Well, great. Apple thinks this change is actually not a bug, but an
improvement! Go figure. Of course I strongly disagree, but I disagree with so
much in AppleScript.
Christiaan
> On May 2, 2016, at 22:37, Samrat Roy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thank you Christiaan for the quick reply! Oh well, what can we do, sometimes
> we get stuck with shitty code. Thanks again for your reply, and hope Apple
> fixes this in the future. :)
>
> Regards,
> Sam.
>
> On Mon, 2 May 2016 at 21:31 Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>> On May 2, 2016, at 21:01, Samrat Roy <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> First let me say that Skim is an great PDF annotating tool. Kudos to
>> Christiaan for making this for us.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I have an issue and was hoping someone may have a solution
>> for me. Currently, I have a PDF where certain highlights cross the page
>> bounds. I made use of the Applescript examples on the Wiki to write a script
>> to merge highlights ( also boxes ) across multiple pages, but I keep on
>> getting an error,
>>
>> can get characters X thru Y from page Z on .....
>>
>> when I attempt to create a new note using
>>
>> make new note with properties (type:highlight note,
>> selection:noteSelection)
>>
>> where the variable noteSelection was assigned the value
>> set noteSelection to join noteSelection to selection of vNote.
>>
>> Could someone please tell me how I can achieve this ?
>> Also, is it possible to merge Highlights, Boxes together ?
>> Thank you for you help and time.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sam
>>
>
> This is really annoying. This should work, and it certainly did work in the
> past. Unfortunately Apple has broken it again. The problem is that
> AppleScript has a bug with range specifiers (which we use for selections),
> and they refuse to fix this for as long as I know, and in fact that make the
> bug more serious over time. We try to work around it, but apparently this
> workaround does not work for the “make” command. There is, unfortunately, no
> way we can fix this. And therefore no other way to do it. Best we can hope is
> that Apple fixes this, but I have little hope.
>
> BTW, no, you can’t merge different note types, that would not even make sense.
>
> Christiaan
>
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