Hi. i am a new mac user. can you tell me what to do with this script to make
it work?
thanks
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On 11/04/2012, at 2:40 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Just wanted to drop you guys a little script i made to help you with copy and
> pasting stuff from pdfs web or anything actually.
>
> The basic premise here is to copy whatever sentence paragraph or whatever
> text you have, use the copy last phrase to clipboard command and my script
> will automatically paste it to the end of your text editor window.
>
> This is very useful if you have long text that you want copied and pasted
> from pdf files just as they are supposed to be without wasting time on
> switching apps, reformatting etc.
>
> Here's the script:
>
> set thetext to get the clipboard
> tell application "TextEdit"
> set theindex to every paragraph of front document
> set thecount to count theindex
> set thecount to thecount + 1
> set paragraph thecount of front document to thetext
>
> say "pasted to text editor"
> end tell
>
>
> Copy it all, paste it into your applescript editor which is
> /applications/utilitiesapplescript editor
> /
>
> The best thing to do next is to apply a gesture to the script.
>
> Here is how i do this:
>
> I have option one finger flick down to read the next sentence
>
> Option tow finger flick down for next paragraph
>
> Then i have option four finger flick left to copy last phrase to clipboard
>
> Lastly, i use option pinch out for running the script
>
> With this, every paragraph you want to copy is then pasted without switching
> to the text editor and back.
>
> I'll make a better version later on but if you want to play with this one
> already and test it out, be my guest :)
>
>
> I might make a short podcast to demonstrate how faast one's productivity can
> get with this technique
>
> Yuma
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