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rolf randen - 23 Apr 2007 17:27 GMT

hi there,

(hope i hit the right newsgroup...) i wrote a shellscript to convert
indesign xml-code to html. as i don't want to confront our users with
the terminal, i'm now looking for a way (droplet?!) to integrate it into
finder. any hints are appreciated.

rolf

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Reinder Verlinde - 23 Apr 2007 18:13 GMT

> hi there,
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> rolf

Two easy options:

<http://www.apple.com/applescript/folderactions/05.html> describes how
to call a shell script from a folder action.

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/Au
tomatorConcepts/Articles/ShellScriptActions.html> describes how to call
a shell script from a automator script.

Reinder

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rolf randen - 25 Apr 2007 15:58 GMT

>> hi there,
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> Reinder

hi reinder,

thanks for the links! i think the automator thing will work for me,
altough it's veeeery slow (several seconds just for grabbing path and
filename - in terminal the whole 18kb script needs only about 1 second
to process a 40kb-file).

getting into xcode for just sending some file into a pipe appears a
little exaggerated to me - perhaps i'll have a second look at it when
it's winter again ;)

regards,

rolf

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Sherm Pendley - 25 Apr 2007 16:58 GMT

> (hope i hit the right newsgroup...) i wrote a shellscript to convert
> indesign xml-code to html. as i don't want to confront our users with
> the terminal, i'm now looking for a way (droplet?!) to integrate it into
> finder. any hints are appreciated.

Have a look at Wil Sanchez' DropScript:

<http://www.wsanchez.net/software/>

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rolf randen - 26 Apr 2007 10:33 GMT

>> (hope i hit the right newsgroup...) i wrote a shellscript to convert
>> indesign xml-code to html. as i don't want to confront our users with
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> sherm--

hallo sherm,

thank you, that's exactly what i was looking for! the "shove"-
examplescript even works as a droplet, although it's ment to be an
app-service.

with best regards,

rolf

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