On Feb 17, 2010, at 17:19, Duke Normandin wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 17, 2010, at 16:09, Duke Normandin wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>>
>>>> The Skim development teams is pleased to announce that Skim 1.3.4 is
>>>> available for download at <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/> or
>>>> using the built-in updater.
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> * New hidden preference for page background color.
>>>
>>> Thank you so much! There's _a lot_ of folks who will want to kiss your
>>> feet for that act of kindness.
>>>
>>> And so I tried:
>>>
>>> defaults write -app Skim -SKPageBackgroundColor -data ababab
>>>
>>> My system didn't puke an error message, but the color didn't change,
>>> so I'm sending the wrong arguments. Would you give an example of the
>>> proper syntax and allowed values for "color"? TIA...
>>> --
>>> duke
>>
>
>> The data is an archived NSColor object, so it's not something you
>> can ever guess, the only way I can ever think of setting it is
>> copying the data from some other preference containing a color. But
>> you can also set it as an array of 1-4 floats (as it says on the
>> Wiki), for instance
>
>> defaults write -app Skim -SKPageBackgroundColor -array -float 1.0 -float 1.0
>> -float 1.0 -float 1.0
>
> What do the floating-point integers stand for? 1st two for fg color;
> last 2 for bg color? I'm used to writing RGB color codes as hex
> triplets like #ababab, so the 4 float thing is not obvious to me.
>
>> And moreover you can set it using AppleScript.
>
> Don't know AppleScript; would know where to begin or how to use
> it. The "defaults" way seems the best.
> --
> duke
Just write the following in AppleScript Editor.app and hit Run:
tell application "Skim"
set theColor to choose color
set page background color to theColor
end tell
Christiaan
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