Re: IPTC info
Re: IPTC info
- Subject: Re: IPTC info
- From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:43:49 -0800
On Tuesday, March 07, 2006, at 01:38PM, Gnarlodious <email@hidden> wrote:
>Entity Stockly, Ed spoke thus:
>
>> Well, this is the AppleScript users list and the question was for an
>> AppleScript solution. Personally I wouldn't know where to start with a
>> "command line wrapper around a Perl module" and I wouldn't suggest shell
>> scripts or terminal scripts or Perl modules when there's a perfectly good
>> AppleScript solution.
>
>Well, I said this:
>
>set exifToolPath to "/usr/local/bin/ExifTool"
>tell application "Finder" to set theResult to the selection as string
>set exifToolPath to exifToolPath & "/exiftool"
>set EXIF to do shell script exifToolPath & " " & quoted form of POSIX path
>of theResult as string
<snip>
And, just for everyone's sake who's a bit intimidated by this, I've got an AppleScript library that serves as a wrapper for ExifTool so the implementation details are completely masked and you can use it just like native AppleScript functions. I think this PERFECTLY exemplifies why I love AppleScript - the embracing of external tools/technologies... not an insistance that it's one way or the highway - to me this *is* the AppleScript philosophy.
If someone asked kindly I could be persuaded to share of course :)
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