> On 19 Mar 2017, at 18:31, Misha Velthuis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot for the quick response! Both solutions work great.
>
> Why are you saying that your script is safer? Is it because if provides more
> output, and thus more info when something goes wrong?
>
> Thanks again for sharing all of this. It's making my day!
>
> Misha
>
Because it does some more sanity checks, and also has some extra options.
Christiaan
>
> On 19 Mar 2017, at 11:55, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> On 19 Mar 2017, at 11:29, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[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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