Re: Applescript Virgin Question
Re: Applescript Virgin Question
- Subject: Re: Applescript Virgin Question
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:12:45 +0200
(sorry for being late) At 10:57 AM -0400 18/10/02, Joey Parshley wrote:
I would like to try writing my first script. Is the following
possible and would anyone like to give me any pointers? I have never
written an applescript (have written lots of javascript).
Here's what I want the script to do.
Look look in a folder that can have any number of sub folders. Each
sub folder would be named as a job number i.e 20857. These job
folders have in them identical folders named Ideas, Email, PDF etc.
I want to look in the PDF folder of each job folder and print three
copies or any PDFs with the work "FINAL" in it.
A bonus to this script would be if I could place each PDF into a
Quark Template and Print that out.
I would use Smile. (Since maybe you don't know much yet about
AppleScript, Smile is a free AppleScript editor, it supports
executing AppleScript command lines like in a shell, and it includes
a scriptable text editor).
Smile includes two significant helpers for what you're wanting to do:
- "list files", will produce the list of all the files in the folder
- Regular expressions, will allow you to parse the list in order to
retrieve something the files with "FINAL" at the end of their names
which are in some "PDF" folder.
I've never written a regular expression correctly the first time, but
it would look like:
$.*:[0-9]{5}:PDF:[^:]*FINAL
Smile includes a "Find" dialog with regular expressions, so testing
R.E. is rather easy.
URL for Smile: <
http://www.satimage-software.com/en/softx.html#smile>
I suppose that Acrobat Reader can be used to print the PDF's.
Emmanuel
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