Read this article to learn how to use UTIs effectively in your application, to manage file types and take advantage of key Mac OS X technologies. Also, read this article to learn how building Automator actions and workflows can create new sales opportunities.
Simplifying Data Handling with Uniform Type Identifiers
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Eugenia Loli
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I’m sorry, Automater, AppleScript is not quite up to the ease of use to be used by normal folks yet.
We don’t need a programmng language, we need a list of options, put them in a row and Automator will go about using the programs to do the job.
Heck Quickeys does a better job automating.
We need something that can record our actions and then communicate back to us to clarify exactly what we want done. Step by step.
It also should be intelligent and flexible so we can say drop any image format and size into a special folder and it will take it and make it a 400 x 600 jpeg with quality under 20 mb file size.
Relying upon developers isn’t the way to go with automation. Mac OS X should simply move the mouse and perform the actions instead of the user if the user chooses too.
Forget what apps can be scriptable/automatored or not, they all should be.
You have never use Automator, do you? You can’t even spell it
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Something that can record our action? Doable in all Adobe CS apps. But not very usefull in others. What Automator do is giving you the power to create small “batch” between most MacOS X apps, and to do it the graphical way (choose application, choose action, choose option, go next step and so on). Everyone can use that
Apple encourage programmers to add hook so that you can Applescript every application you want.
For what you describe, it took 5 minutes with Automator to do that…
More, what you want isn’t going to work if you change location of one windows
OLE for apple, snore.