On Mar 3, 2010, at 0:58, Loai Naamani wrote: > Thanks Christiaan. > Sorry for not being clearer. > You mention that links can point to a location in a PDF in principle. My > question is how are those links/URLs formatted or look like, so I can be able > to create links that point to a location in a PDF. Say I want a URL, when > handled by Skim or a PDF reader, to open/scroll the PDF to page 5 or to a > certain 'location'. Would it look something like file:///~/nameofpdf.pdf#5 or > something. I'm trying to find a way in which I can, upon following an > external link to a PDF, have the reader (or Skim) go to a specific > location/page/annotation in that PDF. > Thanks again.
I think you misunderstand the nature of the PDF format. It's not some kind of formatted text that you can just edit. It's a complex and interconnected format, mixing all kinds of data structures, more like programming code than text, and it's unthinkable that you can modify it by hand (try opening a PDF with e.g. TextEdit.app.) Therefore, "what it looks like" is pretty meaningless: in the resulting display, it doesn't look like anything (it's invisible), while in the PDF data it's some complex data structure that you won't be able to add yourself. Christiaan > > On Mar 2, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> >> 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. 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