On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 08:18:12AM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: > Sadly, ssh won't provide access to Mac GUI apps, though VNC will give > you remote desktop access. > > Scripting Mac apps is possible via AppleScript, though I've only > dabbled in it enough to make a mess of things. :-)
This will not be touched by human hands. A program on a linux machine will remotely start an AppleScript (?) on the Mac to print a postage label, in whatever format the postage program emits (worst case, a postscript to a printer) then suck the image back in, crop and manipulate it if necessary, then construct an envelope image (with address and return address) and print it. Perhaps I can assemble the whole image on the Mac and print it from there, but my experience with Macs is that the programs want to do things /their/ way. If this is a monthly mailing to some patients, the Linux script may also add the postal bar coding, and print out a heap of envelopes and accompanying letters, ZIP5 sorted. As long as the application is scriptable in some manner, and I can launch a script and move files over the office's ethertubes, I can automate the whole process - except for folding the paper and stuffing the envelopes, and I can hire that out +/-HIPAA. The big remaining problem is making sure the correct letter goes in the correct envelope - I will probably add images to specifically match envelope to letter, an example of the sort of oddball thing I can't expect a closed source user application to do. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
