On May 22, 2011, at 23:51, Oliver Pooley wrote: > I have a fairly large library of PDFs (just under 2000) organised by > Papers.app. A small subset of these (about 100) have been annotated with > Skim, with the annotations stored in the default manner (as extended > attributes). I don't know, however, exactly which PDFs have been annotated. > > Is there a way to search my library (e.g., via terminal or some 3rd party > app) to find out which papers have skim annotations? > > The background: The reason I wish to do this is that (i) I want to be able > to annotate and read annotations on an iPad and (ii) I want to sync my PDF > library across computers using Dropbox (which, as I understand it, only > supports some extended attributes, not including those created by Skim). I > therefore want to covert all my skim annotations into embedded notes. > > Many thanks in advance for help. > > Oliver
In a shell script you could use the "xattr" tool to see if the file has an attribute named "net_sourceforge_skim-app_notes". You could put that in an if statement. You could use the skimpdf tool in Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport to embed the notes. There have been some previous posts on this list about handling notes between Skim notes and the iPad and Dropbox, you may want to search for them. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
