I see. I tweaked your script. It's working perfectly. Thanks again.
Misha
On 19 Mar 2017, at 22:43, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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]> wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> On 19 Mar 2017, at 11:29, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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/).
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a relatively large database of .skim notes that I would like to
>>>>> convert into .txt or .rtf documents (so that DocFetcher 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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