Thanks for looking into this. Alas, I still get: error "Skim got an error: Some
parameter is missing for find text." number -1701
> On 7 12 2014, at 18:13, Jan Jakob Bornheim <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 7 Dec, 2014, at 14:22, Hans LIST <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to create a simple script to find the text that is copied to the
>> Clipboard in a PDF that is opened in Skim.
>>
>> This is my attempt, but it doesn't work:
>>
>> tell application "Skim"
>> set FindText to (the clipboard as text)
>>
>> tell document 1
>> find text clipboard
>> end tell
>> end tell
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Hans
>
> This works in principle:
>
> tell application "Skim"
> set FindText to (the clipboard as text)
>
> tell document 1
> find text FindText
> end tell
>
> end tell
>
> (I verified the syntax by looking at Skim’s AppleScript dictionary).
>
> It seems to return the matching characters of the first match in the
> document. So for instance it returns:
>
> characters 172 thru 174 of text of page 1 of document "Gretton1996.pdf”
>
> If you want to go to the match you can do
>
> tell application "Skim"
> set FindText to (the clipboard as text)
>
> tell document 1
> set theFoundText to find text FindText
> go to theFoundText
> end tell
>
> end tell
>
> Cheers,
> Jan Jakob
>
>
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