> On 19 Mar 2017, at 11:29, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 19 Mar 2017, at 03:03, Misha Velthuis <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[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
BTW, here is a quick and dirty way to do it (skimbulk essentially does
something like this, but neater and safer)
find DIR -type f -name "*.pdf" -exec
/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/skimnotes get -format rtf "{}" ";"
Christiaan
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