Re: Intro, and a problem with a workflow.
Re: Intro, and a problem with a workflow.
- Subject: Re: Intro, and a problem with a workflow.
- From: hd <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:20:46 +0000
On 22 Mar, 2008, at 6:45, Ron J. wrote:
Hi everyone!
Hi Ron !
The workflow seems to execute just fine - no warnings. Problem is,
my final output, before processing it with Text-to-Speech, is a text
file with three copies of the selected PDF file's extracted text in
it! As you can well-imagine, if lengthly PDFs are selected for
processing, this renders even longer output for TTS processing.
Here are the steps in my workflow:
1. Get Confirmation action. ...
2. Ask for Text. ...
3. New Text File. ...
4. Ask For finder Items. ...
5. Extract PDF Text. ...
At this point the results of the previous actions are being passed
into Get Specified Finder Items, and combined with the two files you
specify. That's why you're getting the extra copies. You need to
"block" previous results from further processing.
One way is to insert a Run AppleScript Action that returns "nothing".
Delete all the ready-made content and make a one-line AppleScript:
return {}
This will ensure that there is no input to step 6, and allow it to
process only the files which you specify.
6. Get Specified Finder Items....
7. Combine Text Files. ...
Hope this helps.
H
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