> On 19 Mar 2017, at 03:03, Misha Velthuis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Not sure if this is the right way to ask this, but I have a question about
> the skimnotes tool (http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/wiki/SkimNotes_Tool/
> <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/wiki/SkimNotes_Tool/>).
>
> I have a relatively large database of .skim notes that I would like to
> convert into .txt or .rtf documents (so that DocFetcher
> <http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html> can find them).
>
> Today I found out about the skimnotes tool and it works great, the only
> problem is that it only seems to work on single files.
>
> When there is only one .pdf file in the active directory (Mac terminal), and
> I run the command: "./skimnotes get -format rtf example.pdf", or when I run
> "./skimnotes get -format rtf *.pdf" I get an .rtf file with the notes of that
> pdf in the same directory. This works perfectly fine.
>
> But when I have two pdf's or more in that directory, and I run the command
> "./skimnotes get -format rtf *.pdf" or "./skimnotes get -format rtf $(find
> *.pdf)" I do not get any .rtf file, and instead, one of the pdf's is greatly
> reduced in size and has become un-openable.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug in the tool?
>
> Is there any easy way to convert a large number of .skim notes into .rtf or
> .txt files? Am I on the right track?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance! And thanks for working on this great software!
>
> Best,
>
> Misha
The skimnotes tool works on single files only. A second file is interpreted as
the output file (run skimnotes help), so it won’t be a PDF file (even if you
give it a PDF extension).
So you should run the skimnotes tool in a loop instead, for instance by using
it in the command passed in a find command. There are two scripts running
skimnotes on a list of files on the Wiki. Though they run slightly different
commands from what you want, you could easily adapt them. The skimbulk script
should come closest to what you want (it gets notes in .skim format rather than
.txt or .rtf).
Christiaan
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