Thanks to everyone who replied to my query. The GUI script by John Delacour and Bruce Van Allen should work fine for my purposes.
Regards, Vic On 3/22/07, at 11:37 AM -0700, Bruce Van Allen wrote: > tell application "System Events" > set the clipboard to "" -- no spurious clipboard content > tell process "Preview" > set frontmost to true > keystroke "2" using command down -- use text Tool > keystroke "a" using command down > delay 1 -- or longer for large docs > keystroke "c" using command down > end tell > end tell > set _text to the clipboard > do shell script "cd; pbpaste > trash.txt; open -a bbedit trash.txt"
