PDF to PDF Bundle

Summary: Converts the selected PDF files to Skim PDF Bundles.
Requires: EagleFiler, Skim
Install Location: ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/EagleFiler/

Description

This script converts the selected PDF files into .pdfd bundles that can be annotated using Skim.

Note: If you plan to use the Rename for Dropbox/Windows script, do that before running this script. This will ensure that the files inside the PDFD package are also renamed for Dropbox/Windows.

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Script

on run
    tell application "EagleFiler"
        set _selection to selected records of browser window 1
        repeat with _record in _selection
            if _record's kind is "PDF" then
                my convertRecordToPDFD(_record)
            end if
        end repeat
    end tell
end run

on convertRecordToPDFD(_record)
    tell application "EagleFiler"
        set _newName to my pdfdNameForRecord(_record)
        set _newFile to my convertFileToPDFD(_record's file, _newName)
        set _newRecords to import files {_newFile} with deleting afterwards
        set _newRecord to item 1 of _newRecords
        my copyMetadata(_record, _newRecord)
        set _trash to trash of _record's library document
        set _record's container to _trash
    end tell
end convertRecordToPDFD

on convertFileToPDFD(_source, _destName)
    tell application "Skim"
        open _source
        set _tempFolder to do shell script "mktemp -d -t 'EFPDFToPDFD'"
        set _dest to _tempFolder & "/" & _destName
        save document 1 as "PDF Bundle" in _dest
        close document 1
        return _dest
    end tell
end convertFileToPDFD

on pdfdNameForRecord(_record)
    tell application "EagleFiler"
        set _name to _record's filename
        if _name ends with ".pdf" then
            set _end to (length of ".pdf") + 1
            set _base to characters 1 thru -_end of _name
        else
            set _base to _name
        end if
        return _base & ".pdfd"
    end tell
end pdfdNameForRecord

on copyMetadata(_source, _dest)
    tell application "EagleFiler"
        set source URL of _dest to _source's source URL
        set container of _dest to _source's container
        set note text of _dest to _source's note text
        set _tags to _source's assigned tags
        set assigned tags of _dest to _tags
        set title of _dest to _source's title
        set from name of _dest to _source's from name
        set label index of _dest to _source's label index
        set creation date of _dest to _source's creation date
        set modification date of _dest to _source's modification date
        set added date of _dest to _source's added date
    end tell
end copyMetadata

Last Modified: 2011-06-09

Running the Script

You can use AppleScript Editor (AppleScript Utility prior to Mac OS X 10.6) to enable Mac OS X’s built-in Script menu. To run the script, just select it from the menu. FastScripts provides a similar menu that supports keyboard shortcuts and other features.