I suspect that either:
* It is not a text file; Tex-Edit Plus also handles RTF, DOC, and
AppleWorks files.
* It is a text file, but the text encoding is not matching what you've
chosen in BBEdit.
Rick Gordon
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On August 17, 2023 at 11:06:59 PM [-0700], Eric wrote in an email
entitled "Re: Bbedit Applescript command":
Ok last thing.
If I simply drag the SourceFile onto the TexEdit app it opens
correctly formatted.
Drag it onto BBedit it doesn't.
Anyone know why ?
Kind Regards
Eric
On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 3:10:09 PM UTC+10 Eric wrote:
Hi again,
A bit more.
I've stepped through the whole process and it is in this line that
the necessary transformations done
*save*/window/1 in/file/ResultFileas/string/with
creator«/class/TBB6» *with* unstyled formatting
Commenting out each phrase after ResultFile fails until it's all
there. The works.
Switching to BBedit starts with not compiling with the Creator
Type phrase.
Cutting that out and seeing I can force the string complies but
fails to execute.
"Can’t make file "xyz" of application "BBEdit" into type string.
So I'm back to square one.
How to reproduce that line in BBedit :(
Kind Regards
Eric
On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 2:21:55 PM UTC+10 Eric wrote:
Hi Fletcher,
Thanks for responding.
I think because I've been struggling to understand what's
happening I've struggled to explain the problem.
Assuming along the way that its just an app switch.
But not quite so.
Below is text messy but I've narrowed down the issue.
The presenting problem is simply that in one case Indesign
opens the import tagged text dialog and responds. In the other
it misses that's tagged text coming in.
So this Snippet transforms the text and works.
(*Process the file for InDesign*)
*tell* /application/"Tex-Edit Plus"
*activate*
*open*/file/SourceFile
*save*/window/1 in/file/ResultFileas/string/with
creator«/class/TBB6» *with* unstyled formatting
*close*/window/1 saving/no/
*end* *tell*
*tell* /application/"Finder"
*activate*
*end* *tell*(*Process the file for InDesign*)
*tell* /application/"Tex-Edit Plus"
*activate*
*open*/file/SourceFile
*save*/window/1 in/file/ResultFileas/string/with
creator«/class/TBB6» *with* unstyled formatting
*close*/window/1 saving/no/
*end* *tell*
*tell* /application/"Finder"
*activate*
*end* *tell*
Resultant text is
_______
<ASCII-MAC>
<Version:3.000000><FeatureSet:InDesign-Roman><ColorTable:=<Black:COLOR:CMYK:Process:0.000000,0.000000,0.000000,1.000000>
etc etc with paragraphs and line feeds seperating text blocks
___________
This Snippet using BBEdit
(*Process the file for InDesign*)
*tell* /application/"BBEdit"
*activate*
*open*/file/SourceFile
*save*/text document/1 to/file/ResultFile
*close*/window/1
*end* *tell*
*tell* /application/"Finder"
*activate*
*end*
Results in this text all before getting to ASCII-MAC and
produces no line feeds
__________
{\rtf1\mac\ansicpg10000\uc1
\deff4\deflang1033\deflangfe1033{\upr{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset256\fprq2{\*\panose
00020206030504050203}Times New Roman{\*\falt
Times};}{\f4\fnil\fcharset256\fprq2{\*\panose
00020005000000000000}Times;}
and so on
_________
What is the switch I need to get in there that resolves the
raw text to the Tex-Edit processed one ?
Thank you if you got this far
Kind Regards
Eric
On Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 11:59:47 AM UTC+10 Fletcher
Sandbeck wrote:
System Events can change some metadata. After giving the
appropriate permissions, this works to set a file to open
with TextEdit rather than BBedit.
*
*
*tell* /application/"System Events"
*set* default application*of*
/file/"/Users/fletcher/Desktop/myfile.txt" *to*
/file/"Smog:System:Applications:TextEdit.app:"
*end**tell*
Presumably this would work to set the Creator Type but
it's harder for me to test.
*tell* /application/ "System Events"
*set* creator type*of*
/file/"/Users/fletcher/Desktop/myfile.txt.txt" *to*
«/class/TBB6»
*end**tell*
Hope this helps,
[fletcher]
On Aug 16, 2023, at 4:01 PM, Eric <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi,
For context I have n AS that changes the creator type of
a text file using Tex-Edit Plus which is no longer
useable in Monterey so that Indesign recognises it.
The line is
save window 1 in file ResultFile as string with creator
«class TBB6» with unstyled formatting
Is there an equivalent in BBEdit ?
The script snippet is here
Various script steps preceding defining variables
————
(*Process the file for InDesign*)
tell application "Tex-Edit Plus"
activate
open file SourceFile
save window 1 in file ResultFile as string with creator
«class TBB6» with unstyled formatting
close window 1 saving no
end tell
tell application "Finder"
activate
end tell
——————
Thanks.
Kind Regards
Eric
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