For the next release I've added support for raw RTF data, which the
clipboard does accept. So something like
tell document 1 of app "Skim"
set the clipboard to (get RTF for note 1)
end tell
should work. If you want both the text and the RTF (which doesn't happen
automatically), you can do something like:
tell document 1 of app "Skim"
set the clipboard to {RTF:get RTF for note 1, text:get text of note 1
as text}
end tell
BTW, if you put a reference on the clipboard using AppleScript, that is
actually added as a reference, not the evaluated data. That's also why I
inserted an extra "get" command in my second sample above.
Christiaan
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>wrote:
> I don't think this is possible. AppleScript support for rich text is really
> bad, because there does not exist a built-in type for rich text. So when
> it's evaluated or assigned to a variable it will be coerced to plain text.
> To add insult to injury, the "set the clipboard" command provided by Apple
> cannot handle object specifiers (references), so there's really no way to
> put rich text on the clipboard using AppleScript. The only thing I can
> advice is to file a bug report with Apple (I will) and hope that in the next
> OS version things will actually work (though chances are close to zero,
> perhaps 10.7).
>
> Christiaan
>
>
> On 24 Dec 2008, at 10:50 PM, Steven Audette wrote:
>
> After reading the AppleScript Skim wiki page (
>> http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/AppleScript
>> ), I don't see any way to access the notes as rich text.
>> The AppleScript dictionary says that the text of a note is "rich text".
>>
>> I have tried:
>> tell document 1 of application "Skim"
>> set foo to {rich text of note 1}
>> set the clipboard to foo
>> end tell
>>
>> and:
>> tell document 1 of application "Skim"
>> set foo to {ref rich text of note 1}
>> set the clipboard to foo as rich text
>> end tell
>>
>> but these don't compile. This compiles, but doesn't put anything in
>> the clipboard:
>> tell document 1 of application "Skim"
>> set foo to {ref rich text of note 1}
>> set the clipboard to foo
>> end tell
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve
>>
>
>
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