Hi,
I am still attempting to write an Applescript to extract certain pages
of text from a PDF document displayed in Skim. The code I have
extracts a page of text each time the search item is found. This
means that it the item appears more than once on a page then that page
is out put more than once. I would like to be able to find the number
of the page that the search item is found to see if that page has been
output before but I have not been able to extract the page number (or
much else) from the list item that the find routine returns. What is
annoying is that Script Debugger reveals that the information exists
in the variable, I am just unable to extract it for use in my code.
I use this to do the find inside a "tell document 1" construct :
set theSel to find text theText
Looking at the variable "theSel" in Script Debugger shows that it is a
list of one item; item 1 is displayed with a value of characters 724
thru 731 of text of page 52 of document "diveintopython.pdf". If I
drag item 1 into code editor Script Debugger inserts the following code:
tell application "Skim"
tell document "diveintopython.pdf"
tell page 52
tell text
tell characters 724
thru 731
-- your code
goes here
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
I reason that if Script Debugger is able to extract the page number
then so should AppleScript. Any idea how it may be achieved?
best wishes and thanks
Simon
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