Send with PowerMail PDF Service!
Through some solid trial and (many) error(s) I was able to figure out the
send with PowerMail PDF Service!
on open these_items
tell application PowerMail
set msg to make new message with properties
{attachment:these_items}
open msg
activate
end tell
end open
Sends ANY document you print as Print Job.pdf from within PowerMail. You
need to save it to you machine, user or network /library/PDF Services/
folder as a compiled script.
More here: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/CoreTechnologies/
graphics/Printing/PDF_Workflow/pdfwf_concepts/index.html
Enjoy!
JG
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Re(2): flag feature (+ logical sorting bug...?)
At 9 mars 2003, 17.01 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But this leads to a logical sorting error/bug: Priority 9 gets in top before Priority 8 etc. and in the bottom you get Priority None. Now, I can understand the computer itself works in terms of 9 is higher than 8 etc. But in this particular case I think we all agree that Priority 1 is higher than Priority 2, right? Thus when sorting priorities we should get 1 at top, then 2 etc and None at the bottom. This I believe should be fixed by CTM, no? I think I see what you're saying. But, if you go to the right and click the sort-order arrow (just above the scroll bar arrow) it reverses direction. The problem: having to switch back and forth from label to date or subject sorting -- could be confusing. Yes but it's no solution, because now I get Priority None at top. It's no big fuss, really. I can solve this problem by either restricting myself to either use only one label, or to regard Priority 9 as Priority 1 etc. when using PowerMail. I just thought it to be in CTM's own interest to present a software using human rather than machine logic. The days when human minds had to adopt to a PC's limited ways to operate are supposed to be history, right? /Max Gossell
Re: PowerMail bits and bytes
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* On Sun, Mar 9, 2003, Jonathan Greene said: sorted by date here and it does not work... OS X 10.2.4 PM 4.1.2 on Sun, 9 Mar 2003 10:06:22 -0800 /Andy Fragen said: On Sun, Mar 9, 2003, Jonathan Greene said: Space Bar ... I like the usual scan through a message, but why not go to the next message as well if you reach the end? It does this for me. Sorted 3 pane view by subject. I don't believe Entourage would scroll to the next message unless the folder was sorted by subject either. I do agree that regardless of how the messages are sorted using the space bar should go to the next unread message in the folder. -- Andy Fragen
Re(2): powermail-discuss Digest #1431 - 03/08/03
This bug is happening to me as well. No command A or select all menu option. damn. -- As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. -- Dick Cavett on Sun, 9 Mar 2003 10:19:26 -0800 /Ira Lansing said: Here's a benign but bizarre bug I just discovered which I can reliably reproduce: 1. compose a new message. 2. select all text (presuming there is a signature pre-inserted in the body). 3. press backspace. 4. type some text. 5. choose 'select all' from the 'edit' menu. ...but you can't, because 'select all' is greyed out and unavailable, when it shouldn't be. -ben Interestingly, even with Select All unavailable, command-A worked for me.
Re: powermail-discuss Digest #1431 - 03/08/03
Here's a benign but bizarre bug I just discovered which I can reliably reproduce: 1. compose a new message. 2. select all text (presuming there is a signature pre-inserted in the body). 3. press backspace. 4. type some text. 5. choose 'select all' from the 'edit' menu. ...but you can't, because 'select all' is greyed out and unavailable, when it shouldn't be. -ben Interestingly, even with Select All unavailable, command-A worked for me. 2) Script/Feature: Resend. Double-click the message. Begin to type in it. A pop-up tells you this message has already been sent and asks if you want a duplicate. Click Duplicate then type whatever you want, add other recipients if needed, and send it on its merry way. Not a well-documented feature, but it exists. I found it by accident; it has been mentioned in this list from time to time. You can also control-click on the message and choose Send, which at this point is really resend. If you want to modify the message, the above comments still apply. --Ira
Re: PowerMail bits and bytes
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* On Sun, Mar 9, 2003, Neil Lee said: One other thing that would be nice to see is a proper mailing list manager, so I could set a always reply to email address for mailing lists. This is one of the few things that Entourage does quite well that no other client handles gracefully... I agree. Entourage does this exceedingly well. If you subscribe to the digest of a list I've written a script package that will burst the digest to individual messages and optionally add a Reply-To: header to the mailing list. It can be found on Wayne's PM Script page. -- Andy Fragen TiBook 400/384 RAM - OS X 10.2.4 - PowerMail v4.1.2
Re(2): PowerMail bits and bytes
sorted by date here and it does not work... OS X 10.2.4 PM 4.1.2 -- One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. --Elbert Hubbard on Sun, 9 Mar 2003 10:06:22 -0800 /Andy Fragen said: On Sun, Mar 9, 2003, Jonathan Greene said: Space Bar ... I like the usual scan through a message, but why not go to the next message as well if you reach the end? It does this for me. Sorted 3 pane view by subject.
Re: PowerMail bits and bytes
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* On Sun, Mar 9, 2003, Jonathan Greene said: Space Bar ... I like the usual scan through a message, but why not go to the next message as well if you reach the end? It does this for me. Sorted 3 pane view by subject. -- Andy Fragen TiBook 400/384 RAM - OS X 10.2.4 - PowerMail v4.1.2
Re: PowerMail bits and bytes
Dear Jonathan, Highlights... can this be an entire line instead of just a subject? Seems to be an awkward implementation. I think this is on purpose, as it allows you to start drawing a selection rectangle from the non-highlighted points in a line. Otherwise, if the full line was highlighted, starting a drag from a point within that highlighted area would have to start a drag of the message instead of starting to draw a selection rectangle - at least from a HIG perspective. Arrow Keys...Why can we not utilize the arrow keys in the recipients space to easily move to another contact. Having to use the mouse is ok, but the keyboard is much faster - especially when combined with Shift+Tab I think this is already possible: *.. Ctrl-up/down: select recipient (if already entered) *.. Starting to type: enter recipient *.. Cmd-up/down: choose adressing mode (To / CC / BCC, while entering recipient) *.. Backspace: delete currently highlighted recipient *.. Tab: move from Name to Address field (while entering address) Drafts... Anyway to set where these get saved? Why in the Out Tray? Why not in a Drafts Tray? I have found no preference for this and find it can be easy to forget about a message or two... Drafts are always at the top in the Out Tray (when sorted by Sent date and if they haven't been sent yet, even if they are older than other sent messages). Since I file sent messages with a filter away into their corresponding folders, I can keep the Out Tray sorted by Sent date without problem and see at a glance which messages are still in draft mode. You may also sort by Status, of course. Regards, Christian.
Indexing and Sleep
Well, after a bout of troubleshooting, it looks like CTM still hasn't fixed one of the bigger indexing problems - it doesn't allow my machine to go into deep sleep if indexing is turned on. As soon as I turn indexing off, my machine goes to sleep as expected. If I leave indexing on, my machine stays awake. This, compounded with the frequent crashes I'm getting with indexing, leads me to believe that CTM needs to completely overhaul the indexing engine for Powermail. Problem is, I have never seen any acknowledgement of this problem by Jerome or any of the CTM developers, and my requests for support have gone unanswered. Very frustrating. Neil --- Slumming at the beatnikPad : http://www.beatnikpad.com/ Working at theNonsuch: http://reblog.thenonsuch.com/ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | yeah.
Re: PowerMail bits and bytes
Highlights... can this be an entire line instead of just a subject? Seems to be an awkward implementation. Threads... I love the idea of highlighting by thread in Mail and it is something I always found great when scrolling through a long list of messages... Oh yeah! I totally agree for both of these. One other thing that would be nice to see is a proper mailing list manager, so I could set a always reply to email address for mailing lists. This is one of the few things that Entourage does quite well that no other client handles gracefully... Neil --- Slumming at the beatnikPad : http://www.beatnikpad.com/ Working at theNonsuch: http://reblog.thenonsuch.com/ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | yeah.
PowerMail bits and bytes
So a few days into PowerMail and I am noticing things that work, but perhaps not quite as expecting having used Entourage and Mail... Highlights... can this be an entire line instead of just a subject? Seems to be an awkward implementation. Threads... I love the idea of highlighting by thread in Mail and it is something I always found great when scrolling through a long list of messages... Arrow Keys...Why can we not utilize the arrow keys in the recipients space to easily move to another contact. Having to use the mouse is ok, but the keyboard is much faster - especially when combined with Shift+Tab Drafts... Anyway to set where these get saved? Why in the Out Tray? Why not in a Drafts Tray? I have found no preference for this and find it can be easy to forget about a message or two... Message actions...Keyboard shortcuts... Why is there no way to mark read or unread from the keyboard? Has there been though about a contextual menu or actual menu to transfer messages into folders? That seems like an obvious one - especially when viewing through the Recent Mail view. I'm hooked - really like PM! Just a few nits... Thanks, JG -- We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet. -- HP executive, responding to Apple Computer founders Steve Jobs' and Steve Wozniak's attempts to interest the company in the personal computer they had designed, 1976.
Connection correction
I've been trying to get PowerMail to wake up to the fact that a connection is dead. It seems to respond to a dead connection by acting dead itself. And it never reawakens unless a 'mouse up' event occurs on the 'stop' button in the connection status window. When the connection to the ISP dies during a connection - for whatever reason - PowerMail sits there with the connection status window showing whatever it was showing when the connection terminated. If I run another connect script it will not connect. The ongoing connection can only be terminated with the one method that I have described - clicking the stop button. When this condition exists I can get a 'true' result from 'connection in progress' in applescript. I had assumed that this would permit me to do a disconnect but the disconnect entry in PM dictionary is for an IMAP account. It is looking like the only option left is to 'quit' PM via applescript if the 'connection in progress' is true, and then activate PM again to do a new connection. If anyone has any better insights into PM scripting and how to achieve a disconnect without quitting I would find it helpful. thanks, Martin
Re(3): Newbie reflections: Requesting scripts and features
I am looking for a script that will auto-attach a printed PDF like the
applescript apple provided for Mail:
on open these_items
tell application Mail
set the new_message to (make new outgoing message with
properties
{visible:true})
tell the new_message
tell content
repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items
set this_file to item i of these_items
make new attachment with properties
{file name:this_file} at before
the first character
end repeat
end tell
end tell
end tell
end open
I don't know anything about applescript except how to use it once written ;)
--
We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.
-- HP executive, responding to Apple Computer founders Steve Jobs'
and Steve Wozniak's attempts to interest the company in the personal
computer they had designed, 1976.
on Sat, 8 Mar 2003 13:12:52 -0600 /Neil Lee said:
Are their work-flow scripts to take advantage of Apple's PDF Services for
PM? I did not see anything at the site...
What are you looking for, exactly? Apple's PDF services work specifically
with Apple's print services, so whatever you can print, you can pipe
through the PDF services.
Re: Newbie reflections: Requesting scripts and features
Incoming messages have a drop down menu called 'File in: ' where you can select a folder to file the message in. aha - I understood you where referring to filters. ---marlyse
