Skim - Difficutly counting words less than 7 points filled with white

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#1

Hello all,
I am using an application called “Skim”, which analyzes a PDF. My end goal is to get a count of all words less than 7 points that are filled with white, without repeating through a list of words.

This snippet does not work:

tell application "Skim"
	set myColor to "65535654246521765535"
	set myCount to count of (words of text of front document whose size is less than 7 and color is "65535654246521765535")
end tell

it returns the following error:
error “Skim got an error: Can’t make "65535654246521765535" into type RGBA color.” number -1700 from “65535654246521765535” to RGBA color

However,
I can use a separate script to get a color of a specific word. For example:

tell application "Skim"
	set my2ndWordColor to color of word 2 of text of front document as string
end tell

Will return: “65535654246521765535”

if my2ndWordColor is not set to string, then the result would be {65535, 65424, 65217, 65535}

Likewise, I can use a separate script to determine how many words are less than 7 points:

tell application "Skim"
	set myCount to count (words of text of front document whose size is less than 7)
end tell

will return: 3

Therefore, I have seen some crazy one liners from this group and was hoping there was a way to count each word that is both less than 7 in size and whose color (as string) is “65535654246521765535”

I know it’s a stretch, but I figured I would ask just in case somebody is up for the challenge to help?

#2

The color property is an RGB color in Skim.app, not a string. You must understand that the comparison only makes sense for things of the same type. So compare color with an RGB color, that is, with {65535, 65424, 65217, 65535}, and not with the string “65535654246521765535”. Whose command compares when filtering.


tell application "Skim"
	set myCount to count of (words of text of front document whose size is less than 7 and color is {65535, 65424, 65217, 65535})
end tell
#4

Thank you both VERY MUCH! Very helpful information that I was lacking and definitely needed to know.