On Aug 10, 2010, at 20:08, Carl Lee wrote: > 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 >
Ah, I didn't realize that, but you're right, the page numbers for the second part won't get shifted. And no, you can't easily edit the file, it's some binary archive. I guess you'd need to write a Cocoa program to do that (you can convert it to XML using plutil, but good luck finding the actual page numbers in there). Perhaps an alternative is to export the PDFs with embedded notes, merge those, and then run File > Convert Notes… on the combined PDF. You may lose a bit of data when you have anchored notes, but most will come through OK. Christiaan > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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
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