Yes, that does seem the problem.
Adding some delay after converting helps.
Your workaround gave me an error though:
"Can’t make sheets of window id 8402 into type specifier."
Jan David Hauck, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles
http://ucla.academia.edu/hauck
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On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I already know what your problem is. The one thing that has changed in the
> last release is that notes conversion now works asynchronously. Therefore
> the convert notes command returns before the actual conversion has taken
> place. Perhaps I should modify the command a bit to allow running it
> synchronously.
>
> For now you could try to wait in the script while Skim is converting. I
> think adding the following lines after the command may do that (i did not
> test this; you may reduce the time steps):
>
> set theWindow to first window where its document is theDocument
> delay 1
> repeat while count of sheets of theWindow > 0
> delay 1
> end repeat
>
> Christiaan
>
>
> On 28 Jan 2018, at 19:12, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The convert notes AppleScript command does work for me. And nothing
> really changed. Are you sure the file does have these types of notes?
>
> The highlightNote should be a list, I think, and it looks rather
> convoluted. Also did you set the myFile and skimNotes variables properly?
>
> Does the Convert Note action work in the app?
>
> Christiaan
>
> On 28 Jan 2018, at 18:37, Jan David Hauck <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I didn't provide the full script, but I do set numberOfNotes.
> This is the full script. It had been working flawlessly before.
>
>
> tell application "Skim"
> launch
> open myFile
> set theDocument to document 1
> convert notes theDocument
> set noteTypeStrings to {"Box", "Underline", "Freehand"} set noteTypes to
> {} repeat with noteTypeString in noteTypeStrings set noteTypeString to
> contents of noteTypeString else if noteTypeString is "Box" then set end of
> noteTypes to box note else if noteTypeString is "Underline" then set end of
> noteTypes to underline note else if noteTypeString is "Freehand" then set
> end of noteTypes to freehand note end if end repeat set highlightNote to
> highlight note set lineNote to noteTypes set highlightColor to {63798,
> 59381, 37996} -- New Yellow set linesColor to {45073, 3851, 6345} -- Dark
> Red set numberOfNotes to 0 tell contents of theDocument repeat with aNote
> in (get notes) set aNote to contents of aNote set theType to get type of
> aNote if highlightNote contains theType then set color of aNote to
> highlightColor set numberOfNotes to numberOfNotes + 1 else if lineNote
> contains theType then set color of aNote to linesColor set numberOfNotes to
> numberOfNotes + 1 end if end repeat end tell
>
> if numberOfNotes = 0 then
> close theDocument saving no
> else
> save theDocument in skimNotes as "Skim Notes"
> close theDocument saving no
> end if
> end tell
>
>
> Jan David Hauck, Ph.D.
> Lecturer
> Department of Anthropology
> University of California, Los Angeles
> http://ucla.academia.edu/hauck
> http://www.anthro.ucla.edu/content/jan-david-hauck
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 1:06 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> You never seem to assign the numberOfNotes variable in your script.
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>
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