Before merging, export the skim notes for the two files to separate files (File > Export…). After merging, read them in (File > Read Notes…), make sure you uncheck "Replace existing notes" the second time).
Christiaan On Aug 10, 2010, at 9:04, Carl Lee wrote: > Hi everyone (developers too?), > > I have two Skim-annotated PDFs (sources 1 and 2) which I want to merge into > one PDF in that order (I use CombinePDFs to do the merging since Skim cannot > do this for me). Problem is, when I do this, the annotations for both source > PDFs are gone in the merged PDF. > > Q: Is there a way to *keep* the annotations after merging? > > If there is no elegant solution, here's a kludge that I hope to carry to > completion: > I have made some progress in that I *can* extract my annotations when I > export as "Skim Notes" and save them onto the merged PDF by using "File > > Read Notes...", but the page numbers for my annotations in the merged PDF are > the same as they were in source---so that source 2 annotations are not in the > correct location in the merged PDF. What I want to do is "shift" ALL the > page numbers of source 2's annotations by an integer of my choosing (i.e. so > that they correctly correspond to the "new" page numbers where source 2 > resides in the merged PDF) > > Please let me know if you have any ideas to make this work---this would be > great as I often find myself OCR scanning books one chapter at a time just so > I can annotate them in Skim! > > Thanks! > > -Bill
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