I cannot paste a page into an
existing document. Is there a way?
To give you some background:
I started to use Skim just a few days ago, mainly because of its Applescript
support. I need to be able to split very large PDF files (over 4000 pages)
into smaller pieces. Each piece may have a variable number of pages,
depending on the context (text) of the specific pages.
My script is sucessful in identifying the starting page and the ending page
of each segment.
However, I am stuck, as I cannot manage to extract those pages into a new
document.
I tried things like:
tell application "Skim"
make new document with data (pages 3 thru 5 of document 1)
end tell
But it failed with error message "Skim got an error: Applescript handler
failed".
Note that "make new document" works fine: Skim creates an empty document,
but then I cannot populate it, as I seem to misunderstand the "join"
statement, as in:
join pages 1 thru 4 of document "source.pdf" to document "dest.pdf"
Which fails with "can't get document "dest.pdf""
I am still not finished exploring, but I can't really see a promising track
a this point. I hope I don't have (for performance reasons), to fall down to
an algorithm along the lines of:
For each page subrange
duplicate source document
remove from duplicate all pages not belonging to current segment
rename and save duplicate document
I'd welcome some help.
Thanks,
Jean-Denis
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