Hello,
This is a quick and dirty AppleScript I've made for my personal use. It adds
the PDF files linked to the currently selected publications to iTunes, so they
can later be synced to the iBooks app on an iPhone or an iPad.
The PDF is tagged with the year, title and authors' last names in iTunes. While
the script can manage multiple publications at once, it only adds the first
linked PDF (I had no need for more, and no use case to test). It's quite slow
and gives no feedback upon error or completion.
By all means, if you're interested, please criticize what's wrong with it!
Source file is here (text format) :
http://meidosem.com/stuff/Add%20PDF%20to%20iTunes.applescript
Here's the code :
on run
tell application "BibDesk"
set sel to selection of document 1
repeat with pub in sel
try
set authList to last name of every author of pub
set auth to my list_to_text(authList, ", ")
set y to publication year of pub
set tit_ to title of pub
set tit to my clean_brackets(tit_)
set fil to (first linked file of pub whose
POSIX path contains ".pdf")
my add_to_iTunes(fil, tit, auth, y)
end try
end repeat
end tell
end run
-- Inspired by Doug Adams' PDF Adder, http://dougscripts.com/300.
on add_to_iTunes(fil, tit, auth, y)
tell application "iTunes"
set new_PDF to (add fil)
tell new_PDF
set {name, artist, year} to {tit, auth, y}
set loc to location
end tell
return {(location of new_PDF), new_PDF}
end tell
end add_to_iTunes
on clean_brackets(s) -- dirty handler to remove {} from publication titles.
Nothing is done for the accents.
set shellstring to "echo " & quoted form of s & " |sed 's/[\\{}]//g'"
return do shell script shellstring
end clean_brackets
on list_to_text(l, delim)
set oldDelim to AppleScript's text item delimiters
try
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {delim}
set newString to (every item of l) as text
end try
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelim
return newString
end list_to_text
Enjoy!
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