OK, I had never used the open handler so I needed to play a bit.
It looks like it returns a list of files. I am not quite sure if the file items
are themselves lists, but am working that out, it did appear that your repeat
was not properly enclosing the logic.
I am going to break it down to a couple more handlers and then give it a try
So, I will have a SetPagesExtension handler that will take arguments and return
a POSIX file object with proper name for the save.
I will also create a handler that will just open the given file and save it.
again. For testing purposes, I created a run handler
on run
set aList to the files of Window 1 of Application Finder whose name contains
".docx"
repeat with anItem in aList
set NewName to SetPagesType(anItem )
try OpenAndClose(anItem, NewName)
on error
say "something went wrong"
end try
end repeat
end run
Best wishes,
Jonathan
> On Sep 26, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Using the below Apple Script compiled as an application:
>
> on open filist
> repeat with lvar in filist
> tell application "Finder"
> set thename to name of lvar
> end tell
> set x to the offset of "." in thename set nuname to
> text 1 thru text item x of thename
> set nuname to text 1 thru text item x of thename
> tell application "Pages"
> activate
> set filname to (path to desktop folder as text) &
> nuname & "pages"
> open lvar
> save document 1 in filname
> close every window saving no
> end tell
> end repeat
> end open
>
> I'm having frustrations. How this normally should work, is that you would
> drag and drop a Word file, or folder full of Word files on to my W2P app
> icon. The app would then open the Word file, get rid of the .docx extension,
> change it to a .pages extension then save the file on the Desktop. Doing
> this manually, everything works as it should. Using the app, though, Pages
> spins its wheels for a bit then returns an error. If I do the same action
> with a Pages document instead, then it works properly. I have played with a
> number of variations of this with no real good results as of yet.
>
> You, or anyone else is welcome to mess with it an d see if you can determine
> how to make it work properly.
>
> Later...
>
> Tim Kilburn
> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
>
> On Sep 25, 2016, at 10:09, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com
> <mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I don't see a automator library for Pages, but certainly I would expect that
> the standard save action in AppleScript should work. The question is how
> would you want your batch processor to work probably the easiest would be to
> create a folder and then create a folder action AppleScript for that folder.
>
> A lot of us use the folder action script that announces when a new file is
> placed in the downloads folder, so I could see modifying this.
>
> How much interest is there in this?
>
> .
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
>> On Sep 25, 2016, at 6:41 AM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk
>> <mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk>> wrote:
>>
>> Pages does not handle RTF, but opening a Word document in Pages and then
>> saving it will convert the document to Pages format.
>>
>> Maybe Automator could be used for batch conversion.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Anne
>>
>> .
>>
>>> On 25 Sep 2016, at 03:51, Simon Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com
>>> <mailto:si...@blinky-net.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> What about using an RTF format document?
>>>
>>> Surely RTF would be picked up by Pages
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