On 5 Jul 2021, at 17:13, Francisco Hirsch wrote:
I have a TextFactory and an AppleScript.
I do the following:
Open pdf in Acrobat
Select all, copy, paste in a new BBEdit Window, process with the
TextFactory, run the AppleScript clicking in BBEdit Scripts,
And everything works.
But if I include the AppleScript as the last line in the TextFactory:
It saves the original text copied from the pdf with it’s first line
as it’s name.
In other words, it’s as if the script (up to AppleScript line) did
not work or the text was substituted in the AppleScript.
I’m baffled.
Each step in a text factory is intended to process the text that
resulted from the previous step (or the file's contents, if it's the
first step).
The user manual says:
===
• When you use the Run AppleScript Filter operation, your script
should be written with an entry point named “ApplyTextTransform”.
The input parameter to this entry point is a Unicode string containing
the file’s contents. This entry point should return the file’s
contents as a Unicode string (or something which can be directly coerced
to one):
on ApplyTextTransform (fileData)
-- do something to fileData
return fileData -- or some reasonable facsimile thereof
====
Thus, text factories are not a way to chain together the execution of
arbitrary AppleScripts, *unless* the scripts you're running explicitly
process text provided as input to the text factory.
R.
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