On May 6, 2012, at 3:37, D.A. Fonda wrote:
> Hello. For an academic project I have underway, I'm trying to write a short
> script that can be triggered by a folder action, such that the PDFs in the
> directory have their annotations (mostly highlights) converted to Skim, and
> then exported. This works fine done one at a time through the menus in the
> application. I've added the path to the SharedSupport binaries to my bash
> path, and this seems like it should work, run from within the target directory
>
> find ./*pdf -exec skimpdf unembed {} {}-out.pdf \;
> find ./*out.pdf -exec skimnotes get -format rtf {} {}-notes.rtf \;
>
> But the files I get look like this:
>
> * Highlight, page 1
>
> * Highlight, page 2
>
> * Highlight, page 2
>
> * Highlight, page 2
>
> * Highlight, page 4
>
> * Highlight, page 4
>
>
> All the actual text is dropped. This doesn't happen when I do both steps
> manually in the application, or just when I do the first step in the
> application (File>Convert) and then run the second command shown above. Thus:
>
> • Highlight, page 2
> is impossible, and they advocate for the wholesale dismantling of the concept
> of anonymization. 5 In its place,
>
> • Highlight, page 2
> privacy advocates recommend that research data should be regulated under the
> strong property and autonomy
>
> • Highlight, page 2
> models of privacy favored by Lawrence Lessig, Jerry Kang, Paul Schwartz, and
> other scholars. 6
>
>
>
> (I can deal with the duplicate header lines using various other utilities on
> the end of the action.)
>
> Am I using the wrong command for the first step?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Dan
>
> --
> -Dan F
> [email protected]
>
> Sent with Sparrow
This is indeed how it works. The command line command does not set a highlight
note's text to the text from the PDF, because it does not have access to the
PDF.
Christiaan
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