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Re: problems saving pdf

Subject: Re: problems saving pdf
From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 11:51:36 +1000

On 9 Apr 2015, at 11:08 am, Stockly, Ed <email@hidden> wrote:

made a few tweaks…

Let's make another one:

set myName to ((characters 1 thru -5 of myName) as string)

Making a list and then coercing to a string is a bad idea, because as well as being unnecessary work, the result depends on the value of text item delimiters -- and that makes it fragile. Far better to use:

set myName to text 1 thru -5 of myName

--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>

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