Re: AppleScript seems to be Unique...
Re: AppleScript seems to be Unique...
- Subject: Re: AppleScript seems to be Unique...
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 16:19:28 +1000
On 2/8/01 2:12 PM +1000, Jon Pugh, email@hidden, wrote:
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Sue Dumont, of the original AppleScript team, and Andy Bachorski, formerly of
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Apple DTS and who is lurking here in plain sight, are both currently employed
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by Adobe as part of a core technology scripting group. They're working toward
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the dream goal of making all Adobe applications be completely scriptable.
A noble team on a noble mission. But in the meantime, scripting in one Adobe
product -- Acrobat -- has recently taken several steps backwards. So our
cheering is, I think, justifiably tempered.
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Of course, since we can't announce any unannounced things here
But Adobe doesn't even seem able to announce the announced. As far as I can
see, the scriptability of Illustrator 9 has never been mentioned in _any_
promotional material. Is this some new kind of stealth marketing? Very
strange...
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we can't say what
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they might or might not be doing, but let's just say that the peerless
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Illustrator scripting mentioned earlier had their hands in it, as did Mr.
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Script Debugger himself, Mark Alldritt.
So what were they doing laying hands on Mark? ;-)
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden