On 12 May 2009, at 11:37 PM, Alex Montgomery wrote: > > On 2009-05-12, at 2:21 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> >> On 12 May 2009, at 7:33 PM, Alex Montgomery wrote: >> [snip] > >>> 2)when the file is double-clicked in Spotlight, Skim opens up the >>> PDF >>> and searches the *PDF text* for the Spotlight search term, not the >>> *Annotations* for the search term, whereas the intended behavior >>> would >>> be to search in the domain that the text was discovered (in this >>> case, >>> the annotations). Can this be fixed, or is this impossible to do? >> >> It is simply not known whether Spotlight matched information from the >> PDF or the notes. So what's the 'intended' behavior is simply not >> know >> (if Skim would use the Notes search field instead, you'd complain >> when >> you used spotlight to find some text in the PDF, wouldn't you?) So >> neither approach would be 100% right, but the current behavior would >> have the largest chance to get it right. > > Well, that's true if a .pdfd is clicked, since Spotlight would in that > case be searching both the .pdf and .skim files. But if a .skim file > comes up with a hit in the Finder, then Spotlight has matched > information from the notes, not the PDF, so wouldn't it make sense if > Spotlight passes a .skim file and a search term to Skim to have it > search the Notes field instead of the PDF? > > Thanks, > -AHM >
No, because at that point we don't know that we opened a .skim file, as it's really opening a PDF file. So it could have been that you've searched a PDF file in Spotlight (using the system's importer) and then opened it in Skim. We can't tell the difference at the point that the search field is filled. Christiaan >> >>> Last, is there any application other than BibDesk (well, and >>> Spotlight) that allows for searching of Skim notes content? I note >>> that EagleFiler and DevonThink have some rudimentary support, but >>> neither seems to search the content of the notes. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> -AHM >> >> I use neither, but I've certainly read that EagleFiler uses their own >> importers for searching PDF, which includes Skim Notes. >> >> Christiaan >> >>> On 2009-05-12, at 10:19 AM, Bill Mohler wrote: >>> >>>> I think, from my experience, that Christiann's suggestion of adding >>>> text-tags (e.g. [xyz] ) to the text of the note is the best >>>> approach. >>>> You can add them to highlight and other "quoting" notes as well as >>>> your own notes. >>>> >>>>> On 12 May 2009, at 6:54 PM, Alex Montgomery wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Folks- >>>>>> >>>>>> I've been thinking about and discussing with some of my >>>>>> colleagues >>>>>> different workflows that involve Skim and/or BibDesk. One of them >>>>>> asked if annotations could be tagged or have any other type of >>>>>> metadata associated with them; for example, if one is going >>>>>> through >>>>>> documents looking for quotes from a particular person, each quote >>>>>> could be highlighted and tagged. Then a file (or multiple files, >>>>>> if >>>>>> doing this from BibDesk) could be searched for that particular >>>>>> tag >>>>>> separate from the content of the actual highlighting. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> No, there's no support for annotation tags possible. See the >>>>> various >>>>> closed RFEs. >>>>> >>>>>> It occurred to me that there is already some metadata associated >>>>>> with >>>>>> annotations (color, line width, etc.), so this might be an easily >>>>>> extensible property of skim notes. Or it might be a pain to >>>>>> implement, >>>>>> or impossible, or not worth it. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Impossible, as we won't diverge any more from the PDF specs. >>>>> >>>>>> Thoughts? Are there suggestions for ways this could be done >>>>>> within >>>>>> the >>>>>> existing program that I'm entirely unaware of? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> -AHM >>>>> >>>>> No, unless you count adding some text to the text associated to a >>>>> note >>>>> and using the search field. >>>>> >>>>> Christiaan >>>>> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! > Your > production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but > thanks to > Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW > KODAK i700 > Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image > processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
