Applescript or bust ... ?
Applescript or bust ... ?
- Subject: Applescript or bust ... ?
- From: Eric Schult <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 10:23:50 -0600
I'm writing an article on workflow automation for a trade journal in the
desktop publishing world. In the interest of appearing "platform agnostic"
(despite my admitted bias for Macs and AppleScript), I need to be able to
compare the strengths and limitations of "comparable" scripting environments
for other platforms.
Visual Basic and REXX for the PC world come to mind. Java's another, I
guess. I've recorded and tinkered with VB in Word and Excel, and I know VB
has some facility for automating the Windows OS. I've edited and employed
other people's REXX scripts. I've never done any Java scripting. (I want to,
but now's not the time.)
My article is going to offer some simple examples of AS and provide a
tutorial to get desktop publishing executives in my industry more interested
in using it to automate their workflow. To be as balanced as possible, I
want to spell out wherever another scripting language for a non-Apple
platform could handle the same task. I'd hate to suggest, for example, that
you can't automate Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, Explorer, or whatever on a
PC and then find out that you can.
Can anybody on this list care to exercise me of my ignorance, or steer me to
a list where I can ask stupid questions about other automation solutions?
WES