On Jan 22, 2013, at 20:07, Alan Harper Lists wrote:
> If someone can address D. Stall's questions, it would also be good to get
> advice about maintaining Spotlight indexing. I have never been able to
> clearly understand which edits of a pdf are picked up by Spotlight and which
> are not. I think that flattened pdfs are searchable, but after experimenting
> with Acrobat and PDFPen (two other pdf editing programs for Macintosh), I
> found that edits that looked the same to me were differently indexed
> (PDFPen's edits were indexed, and Acrobat's were not).
>
> Thank you, if someone knows the answer.
>
> A
Spotlight of PDFs is already done by Apple. This means that attached Skim notes
are not searchable through Spotlight, because Apple does not know about that.
When exported with embedded notes (i.e. flattened), they become part of the PDF
data, and the PDF importer may pick them up, though I am not sure about that,
as Apple won't tell us how it works. Whether embedded notes are edited with
Acrobat, Preview, or some other program that embeds the notes in the PDF should
not matter, it should be the same kind of data in the end, so I have no idea
why they would give different result. As for Skim, you can get the notes
indexed if you save as pdf bundle (PDFD), or when you save the notes also
externally in a .skim file (you can have that done automatically, also handy as
a backup of your notes.)
Christiaan
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