On May 30, 2015, at 21:21, Fran Calcraft wrote: > Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> >> On May 28, 2015, at 20:02, Fran Calcraft wrote: >> >>> The instructions in the Skim Wiki for changing the page background >>> colour do not make much sense to me. This is the instruction: >>> >>> Key : SKPageBackgroundColor >>> Values : -data, archived color, or an -array of -float >>> Explanation : Set this to change the default white background color of >>> pages. This can be an array of one to four floats between 0 and 1, or >>> data for an archived color. >>> >>> I got everything entered into the Terminal for the setting, but using a >>> hexadecimal code for the background colour value did not do anything. >>> Presumably I misunderstood the meaning? What is an "archived color" anyway? >>> >>> The colour I want for the background is #FFFF88. Is there any way to >>> get that? I did not use the "#" in front of the hex digits, since >>> Terminal treated that as an error. >> >> >> An archived color is a a raw data representation of the AppKit color. But >> you would never be able to guess what this should be (you could perhaps copy >> it form some other value.) >> >> Easiest is to use an array of floats, in your case -array -float 1 -float 1 >> -float 0.53333. You can also use AppleScript to set the page background >> color, then you can choose one using a color panel. >> >> Christiaan >> > I tried the code that you gave me, but it did not do anything. A loaded > document still had a white background. What I used was: > > defaults write net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim SKPageBackgroundColor -array > -float 1 -float 1 -float 0.53333 >
That does work for me. Are you sure you did this when Skim was not running? > I have no idea how to use Applescript. How do you specify the application it > is to control? How is the background colour for all documents to be opened > by that application controlled? The help I was able to find assumes some > knowledge of Applescript to begin with, and I have none. This sample script (open in AppleScript Editor.app) does it: tell application "Skim" set page background color to (choose color) end tell Christiaan
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