Re: Getting Returned Properties to the Clipboard or a Text Log
Re: Getting Returned Properties to the Clipboard or a Text Log
- Subject: Re: Getting Returned Properties to the Clipboard or a Text Log
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:22:43 -0700
Thanks, Ed. That's very cool.
-Rick
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On 8/16/07 at 12:19 PM -0700, Stockly, Ed wrote in a message entitled
"Re: Getting Returned Properties to the Clipboard or a Text ":
>Rick,
>
>Here is a quick and dirty (very dirty) way to get that:
>tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
> try
> set vSelection to object reference of selection of active document
> on error
> display dialog "Could not get selection of active document." buttons
>{"OK"} default button "OK"
> return
> end try
>tell vSelection
> set vPropList to get properties
> try
> set errorTrigger to load script vPropList
> on error vPropList
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "{"
> set vPropList to every text item of vPropList
> set vPropList to the rest of vPropList as string
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "}"
> set vPropList to text items 1 thru -2 of vPropList
> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "}" & return
> set propertyText to vPropList as string
> end try
> end tell
>end tell
>return propertyText
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RICK GORDON
EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING
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WWW: http://www.shelterpub.com
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