On Jun 18, 2010, at 13:17, Charles Turner wrote: > On Jun 18, 2010, at 6:50 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> This has nothing to do with PDFKit or Skim. This is because Preview and >> Acrobat don't set any text for the highlights. > > Fair enough. > >> You probably don't realize that the text of the note is not the same thing >> as the text in the PDF that gets highlighted (just double click the >> highlight in Skim and you'll see.) > > I'm having trouble understanding your comment, but I do see that, say from > Applescript's POV, that the "selection" of a note and the "text" of a note > are two different things.
1. "text of the note": some arbitrary text content of the note itself, you see it in the table and when you double-click. 2. "text in the PDF that gets highlighted": the text IN THE PDF that happens to be below the highlight, the note has no knowledge about this whatsoever, any relation is a visual illusion (I really mean that as factual, I'm not being smarmy). These two texts are very different things, and don't need to be equal. > >> Skim sets the initial text of the highlight to the (cleaned) highlighted >> text, other programs generally don't do that. > > Hmm.. When I open a PDF highlighted in Preview and invoke the Skim menu > "Convert Notes...", I get my highlights in the Notes Pane, but they're all > empty of text. Should this not be happening? Again, because they ARE empty, as Preview/Acrobat does not set them. When I say that Skim sets the text I mean when you create the highlight in Skim. Christiaan > > Thanks for the response! > > Charles > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
