On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > On 02/17/10 09:41, "Duke Normandin" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > So I tried: > > > > defaults write -app Skim -SKPageBackgroundColor -array -float 171.0 > > -float 171.0 -float 171.0 -float 1.0 > > You need to convert your 8-bit values to floating point, so try 0.671 > (171/255).
Jimminy Cricket!! How simple is _that_!! It's all _so easy_ when someone steers you in the right direction. > > which is #ababab. No joy! I'm definitely missing a piece of the > > puzzle. Should I not be able to go to Skim's: > > > > /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/Resources/InitialUserDefaults.plist > > > > and use the "Property List Editor.app" to set the values? I did try > > that, but could not find "SKPageBackgroundColor". > > You should never edit files in an application's bundle; it will break code > signing, if nothing else. Thanks for the heads-up! I'm having one heck of a time getting familiar with the "Apple way of doing things". It seems _so_ foreign to me after having been a Unix/BSD user for so long. It's my wife's computer that I'm using for the time being ;) -- duke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
