Someone on another list said the latest Dropbox build supports EAs on Mac. I haven't tried it. Cheers, Rhet
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Jeremy Dolan <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy all. I've begun to use the Dropbox file synchronization service > recently. Unfortunately, it, like everything else in this world, doesn't > synchronize file EAs. So no skim notes by default get copied between home > and the office. > > So a few question. 1) I've set Skim to "automatically save a skim notes > backup when saving" at both locations. Seemed to work fine, but I've now > discovered that Skim will only load these notes if the file itself has none > in the extended attributes. So for files that I've edited from both places, > they now only read in the locally embedded EA copy of the notes, even if the > .skim notes backup is more recent. Sure, I can, every time I open a PDF, do > File>Read Notes, but that's tedious and, way more importantly, I'm bound to > forget on many occasions, which would cause serious data loss, when I later > save and overwrite the .skim file from another location. What can I do?! Is > there a way to disable EA saving entirely? > > 2) Relatedly, because of all these hijinks dealing with syncing and EA, I > really want to locate all of the files which I have that contain embedded > Skim EAs, so that proper attention and care may be payed to them, backups > can be exported, etc. I seem to recall some terminal command to find EAs, or > a particular type--presumably y'all know it? > > Oh, and finally, as long as I'm writing, I've wondered about this for a long > time. 3) Is it possible to inverse-crop a PDF's page size? Suppose I have a > journal article on 6x9 paper size, and want to enlarge it to 8.5x11 so that > there are larger margins which I can write on with text notes. Can Skim, or > some other (free) tool do this? > > Cheers, thanks for any help everyone! > Jeremy > > PS: Shameless plug, but if you're not familiar with Dropbox and you ever > work from two places, I can't recommended it highly enough. It is now tied > with Skim as the most essential piece of software I use. Free storage up to > 2 GB, and, (here's the plug) if you sign up through this link, we both get > an extra 250MB. https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTQ3NzQxMDg5 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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
