On May 6, 2012, at 17:34, D.A. Fonda wrote:
> Given that apparently the command line tools cannot handle converting
> highlights
It *can* convert highlights. It just does not fill in the text.
Christiaan
> (from what I gathered, Skim needs the document open in a window to figure out
> what text is under the highlight regions) I cooked up the following
> AppleScript to fling the file corresponding to the record currently selected
> in DTPO at Skim for conversion (without saving) and dumping the notes to a
> RTF file. That RTF file is then passed through TextWrangler to scrub
> duplicate headings from highlight blocks not being contiguous. (Inelegant, I
> know, I could have used built in tools, but this whole script is an inelegant
> disaster. Sorry.)
> With that accomplished, the note file is yanked back into the same DTPO group
> in which the source file was found.
>
> If someone wanted to do this with a selected finder item instead, just rip
> out the DTPO specific parts and substitute the currently selected finder item
> in the setup at the top.
>
> Script follows.
>
>
> HTH!
>
> -Dan
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> First, here's the important bit,
> (for those who'd like to start from scratch)
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> tell application "Skim"
> open PATH-TO-YOUR-PDF
> convert notes document 1
> save document 1 in PATH-TO-TARGET-FILE as "Notes as RTF"
> close document 1 saving no
> end tell
>
> ----------------------------------
> Here's the whole thing:
> ----------------------------------
>
> set DTSK_HLNEX_ptnf to path to desktop as string
> set DTSK_HLNEX_nsfx to "-notes"
> tell application "DEVONthink Pro"
> set DTSK_HLNEX_the_doc to content record
> set DTSK_HLNEX_doc_name to name of DTSK_HLNEX_the_doc
> set DTSK_HLNEX_doc_path to path of DTSK_HLNEX_the_doc
> set DTSK_HLNEX_tgt_grp to current group
> set DTSK_HLNEX_tgt_db to root of current database
> end tell
> set DTSK_HLNEX_nfn to (DTSK_HLNEX_doc_name & DTSK_HLNEX_nsfx as string)
> set DTSK_HLNEX_OF1 to (DTSK_HLNEX_ptnf & ":" & DTSK_HLNEX_nfn as string)
> set DTSK_HLNEX_nfmt to ".rtf"
> set DTSK_HLNEX_OF1FPN to (DTSK_HLNEX_OF1 & DTSK_HLNEX_nfmt as string)
>
> tell application "Skim"
> open DTSK_HLNEX_doc_path
> convert notes document 1
> save document 1 in DTSK_HLNEX_OF1 as "Notes as RTF"
> close document 1 saving no
> end tell
>
>
> tell application "TextWrangler"
> open DTSK_HLNEX_OF1FPN
> set matchOptions to {match mode:leaving_one}
> set outputOptions to {duplicates to new document:false, deleting
> duplicates:true}
> process duplicate lines (text 1 of window 1) ¬
> duplicates options matchOptions ¬
> output options outputOptions
> save document 1
> close document 1
> end tell
>
> tell application "DEVONthink Pro"
> import DTSK_HLNEX_OF1FPN name DTSK_HLNEX_nfn to DTSK_HLNEX_tgt_grp type
> rich
> end tell
>
> tell application "Finder"
> try
> delete DTSK_HLNEX_OF1FPN
> end try
> end tell
>
> tell application "DEVONthink Pro"
> activate
> end tell
>
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