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- I managed to get hold of a colection of 242 tiff files--all with DOS-style filenames
- that were completely meaningless to me. Having no way of knowing what each graphic
- looked like, and not wanting to manually open up 242 files one at a time, I decided to
- take advantage of PageMaker's scripting ability and AppleScript. The result is the
- accampanying script.
-
- This script gets a list of all the files in a folder (the foldername is hard-coded in the
- script). A repeat loop then traverses the list and, taking one file at a time, imports
- the file, resizes it, at places it within a 3 by 4 grid. The filename is used as a
- caption which is placed below each graphic.
-
- This script could be easily modified for any similar tasks. It would be great for creating
- a membership directory where photos of members were scaned and named with the individual's
- name.
-
- PageMaker presents somewhat of a challenge for this type of script because it only
- recognizes the "do script" and "evaluate" Apple Events. Each step of the script must
- be sent one at a time as text. I got around this by combining text literals and variables
- and then placing the result in a variable. I then passed the variables to PageMaker.
-
- Any questions or comments can be sent to jsteele@access.digex.net (Jeff Steele).
-