Re: Applescript or bust ... ?
Re: Applescript or bust ... ?
- Subject: Re: Applescript or bust ... ?
- From: vectormation <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:21:19 -0500
Puh-leez.
Articles in tech magazines are always suggesting Macs can't be used to do
_anything_ serious (usually via simple exclusion). Don't feel a moment's
hesitation for suggesting Macs can do something better than PCs.
Also, remember the old adage to "write what you know."
~Phi
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I'm writing an article on workflow automation for a trade journal in the
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desktop publishing world. In the interest of appearing "platform agnostic"
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(despite my admitted bias for Macs and AppleScript), I need to be able to
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compare the strengths and limitations of "comparable" scripting environments
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for other platforms.
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Visual Basic and REXX for the PC world come to mind. Java's another, I
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guess. I've recorded and tinkered with VB in Word and Excel, and I know VB
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has some facility for automating the Windows OS. I've edited and employed
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other people's REXX scripts. I've never done any Java scripting. (I want to,
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but now's not the time.)
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My article is going to offer some simple examples of AS and provide a
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tutorial to get desktop publishing executives in my industry more interested
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in using it to automate their workflow. To be as balanced as possible, I
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want to spell out wherever another scripting language for a non-Apple
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platform could handle the same task. I'd hate to suggest, for example, that
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you can't automate Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, Explorer, or whatever on a
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PC and then find out that you can.
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Can anybody on this list care to exercise me of my ignorance, or steer me to
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a list where I can ask stupid questions about other automation solutions?
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WES