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#1
January 17th, 2004, 01:23 PM
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| Can applescript "watch" a folder & create PDFs from files that appear in it? I would be awesome to have an action that converted items to PDFs as soon as they appear in a folder. Can an applescript "watch" a folder? I say watch, because the files are being moved there by a remote user or script - which means the finder isn't involved.
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January 17th, 2004, 01:49 PM
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| To do this, you'd enable the Apple Script as a folder action.
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January 17th, 2004, 03:20 PM
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| At work we run an applescript on a G4 dual 1.25GHz web server that opens, checks the contents of a folder, and then closes the folder once every second, if it finds a text file file, it opens it in Quark and flows in the text file on a certain designated business card template using style sheets to alter type and point sizes, from there Quark distills the file into a PDF then instantly uploads it to the end-user so they can see exactly how their business card will look. All controlled by Applescript. It takes a total of about 5 seconds. |
