On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to do this in script? > Ah my favourite pass time :-) Probably no use to you Richard as I believe this is for personal use only as it requires PDF2RTFService from Devon Systems: http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/services.html I quickly checked the web-site but couldn't find anything, maybe it's in the Read Me when you install, but I seem to remember something about personal use only. Sill, for the inventive users out there, this will help. Secondly, this is OSX only. Easy Solution: After installing PDF2RTFService, set the Preferences in TextEdit so that a 'new' document will be opened as Plain Text, not RTF. Use Rev to 'force' the pdf document to be opened with TextEdit. PDF2RTFService will automatically translate the PDF to RTF. Use AppleScript to take the contents (rtf) of the file, open a new document (txt) and insert the now plain text into the document. Save the document with a fixed name and location. User Rev to read the fixed file. So in Rev: launch tFileName with "/yourHD/Applications/TextEdit.app" the 8 line AppleScript looks like this: 1 tell application "TextEdit" 2 set theText to the text of document 1 3 make new document 4 set the path of document 1 to "/yourHD/Users/Shared/Untitled1.txt" 5 save document 1 6 close document 1 7 close document 1 8 end tell It is important to note that there should be no other documents open in TextEdit when you run this. After Rev launches your pdf with TextEdit it will become document 1. When AppleScript 'makes new document', that is now document 1. I fix the location to save 'Untitled1' in the Shared folder as this eliminates any permissions issues. AppleScript then closes document 1, which leaves the original file open, which now becomes document 1, which explains why document 1 is closed twice. I'll leave it up to you to put the above in a variable;-) but obviously you'd run it Rev: do tAppleScript as AppleScript followed by: put URL "file:/yourHD/Users/Shared/Untitled1.txt" into tTheText Clearly this can easily be put into a repeat loop to run through a bunch of pdf files to be opened, converted then fed into Untitled1 and finally read into Rev. Slightly more complex: for those who wish to keep the converted files, here's the ApplesScript that will save the txt version in same location as the pdf version, and just the extension changed: 1 tell application "TextEdit" 2 set thePDFPath to the path of document 1 3 set endChar to the count character in thePDFPath 4 set endChar to endChar - 4 5 set theTxtPath to (characters 1 thru endChar of (thePDFPath as text) & ".txt") as text 6 set theText to the text of document 1 7 make new document 8 set the path of document 1 to theTxtPath 9 set the text of document 1 to theText 10 save document 1 11 close document 1 12 close document 1 13 end tell Obviously in this case you'll need to do a bit of chunk manipulation in Rev to figure out from the start file name and location where you'll find the txt version so you can URL it. But that's so easy in Rev :-) HTHs someone _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution