2011/03/24

How to reveal the front Skim PDF document in Finder and in DEVONthink

You can use the following AppleScript to reveal the front Skim PDF document in Finder:

tell application "Skim"
    set FilePath to get the file of front document
    tell application "Finder"
        activate
        reveal FilePath
    end tell
end tell
You can use the following AppleScript to reveal the front Skim PDF document in DEVONthink:

tell application "Skim"
    set the xDEVONthinkLink to (get text for note 4 of document 1) as string
    set customUUID to text 21 thru -8 of xDEVONthinkLink as string
end tell

tell application "DEVONthink Pro"
    activate
    tell database "MySources"
        set myPDF to get record with uuid customUUID
        open tab for record myPDF
        tell application "System Events"
            tell process "DEVONthink Pro" to click menu item "Reveal" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Data" of menu bar 1
        end tell
    end tell
    close document window 1
end tell
In order for the last AppleScript to work properly, you need to have the DEVONthink URL in the fourth Skim note of the first page of the PDF in the following form:

x-devonthink-item://648847AF-4714-4328-916C-6169A6389124?page=0

In my post "How to put DevonThink links in Skim note" I describe how this can be done automatically. 

Moreover you need to adjust appropriately the name of the DEVONthink database  in the line:
    tell database "MySources" 

1 comment:

Dan Sheffler said...

Thanks for this script and keep up the very interesting blog. I've been needing a Skim script just like the first.