On Mar 2, 2010, at 23:05, Loai Naamani wrote: > Thanks Christiaan. Two questions: > 1) what does the link pointing to a location in a PDF look like (that you > mention, in principle)?
It does not look like anything, it's invisible. Unless of course you mean something different with "look like"? > (even if Skim can't add/read it. I'm assuming other readers would be able to > read such a link and scroll the PDF to the specified location?) Skim can read them and open them. You just can't add them in Skim. > 2) how does Spotlight open a PDF, say in Skim, while passing the search > attributes that Skim automatically displays in the 'search' field? is the > search string passed in the URL to the file? and can skim be instructed to > automatically search for this 'string' in the notes panel instead of the > contents panel (which it currently does after Spotlight opens the document in > Skim)? > Thanks again. > The search string is passed in the Apple Event sent to Skim to open the document. And you can't tell Skim to handle that differently. It also makes less sense, because Spotlight only searches the PDF, not the notes. Christiaan > > On Mar 2, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> >> On Mar 2, 2010, at 19:52, Loai Naamani wrote: >> >>> Hello there-- Can specific Skim annotations be directly linked to? That is, >>> an annotation URL that Skim would open, and scroll the PDF to that specific >>> annotation and highlight/select it in the notes list? This URL can of >>> course point to the PDF or the .skim notes file as its root. If not, is >>> there a URL format to link to specific pages in a PDF? That is, a URL that >>> any PDF reader (including Skim) would open and scroll to the specified >>> page? Thank you. >> >> No. In principle, links can point to a location in a PDF though, which is >> essentially the same thing. Skim doesn't support adding links though. >> >> Christiaan >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Skim-app-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
