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Re: Help required with Shell Script please...

On Mar 30, 2007, at 6:44 AM, Nick Hearn wrote:
Please can someone help me. I'm trying to get a list of the names of custom print presets from this plist file 'com.apple.print.custompresets.plist'.

You don't need a shell script. Reading the contents of a plist file is best done like this ...

-- plistAlias is an alias to the file com.apple.print.custompresets.plist
tell application "System Events"
plistAlias as text
set plistRec to (value of property list file the result)
end tell

Of course, you will also need to know the structure of the record 'plistRec' so you can experiment with it. You will need the application "Property List Editor.app" located in /Developer/ Applications/Utilities/. (Install Developer Tools, if you haven't.)

You would think that you would be able to print from "Property List Editor.app" ... you can't!
You will have to take a picture of the upper pane. (Don't even touch the Dump button.)

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