On Feb 1, 2014, at 12:35, Josh Carney wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone else out there might have written a code or devised
> another method to turn spotlight comments on a PDF into an anchored note at
> the top of a document in Skim. I've written copious spotlight comments on
> PDFs I've clipped into my Devon Think database, but find that these are not
> always accessible elsewhere, so I'm wondering if there's a good way to
> automate a shift of those comments into a spot where I'll be able to see and
> work with them across a variety of platforms. (iPad, for instance.) Ideally,
> this would be something I could do as both a batch operation (for the 4000 or
> so existing PDFs I've got) and on an individual basis (as new PDFs are
> created, since the DT entry screen makes it simplest for me to put comments
> in the spotlight area).
>
> Just wondering if anyone else has already traveled this road. Thanks for any
> thoughts you might be able to offer.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Josh
I don't know about it, but it should be pretty easy to do using AppleScript.
You can get the Spotlight comment from Finder, as the comment property of the
file. And Skim lets you create a note easily. For Skim, you have to open the
file first before you can add the note.
Christiaan
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