Re: iWork Pages
Re: iWork Pages
- Subject: Re: iWork Pages
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:16:22 -0600
On 1/21/05 4:07 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Just installed iWork.
>> Keynote 2 is AppleScriptable.
>
> In a manner of speaking. All you can do is run a slide show, pausing and
> starting. 'slide' exists as a class but has no properties. I'm not sure if
> I'd really call that AppleScriptable, would you?
>
>> The new Pages application is not.
>
>> It doesn't show up in Script Editor's "Open Dictionary" window, and
>> when I drag the application onto the Script Editor dock icon, I get
>> the dialog box:
>> "Unable to read the dictionary of the application or extension because
>> it is not scriptable."
>
> Are you surprised?
As Sal was saying during his Automator Demos at Macworld.."If you want
professional scriptable applications, buy Microsoft's stuff".
Watching the Apple people cringe was priceless. Oh well, it's not like I
need either, and I don't see any reason to pay Apple for non-scriptable
applications, especially when with a good chunk of them, the Uis are SO
custom that you can't even use UI scripting. It's like the dev team PLANS to
make them as unautomatable as possible. Sometimes I think they get offended
that you would use the app in a fashion they didn't approve of ahead of
time.
Whatever. I'm very happy with the Automator SDK, and am working on some
stuff for Powerpoint and other scriptable applications. If Apple wants to
ignore their own technology, I'll vote with my checkbook. Besides, the Word
export in pages is tedious in the extreme, so it's not like I'm missing
anything.
--
Now that you¹ve climbed up there, it¹s a lot higher than it looks, isn¹t it?
Dumbass.
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