[Skim-app-users] Re-order pages in PDF, add pages to PDF

[Franz-Josef Knelangen]

Hi there,

is it possible to re-order pages in a PDF file or to add/remove pages to/from a PDF file?

I didn’t find a command in the UI.

If not: How do you handle this when Skim is your main PDF editor.


Cheers,

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Franz-Josef Knelangen
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[Jan David Hauck]

Skim doesn't edit the PDF itself. I'd recommend Acrobat for reordering or
adding/deleting pages, since Preview is buggy.
If you have the PDF already annotated in Skim and want to preserve the
annotations it's best to first Export the PDF with embedded annotations, do
whatever you need to do to the PDF in some other program and when you're
done, you open the PDF in Skim and Convert Notes (in the file menu) so you
get your Skimnotes back.
Hope that helps.

Post by Franz-Josef Knelangen
Hi there,
is it possible to re-order pages in a PDF file or to add/remove pages to/from a PDF file?
I didn’t find a command in the UI.
If not: How do you handle this when Skim is your main PDF editor.
Cheers,
--
Franz-Josef Knelangen
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[Christiaan Hofman]

Skim doesn't edit the PDF itself. I'd recommend Acrobat for reordering or adding/deleting pages, since Preview is buggy.
If you have the PDF already annotated in Skim and want to preserve the annotations it's best to first Export the PDF with embedded annotations, do whatever you need to do to the PDF in some other program and when you're done, you open the PDF in Skim and Convert Notes (in the file menu) so you get your Skimnotes back.
Hope that helps.

Although they will then probably be in the wrong place.

Christiaan

Hi there,
is it possible to re-order pages in a PDF file or to add/remove pages to/from a PDF file?
I didn’t find a command in the UI.
If not: How do you handle this when Skim is your main PDF editor.
Cheers,
--
Franz-Josef Knelangen
Sent with Airmail

[Jan Jakob Bornheim]

Post by Jan David Hauck
Skim doesn't edit the PDF itself. I'd recommend Acrobat for reordering or
adding/deleting pages, since Preview is buggy.
If you have the PDF already annotated in Skim and want to preserve the
annotations it's best to first Export the PDF with embedded annotations, do
whatever you need to do to the PDF in some other program and when you're
done, you open the PDF in Skim and Convert Notes (in the file menu) so you
get your Skimnotes back.
Hope that helps.
Although they will then probably be in the wrong place.
Christiaan

I give my standard answer: you can use AppleScript to try to
adjust/shift/recreate notes in the page range affected by adding or
deleting a page.

More elaborate; save the notes in a Skim file, not as embedded notes, do
your thing in Adobe, open the PDF in Skim again, import the notes from the
Skim file, and then use the AppleScript to shift the old notes a page, 2
pages, 120 pages, whatever the case may be. I can look up my script later
today. I think I only ever used it for adding or deleting pages, not
reordering, but it might get you started.

JJ

Post by Jan David Hauck
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Franz-Josef Knelangen <

Post by Franz-Josef Knelangen
Hi there,
is it possible to re-order pages in a PDF file or to add/remove pages to/from a PDF file?
I didn’t find a command in the UI.
If not: How do you handle this when Skim is your main PDF editor.
Cheers,
--
Franz-Josef Knelangen
Sent with Airmail

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[Christiaan Hofman]

There is one more way to do it. You can use the skimpdf command line tool, to extract pages and then merge them again in a different order. You won’t have a GUI to make it easy, but it does automatically move the Skim notes to the correct pages.

As for AppleScript, that would not work for markup (highlights and such).

Christiaan

Post by Christiaan Hofman

Skim doesn't edit the PDF itself. I'd recommend Acrobat for reordering or adding/deleting pages, since Preview is buggy.
If you have the PDF already annotated in Skim and want to preserve the annotations it's best to first Export the PDF with embedded annotations, do whatever you need to do to the PDF in some other program and when you're done, you open the PDF in Skim and Convert Notes (in the file menu) so you get your Skimnotes back.
Hope that helps.

Although they will then probably be in the wrong place.
Christiaan
I give my standard answer: you can use AppleScript to try to adjust/shift/recreate notes in the page range affected by adding or deleting a page.
More elaborate; save the notes in a Skim file, not as embedded notes, do your thing in Adobe, open the PDF in Skim again, import the notes from the Skim file, and then use the AppleScript to shift the old notes a page, 2 pages, 120 pages, whatever the case may be. I can look up my script later today. I think I only ever used it for adding or deleting pages, not reordering, but it might get you started.
JJ

Hi there,
is it possible to re-order pages in a PDF file or to add/remove pages to/from a PDF file?
I didn’t find a command in the UI.
If not: How do you handle this when Skim is your main PDF editor.
Cheers,
--
Franz-Josef Knelangen
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[Franz-Josef Knelangen]

Since my PDFs finally go into DevonThink, I looked there and found out that reordering and deleting is easy possible there, so I will do it in DT.

Problem was I got an article consisting in a bunch of randomly named PDF files, each containing a double page, some upside down, so I had to make a readable PDF out of them. 

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Skim doesn't edit the PDF itself.  I'd recommend Acrobat for reordering or adding/deleting pages, since Preview is buggy. 
If you have the PDF already annotated in Skim and want to preserve the annotations it's best to first Export the PDF with embedded annotations, do whatever you need to do to the PDF in some other program and when you're done, you open the PDF in Skim and Convert Notes (in the file menu) so you get your Skimnotes back. 
Hope that helps.



On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Franz-Josef Knelangen <***@knelangen.de> wrote:
Hi there,

is it possible to re-order pages in a PDF file or to add/remove pages to/from a PDF file?

I didn’t find a command in the UI.

If not: How do you handle this when Skim is your main PDF editor.


Cheers,

-- 
Franz-Josef Knelangen
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