On Jun 8, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Christopher Suckling wrote: > Dear All, > > With Skim 1.22, the AppleScript: > > tell application "Skim" > set theDoc to front document > set theSelection to selection of theDoc > set theContent to get text for theSelection > end tell > > returns: > > rich text of rich text format > "sdfsdjfskdfhskjdfksdhfiusgfsgfdfkd" of application "Skim" > > If my memory serves me correctly, "get text" used to return plain > text. > Is it still possible to achieve this behaviour or can someone point me > in the right direction to deal with the rich text. > > Many thanks, > > Christopher
This has indeed changed, though in version 1.2.1 (see the release notes). It allows you to get style information from the text as well, something that did not work previously. You can get the plain text by adding "as text" to the statment, you my need to add appropriate parenthesis to guide AppleScript. You can also force an evaluation of the text by adding a "contents of" before the statement. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
