Re: Applescript and VBA
Re: Applescript and VBA
- Subject: Re: Applescript and VBA
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:05:01 -0800
On 1/6/02 3:06 PM, "Eric Schult" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I know comparisons between Applescript and Visual Basic for Applications are
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apt to push a few buttons on this list, but I'm writing a workflow
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automation article for a trade magazine and I can't really leave out VBA. Is
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there anybody on this list who does some of both and is willing to help me
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with background, off-list?
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I'm specifically interested in folks who have used VBA to script InDesign or
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Illustrator, and can compare the task to doing the same with AS. Also, I'm
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interested in finding out which apps used in Desktop Publishing are
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scriptable with VBA. Quark? I think not, but are they working on it, does
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anyone know?
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There are newsgroups with wonderful VBA experts on the Microsoft news Server
msnews.microsoft.com
There are all sots of subspecialties: e.g.
microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion
microsoft.public.vb.ole
microsoft.public.word.vba.customization
etc. etc. You'll find that it's mostly Microsoft products and programs built
on them (add-ins) that use VBA. But some other programs could be scripted
via REALBasic, which is not all that different to VBA, including Mac
programs. There must be mailing lists for REALBasic.
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Paul Berkowitz