help with scripting pdf services
help with scripting pdf services
- Subject: help with scripting pdf services
- From: Michael Cytrynowicz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 15:58:56 +0200
Hi list, sorry this is a bit longuish:
I have been pretty busy, writing away a number of scripts to help
with my data workflow - I'd like to thank again (or in some cases for
the 1st time) all that have given me suggestions (and all that have
published and list suggestions which I've ended up borrowing)
I have managed, so far to create a useful set of AS to help me store
and retrieve stuff (notes, images) in and from iView, Palm Desktop,
Acrobat, NoteTaker and Tinderbox - sometimes with a cleansing through
tex-Edit, textEdit or BBEdit. I am a happy scripter :-)
I need help, though - and I can't really figure out how to do it -
with scripting PDF Services. What I now do a lot is to print from
Safari pdf files to different folders (e.g., "mac os x" or "personal"
etc). The pdfs are a bit bloated, but they do render nicely.
What I do need, is a way to save the name of the pdf file (Safari
page title, I believe) somewhere (could be NoteTaker, or a tex-Edit
file) at the same time I save that file to a folder.
How do I go about it?
In the PDF services in my Lib folder, what i have currently are just
aliases of folders. I suspect I could possibly either
1) write (with some friendly help) a script that asks for a folder,
and then save the Safari page title to tex-Edit, or
2) maybe? attach a folder action to each of the folders, so when
something is created there, the pdf file name gets written to said
tex-Edit file.
I am encouraged enough to try and write these, but I suspect its not
that trivial (for me) - so before I do it, is there a smarter, more
obvious way of doing it?
Thanks in adv.,
Mike
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