Re: Create a 1 pdf of assets not using an app first
Re: Create a 1 pdf of assets not using an app first
- Subject: Re: Create a 1 pdf of assets not using an app first
- From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 10:51:39 +0200
Or, for that matter, you can use Smile's Graphic Library, that's already written for Applescript.
Documentation:
http://www.satimage.fr/software/en/dictionaries/dict_smilegl.html
Emmanuel
On May 6, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Vincent Angeloni M.D. wrote:
> You will need a little external help for Applescript to coordinate this.
> Use something like Image Events or Imagine Photo (http://www.yvs.eu.com/imaginephoto.html) to resize the
> images, if necessary.
>
> For the PDF part, my suggestion will involve a bit of a learning curve because it involves learning some Ruby, but hey, you're the one who
> wants "free". Download Prawn, a RubyGem for creating PDF files -- it will do exactly what you need.
> (http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/) You can even use Prawn to scale the graphics, I think. So your basic
> workflow would be to use Applescript to get the list of filenames, which you would then pass to a
> Ruby script which would do the actual PDF creation. You can try to run the Ruby script from a
> "do shell" in Applescript, but the quoting and escaping that ensues is a world of hurt. You are much
> better off storing a version of the Rubyscript in a text file with placeholder text for the file lists which
> Applescript will substitute in. Those Applescript lists need to be converted to a form Ruby understands (not difficult).
> Then you can just read in the Ruby script into Applescript from the text file, "search and replace" your
> placeholder text with the applescript variables you want in there and then save the text file somewhere (as a .rb file) and
> make it executable. Run it from Applescript using: do shell script "MacHD/Users/MyUser/myRubyScript.rb"
> Move the Ruby executable to the trash when done.
>
> Here is a simple example I created quite a while back to make small PDFs which would fit onto the iphone
> http://forums.supercard.us/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=53&p=290&hilit=vince#p290
> And here is the entire script which was created to take text from Supercard and insert it into a text only PDF sized for the iPhone:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> require 'rubygems'
> require "prawn"
>
> x = <<BIG_STRING_DELIM
> xxxINSERTED_TEXTxxx
> BIG_STRING_DELIM
> # margins in the next line seem to be pixels...
> pdf = Prawn::Document.new(:page_size => "A6", :page_layout => :portrait, :left_margin => 20, :right_margin => 20, :top_margin => 20, :bottom_margin => 35)
> pdf.font "Helvetica"
> pdf.text "TITLE_OF_DOCUMENT_HERE \n", :size => 18
> pdf.text "AUTHOR_HERE \n (c)2008", :size => 10
> pdf.start_new_page
> pdf.font "Helvetica"
> pdf.text x, :size => 10
> pdf.render_file "myPDF.pdf"
> So you would, for example read in the script into an Applescript variable, then replace 'xxxINSERTED_TEXTxxx' with
> the main body text, and replace "TITLE_OF_DOCUMENT_HERE" and "AUTHOR_HERE" then save the script as an executable
> ruby (.rb) file and execute it from the command line as described above. Vióla.
> Good luck!
> vince
>
>
>
>> hi Shane,
>>
>> You're right, and I didn't explain it clearly. And it isn't easy :)
>> I just want to avoid any commercial application to get it done.
>> Any default app like preview would be OK to use or even pdfroff
>> NAME
>> pdfroff - create PDF documents using groff
>>
>> Many thanks for your comments,
>> jan
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6 mei 2012, at 11:44, Shane Stanley wrote:
>>
>> > On 06/05/2012, at 6:56 PM, Jan-Bultereys wrote:
>> >
>> >> no feedback on this topic
>> >
>> > I'm still trying to come to grips with your comment that it "looks easy". I mean, you can describe any task in simple terms, and say it looks easy. (Take a few kg or plutonium... it looks easy...)
>> >
>> > But applications are written for a reason. And given that AppleScript, of all languages, was written basically as a way of driving applications rather than doing stuff itself, I'm a bit surprised at your expectations.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
>> > 'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <
>> www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/
>> >
>> >
>> >
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