Re: AppleScript Demo
Re: AppleScript Demo
- Subject: Re: AppleScript Demo
- From: Matt Johnston <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 23:38:18 +0000
On Friday, December 27, 2002, at 01:36 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Now Matt - it does sound like you want it handed to you...
Pete, I find that vaguely insulting.
Yes, I'm out of order when I expect Apple to do *anything* to help when
a Newspaper IT guy calls me up and asks me about this AppleScript thing
he's heard can help automate his workflows. Completely out of order
when I ask Apple to provide information or even a little support in
putting together some sort of presentation to try and get this
Apple-proprietary and Mac-only technology into the local publishing
workflows. The correct response from Apple should have been to set up a
demo themselves and market their own products but then, as I said
before, Apple UK is full of jobsworths and clock-watchers.
Showing the power of AppleScript is the sort of thing that might help
Apple stave off a great loss in marketshare in the province as more and
more machines are replaced with NT boxes.
So yeah, I'm out of order in that. I should stick to what I know.
This has been the norm for years and that's why this list exists - to
help out. I am sure that someone may have a presentation that they
have done that they would be willing to share with you. I would if we
had one.
I have about 5 messages bearing opinions and a couple of AppleScripts.
I simply don't have time at the moment to start learning AppleScript
and then start learning how to use InDesign, Photoshop and Quark
XPress. That's why I turned elsewhere. I'd have thought that *someone*
might have a presentation pack but I guess they are reserved for the
marketing cook-offs at Macworld...
HOWEVER you are overlooking the obvious - other sources. Peachpit
Press has a wonderful "make you an expert in a few hours series"
called the Visual QuickStart Guides (which has an EXCELLENT book on
AppleScript). There are the "For Dummies" books from Hungry Minds and
O'Reilly Press has several imprints as well (including David Pogue's
Missing Manual series). Any of these books (and most of them would be
available for review copies if you write them up in your newsletter -
and might possibly be available for donations to your MUG library if
you are on the level with the companies and explain nicely exactly
what the problem is and what you wish to do) can give your group
members a decent overview. You could hand some of them out to various
members and have them do the presos at your meetings over several
months.
If I had the time to learn I wouldn't ask. And it's not *just*
AppleScript - it's the whole automation of workflows. There aren't too
many books on that. Let's see of ORA can come up with a Cookbook.
Most of our presos are member-taught. Why? Because we speak the users
lingo
and not the marketing dept.'s lingo. A member who uses a program has
probably
run into the issues that one will run into and won't fertilize the
field with
the "it's not a bug it's a feature" whitewash. It also keeps the
membership
more involved. So puh-leeze - don't blame the companies.
Don't blame the companies for being unable to market their own products?
To paraphrase John F. Kennedy..."Ask not what the vendors can do for
your user group; ask what your user group members can do for
themselves."
That's exactly what I said. Help yourself because you'll get bugger all
help from Apple.
M
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