First, I ran the script code in the script editor, and found that there was an error. The Numbers did not understand the save command, The script command was as follows:
tell application "Numbers"
set thisDocument to open alias "Macintosh HD:Users:admin:numbers-FATP.xls"
tell thisDocument
save thisDocument in file "Macintosh HD:Users:admin:NumbersTest.numbers"
end tell
close thisDocument
end tell
And the specific error information was as follows:
error "“Numbers” encountered an error：“remove id \"C76B3CB0-D007-46C4-BEB0-9C65D0E65767\"” do not understand “save” information." number -1708 from remove id "C76B3CB0-D007-46C4-BEB0-9C65D0E65767"
The point is, sometimes can execute the script code, sometimes can't perform, and it is puzzling, I try to change the computer version and version Numbers, but did not solve the problem, this is why, look forward to your reply, best regards!
I refer to this website: https://iworkautomation.com/numbers/document-save.html
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Every month I get my bank balance which it is basically just a table. In order to get a better overview of my expenses I would like to export this list into a Numbers (iWork) document. My wish would like to use Applescript so can automate this process :)
Does anyone knows how can I convert a PDF (text-type) list into CSV, Excel or Numbers?
If you've tried any code, it would be good to see. Also, it's hard to know what the results might be without seeing how the type of pdf you're working with goes through this kind of process. With that in mind, here's the kind of process I'm talking about...
I would suggest downloading and using the beautifully script-able Skim pdf app (http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/). Preview is too limited. The basic Adobe reader probably has adequate functionality, but, well, I'm a Skim fan.
A CSV file is basically just text, so this should work, but again, not knowing how your text is formatted I cannot be sure of the results. I'd be happy to make edits if you share examples. The following worked well with a pure text pdf:
tell application "Finder" to set dt to desktop as string
tell application "Skim"
set docName to name of document 1
set baseName to text 1 thru ((offset of "." in docName) - 1) of docName
set docText to text of document 1
set filePath to (dt & baseName & ".csv")
set myFile to open for access filePath with write permission
write docText to myFile --as «class utf8»--depending on results, you may need this last part. test
close access myFile
end tell
tell application "Numbers"
activate -- I got weird buggy results not activating (or at least launching) first.
open alias filePath
end tell
I am trying to write an Apple Script for Sketch.app (com.bohemiancoding.sketch3). What i want to do is, create some image file that can be rendered in browser from Sketch document.
And when i open Sketch.app dictionary in Script Editior i see
saveable file format enum
Sketch : The native Sketch 2 file format
PDF : Portable Document Format
TIFF : Tagged Image File Format
So i thought about generating TIFF using following script, but it did not work
tell application "Sketch"
set curdoc to document 0
save curdoc in "/Users/mirza/Downloads/mew2" as TIFF
end tell
I can create sketch copies in .sketch format with save command but not PDF or TIFF. Does sketch supports PDF and TIFF using apple script?
Or is there any other way around for that.
Update
I change the path to apple script format and set document index to 1. Now script looks like this
set thisFilePath to (POSIX file "/Users/mirza/Downloads/mew2")
log thisFilePath
tell application "Sketch"
curdoc to document 1
save curdoc in thisFilePath as TIFF -- Tried with quotes as well, gives same error
end tell
But when i run the script i got the following error
Result:
error "Sketch got an error: Can’t continue curdoc." number -1708
Update 2
Fixed typo
set thisFilePath to (POSIX file "/Users/mirza/Downloads/mew2")
log thisFilePath
tell application "Sketch"
set curdoc to document 1
log (path of curdoc)
save curdoc in thisFilePath as "TIFF"
end tell
But when i run the script i got the following error
Result:
error "Sketch got an error: The document cannot be exported to the \"TIFF\" format." number -50
There are a number of things wrong with your code, but, to start with, you're going to find it hard to get definitive answers using software that isn't available anymore. Sketch has been at version 3 for a while now, and the AppleScript dictionary has probably changed.
That being said, here are some thoughts about your code:
If that is what the Sketch 2 AS dictionary reads, then the AS functionality has changed in v3.
I'd like to help, but I can't find v2 anywhere, so I can only do this in the dark.
set thisFilePath to choose file name--use this to select a new file;
------- a Mac AppleScript path is returned (a file specification,
------- actually, which is different from a string or alias
------- (but an alias is kind of like a file spec)
tell application "Sketch"
set curdoc to document 1--not zero-based; 1 is frontmost doc
save curdoc in thisFilePath as "TIFF"--*this is a guess
end tell
So, I don't know what that last save line will do, but it might work. In Sketch 3, "TIFF" format isn't allowed in saving, but it does have an as parameter as part of the save, which is supposed to be paired with a text string representing the format (like "TIFF", above). Sketch 2 seems to have a different scheme (the parameter with as is not a string). If I save without the as parameter in Sketch 3, it saves in Sketch's native format. So you might try this without quotes (like you have). I'm just doing what the v3 dictionary tells me to do.
Here are a couple of solutions and tips:
document 1 should work to reference the frontmost document;
If you want for some reason to write out your path using POSIX
(like you've done), you can use
POSIX file "/Users/mirza/Downloads/mew2"
to return an AppleScript's Mac-style path, which is of this form:
"yourHardDriveName:Users:mirza:Downloads:new2"
You can also get what I have here as "yourHardDriveHame:" by doing
tell application "Finder" to set sDr to startup disk as string
then concat by doing
sDr & "Users:mirza:Downloads:new2"
You can also do
tell application "Finder" to set myHome to home as string
which should return the Mac-style path to the home folder. (And yes, there are other paths Finder allows you to get, too).
There's some stuff to play with.
Today is my first day of even knowing AppleScript exists so I apologize if this is a stupid question. I've searched and can't find the answer on how to simply move a file with AppleScript
All I need to do is move a file from ~/Downloads/blank.potx to ~/Library/Application Support/Office/User Templates/My Templates
This is what I have in AppleScript right now:
tell application "Finder"
move "~/Downloads/blank.potx" to "~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/My Templates/blank.potx"
end tell
When I run this it gives me an error:
error "Finder got an error: AppleEvent handler failed." number -10000
Again, first day using AppleScript and I'm lost. Any help you can provide would be awesome.
If there's a better way to do this please let me know as well.
Thanks!
Search is your friend. You can easily find the syntax on stack overflow. Such as here:
tell application "Finder"
move POSIX file "/Users/xx/Documents/img.jpg" to POSIX file "/Users/xx/Documents/State" with replacing
end tell
If you're gonna use Posix file paths, you need to indicate so, and you need to name the string as a file.
I'm starting to poke around with Applescript and am looking at writing a few scripts for managing windows. A common task they will all need is to get the current screen size.
I've created a screen_size subroutine that seems to work, and I want to be able to share that with all my scripts. However, I can't figure out a way to put that in a separate file that I can load in my other scripts. I tried creating a separate screen_size.scpt file and use load script "screen_size.scpt", but I get an error about "can't make "screen_size.scpt" into a type file".
There has to be a way to do this, but I haven't been able to find anything online about how to do it.
EDIT:
The POSIX stuff suggested isn't working for me. I'm able to create the file object, but it refuses to convert to an alias, saying it can't find the file (looks like the POSIX file stays relative instead of expanding fully).
I found a suggestion online to use Finder, and have gotten the following working to get an alias:
tell application "Finder"
set _myPath to container of (path to me) as text
end tell
set _loadPath to (_myPath & "screen_size.scpt")
set _loadAlias to alias _loadPath
However, the next line fails with a syntax error, claiming that _loadAlias isn't a variable:
property _ScreenSize : load script _loadAlias
Every variation of this I've tried (doing the alias in the load call, etc) fails, always claiming the variable doesn't exist, even though I know it's being set and working as I can display it. What's going on? Why is it claiming a variable doesn't exist when it obviously does?
AppleScript is doing some really weird things when saving and I haven't figured out what's going on, but I ended up getting something to work.
Here's what I have:
on load_script(_scriptName)
tell application "Finder"
set _myPath to container of (path to me) as text
end tell
set _loadPath to (_myPath & _scriptName)
load script (alias _loadPath)
end load_script
set _ScreenSize to load_script("screen_size.scpt")
set _bounds to _ScreenSize's screen_size()
-- ...
The other answers were saying to set _ScreenSize as a property, but that would cause a syntax error which prevented me from ever saving the file. When I did it just using set it worked.
I wasn't ever able to get the POSIX path stuff suggested to work, but poking Finder for the path worked fine.
In order to execute an action from another script, you'll have to create an handler in the script you're going to load (in your answer you already did this with "screen_size()".
In your case this script will be "screen_size.scpt".
So "screen_size.scpt" will have to look something like this:
on screen_size()
--your actions
return [yourvalue] --the value you want to pass to the other script
end screen_size()
The script you'll load it from will have to look like this:
tell application "Finder"
set _myPath to (container of (path to me) as text & "screen_size.scpt") as alias
end tell
set _ScreenSizeScript to load script _myPath
set _bounds to _ScreenSizeScript's screen_size()
If it doesn't work, or you don't understand me completely, feel free to ask (:
Yes there is a way to do this. Load the file into a property and access it that way
property _ScreenSize : load script (alias "pathtoscript")
_ScreenSize's doStuff()
and for relative paths try this:
set p to "./screen_size.scpt"
set a to POSIX file p
so perhaps this will work:
set p to "./screen_size.scpt"
set a to POSIX file p
property _ScreenSize : load script (alias a)
_ScreenSize's doStuff()
I have people using my libraries on a daily basis, so I first ensure the library is here before calling it.
Let's say I have a library "Lib.Excel.app" (save as non-editable application with Satimage's Smile).
At the beginning of a script that makes use of it, I "load" the library by using this code :
set commonCodeFile to (path to library folder as string) & "Scripts:CommonLibraries:Lib.Excel.app"
tell application "Finder"
if not (exists (file commonCodeFile)) then error ("\"Lib.Excel\"
" & "
should be found in folder
" & "
scroll > CommonLibraries")
end tell
global cc -- make it short and easy to write :)
set cc to load script alias ccFile
Then when I have to use a function from the lib, I just call it like this :
set {what, a} to cc's veryNiceFunction()
Yes you can. You need the full path to the script however.
I believe you can still use "path to me" to get the path to the app executing the current script, and you can then modify that path to point to your sub-folder containing the scripts.
I used this technique to get around AppleScripts (former) 32k text size limits years ago for some really large/complex IRC scripting.
I think I still have all those old scripts in my G4, which is under the desk in my office at work. Sadly it's behind a Enet switch and I can't VNC into it otherwise I'd have tons of sample code to post.
You CAN load the script in a variable, but you have to declare it first.
property _ScreenSize : missing value
tell application "Finder" to set _myPath to container of (path to me) as text
set _loadPath to (_myPath & "screen_size.scpt")
set _loadAlias to alias _loadPath
set _ScreenSize to (load script _loadAlias)
I need some way to determine if a particular file exists. If it exists do one script if not then do another script. Here was my logic in applescript:
If exists "File:Path:To:theFile"
tell application "Finder"
open "File:Path:To:the:script"
end tell
else
tell application "Finder"
open "File:Path:To:the:Anotherscript"
end tell
end if
The only problem is that sometimes when i use the above logic the script fails saying can't find the file. I need a full proof, never fails way to see if a file exists. I'm open to using the terminal, or applescript. I'm sure someone has run into this before but I have looked all over the web for an answer but could not find one.
In your original code you're giving the exists function a string, rather than a file, even though it's the path to a file. You have to explicitly give it a file, or it treats it the same as if you had tried to do
exists "god"
or
exists "tooth fairy"
The exists command won't know what you're talking about. You could use
return exists alias "the:path:to:a:file"
but aliases don't work unless the file actually exists, so a non-existent file will create an error. You could of course catch the error and do something with it, but it's simpler to just give the exists function a file object. File objects belong to the Finder application, so:
return exists file "the:path:to:a:file" of application "Finder"
I use the following to see if an item in the Finder exists:
on FinderItemExists(thePath)
try
set thePath to thePath as alias
on error
return false
end try
return true
end FinderItemExists
I think what you're missing is conversion of the path to an alias.
This sounds like a good place for a try...on error block. I believe the following should do what you want:
tell application "Finder"
try
open "File:Path:To:the:script"
on error
open "File:Path:To:the:Anotherscript"
end try
end tell