Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 15, Issue 33
Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 15, Issue 33
- Subject: Re: AppleScript-Users Digest, Vol 15, Issue 33
- From: Tim Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:45:48 +0000
The way the iWork applications work with AS has been a major big-time
disappointment to me. Everything has either been butchered and deprecated or
just plain ignored.
What a shame!
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> 1. Pages Text Boxes; Text Items; iWork Items (Ed Stockly)
> 2. Re: Pages Text Boxes; Text Items; iWork Items
> (Jean-Christophe Helary)
> 3. Re: Pages Text Boxes; Text Items; iWork Items (Stockly, Ed)
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> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 15:52:56 -0800
> From: Ed Stockly <email@hidden>
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> Subject: Pages Text Boxes; Text Items; iWork Items
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> I’m still using Pages 4.1 because I have documents with numerous text boxes
> identified with names, that are populated via appleScript.
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> None of the more recent versions of Pages allow you to name text boxes, text
> items or iWork items.
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> Has anyone found a workaround?
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> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:32:33 +0900
> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: Pages Text Boxes; Text Items; iWork Items
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>> On Feb 26, 2018, at 8:52, Ed Stockly <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I’m still using Pages 4.1 because I have documents with numerous text boxes
>> identified with names, that are populated via appleScript.
>>
>> None of the more recent versions of Pages allow you to name text boxes, text
>> items or iWork items.
>>
>> Has anyone found a workaround?
>
> Aren't the items numbered ?
>
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> Jean-Christophe Helary
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> http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 19:11:12 +0000
> From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
> To: Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden>,
> "email@hidden"
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> Subject: Re: Pages Text Boxes; Text Items; iWork Items
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> I think that changes depending on front to back, and users will change
> that.
>
> The one script that has an issue populates several different forms, with
> the same data.
>
> In previous versions, it's a simple matter of placing a text box with the
> correct name in the right place on the page (with appropriate style for
> that version).
>
> Now it's a mess. The id changes from form to form. Using numbers doesn't
> work from form to form or even within the same form.
>
> I'm trying a workaround using tables, which can be named. Mostly I'm using
> tables with only one cell.
>
> This used to work so well (still does in the earlier version).
>
> Ed
>
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> On 2/25/18, 7:32 PM, "AppleScript-Users on behalf of Jean-Christophe
> Helary" <applescript-users-bounces+ed.stockly=email@hidden
> on behalf of email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> On Feb 26, 2018, at 8:52, Ed Stockly <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> I’m still using Pages 4.1 because I have documents with numerous text
>>> boxes identified with names, that are populated via appleScript.
>>> None of the more recent versions of Pages allow you to name text boxes,
>>> text items or iWork items.
>>> Has anyone found a workaround?
>>
>> Aren't the items numbered ?
>>
>>
>> Jean-Christophe Helary
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune
>>
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