Apple

Searching heavily in Google, it seems that I got it :

on decode_URL(txt)

return do shell script "/usr/bin/python -c " & ¬

quoted form of "import sys, urllib; print urllib.unquote(sys.argv[1])" & space & ¬

quoted form of txt

end decode_URL

set theURL to "file://localhost/Users/yvankoenig/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Desktop/Hȁussermȃn.pdf"

decode_URL(theURL)

I found also urllib2 but I don't understand the difference and this alternate code :

on decode_URL(txt)

return do shell script "/usr/bin/python -c " & ¬

quoted form of "import sys, urllib2; print urllib2.unquote(sys.argv[1])" & space & ¬

quoted form of txt

end decode_URL

set theURL to "file://localhost/Users/yvankoenig/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Desktop/Hȁussermȃn.pdf"

decode_URL(theURL)

behave the same way.

Both return :

So, my original script is now :

activate application "Preview"

tell application "System Events" to tell application process "Preview"

title of every window

--> {"Hȁussermȃn.pdf (page 1 sur 3)"}

set theURL to value of attribute "AXDocument" of window 1

Leaves theURL undefined if the document was never saved before.

If the doc was saved once, returns something like

end tell

try

decode_URL(POSIX file theURL as text)

--> "Macintosh HD:Users:yvankoenig:Desktop:Hȁussermȃn.pdf"

on error

"never saved"

end try

on decode_URL(txt)

return do shell script "/usr/bin/python -c " & ¬

quoted form of "import sys, urllib; print urllib.unquote(sys.argv[1])" & space & ¬

quoted form of txt

end decode_URL

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 12 février 2012 22:09:58