Re: Re; Keynote, is it scriptable (XML?)
Re: Re; Keynote, is it scriptable (XML?)
- Subject: Re: Re; Keynote, is it scriptable (XML?)
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 22:48:00 -0800
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Well, Apple's .plist files start with a preamble like (there's a "little
bit" of line wrap...the second and third lines as the message likely
arrives go together)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"
http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
The URL in there leads to a file with "everything you need to know." Oh,
wait, I learned that in kindergarten. A few books on XML will help. ;-)
Personally, I would use Python, not AppleScript, to play about changing a
Keynote document this way. But that doesn't mean everyone should.
--John
At 9:27 -0500 1/9/2003, Paul Gobble wrote:
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Will Apple publish the XML tags for Keynote documents, or do you just
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dissect Keynote generated documents?
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-Paul
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> Short answer:
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> You don't script Keynote, you script changes to its files, which are
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> easy
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> to change because of the XML (structured text) form.
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> (You could "script" Excel that way, but its files are "a little
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> harder" and
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> the reverse engineering would violate the license unless a court
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> decided it
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> didn't.)
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> --John
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> --
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> John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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