Hi Kim, I will try this but my guess is that it will run into the same problems as before since I might have to somehow edit the annotations to get them to show on the correct page numbers in the merged PDF.
When I come around to it I will follow up with my results. Thanks Kim for the suggestion. -Bill ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: For general discussion about using Skim <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, August 10, 2010 6:30:24 AM Subject: Re: [Skim-app-users] Preserve annotations after merging two annotated PDFs? An "external" solution, if you open Automator and select the pdf-functions, you can make an .app where you can drag pdf's and have them combined. (haven't tried it myself, but read the description of the function pdf/combine) Best regards Kim DK Den 10/08/2010 kl. 11.13 skrev Christiaan Hofman: 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 >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >This SF.net email is sponsored by > >Make an app they can't live without >Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge >http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ >Skim-app-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > ____________________ Kim Holst Østergade 2 4171 Glumsø Tlf. 5764-5774 www.kimholst.dk
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