Hi Christiaan, I tried this and both annotations appear, but both source 1 and 2's annotations 'collide' on the same pages in the merged PDF since the annotations retain the same page numbers they had when they were created in source (i.e. let's say that source 2 has highlighted text on its page 1---on the merged PDF, the highlights for this text appear on its page 1 but the text isn't in the highlights since it appears after the last page of source 1 on the merged PDF).
So I think that the solution is this: can I directly modify the Skim Note files to change the page numbers for each annotation to my liking? When I open it in a text editor, I mostly see gibberish but there are certain intelligible characters such text from my annotation and what appear to be pixel coordinates---I couldn't find page numbers though... Thanks again, -Bill ________________________________ From: Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> To: For general discussion about using Skim <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, August 10, 2010 2:13:34 AM Subject: Re: [Skim-app-users] Preserve annotations after merging two annotated PDFs? 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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