On May 8, 2015, at 19:32, Rob MacLeod wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks guys for the rapid and licid response. I will continue to experiment
> to find a workflow that allows me to take advantage of the benefits without
> the mishaps.
>
> Is there a quick, keyboard approach to exporting the pdf with markup? I
> could probably even handle an AppleScript type solution and bulk convert a
> whole directory full of marked up assignments for my classes.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
There is no built in shortcut. But you can use AppleScript, and even assign a
shortcut to that. You can also use the command line to embed notes in a PDF on
file (without using the Skim program itself), that may also be useful for batch
conversion. You may have a look at the Wiki for some hints and script.
Christiaan
>
> On May 8, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Jan Jakob Bornheim <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On May 8, 2015, at 15:12, Rob MacLeod wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have used Skim off and on for some years, just updated to the new
>>> version, and appreciate a great deal of what the program offers. I drift
>>> back to Preview at times but then get frustrated again with each new
>>> version and return to Skim for a while. This relationship is a little like
>>> serial monogamy and I am trying to figure out why I cannot commit to Skim
>>> as my lifelong partner (-:
>>>
>>> The main reason I leave Skim is the clumsy file management it requires and
>>> so I thought I would bring this up, perhaps as a topic long since discussed
>>> and put to bed. So please point me at the answers, if they exist somewhere
>>> on this list or the help pages.
>>>
>>> The clumsy part, of course, is the need to export the file each time I wish
>>> to save a version I can read with another pdf reader or send to another
>>> person. I use pdf markup for all my grading, much of the markup of papers
>>> and grants I collaborate on, and most anything else students or colleagues
>>> send to me for comment. So I guess I am a power user or at least a
>>> committed user of pdf markup tools. I have to share the results of those
>>> edits with others and most others do not use Skim--and I am not likely to
>>> change this behavior. As a result of need to share, I need to save
>>> conventional pdf files with the markup embedded and visible. Skim makes
>>> this harder to do that I would like and I wonder why the Skim designers
>>> figured their convention was useful. Why take a portable document format
>>> and make is non-portable?
>>>
>>> I try to be very careful about my workflow, saving the file each time
>>> through the export path, then ignoring the complaints from SKim when I
>>> close the file. But I have slipped up and I have lost edits and I have
>>> sent out strangely unmarked files to my students. I really should not have
>>> to worry about this. Why is the default not to save files with embedded
>>> markup? Can I change the default somehow to make it save standard pdf
>>> files?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any guidance and counseling I might need to get over
>>> my hump with Skim and finally make it the tool I use all the time.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
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