That was an awesome reveal.
I wonder where else that would work. Safari ???
HHmmmm
Thanks
Tom
On Feb 23, 2008, at 4:48 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:
Stop the Presses!!!!
I'm over the moon, I can't believe I missed this before, I can't
believe how
many circles I've run, but I thought I'd have another go at trying to
eliminating the step of creating an extra document, I want
AppleScript to
talk directly to Rev, and I'VE FOUND IT :-)
Read the Doc's, Read the Doc's, Read the Doc's. As bad as we
complain they
are, there is still so much in there if only I took in what I read;-)
Here's what the Doc's say about the 'do' command:
If you use the do as OSALanguageName form, any result returned by
the script
language is placed in the result.
ANY result from AppleScript will be placed in Rev's 'the result'
I look at AppleScript's 'Event Log' window all the time to check the
'Result' of each major step. The first step of my script is to put
the text
of the document into a variable. is that a result?. So, out of
interest I
removed all the following steps so the only step of the script was
to place
the text into an AppleScript variable.
Then in Rev I simply ' put the result into myVariable'. And there it
was,
all the text. It's that easy!!! The only minor minor problem is that
in
comes in AppleScript format, which means there are quotes around the
content, but a quick 'put char 2 to -2' will eliminate those.
So in Rev:
use the launch command to force a pdf to open with TextEdit
use do to run this AppleScript:
tell application "TextEdit"
set tText to the text of document 1
end tell
put the result into myVariable --is now full of your pdf's text :-))))
put char 2 to -2 of myVariable into myVariable --remove quotes
you'll probably want to do another 'do' to run this AppleScript to
close the
document
tell application "TextEdit"
close document 1
--or if your finished with TextEdit
quit
--you will be prompted to save if there are any unsaved docs
end tell
Now to go and celebrate with some really loud Stevie Ray
Vaughn...The house
is a rockin' so don't bother knockin'
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