#Freehand 4.0/AEvents
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I'm trying to get FreeHand 4.0 to open and save a bunch of Adobe Illustrator
files. It can open files of type EPS?, so I'm okay there, but when I try to
issue an Open File command via AppleScript it tells me that FH4 doesn't
understand the Open command, but when I send an Open command (class: aevt; ID:
odoc) from QuicKeys 3.0 it works.
Questions: how can I send an open command to FH4 in an AScript script; and/or
2) how can I get QuicKeys to tell me exactly what it is "saying" to Freehand?
-Thanks!
-Eric.
Eric,
I don't think that Freehand supports Apple Script, does it?
I have Freehand 4.0 and I can't open a dictionary for it using Script Editor.
However, you should be able to send the command to Freehand using:
tell application "Freehand"
<<event aevtodoc>>
end tell
Good luck,
Jackson Sie
Thanks, Jackson. It didn't seem to work, though via QuicKeys 3.0 I can send a
successful apple event to open a doc. I just don't know exactly what the
syntax is since QK handles it. I know that FH4 supports the 4 basic AE's.
-Eric.
Eric,
In what form are you specifying the file to open? I'll bet that FH expects an
alias or a list of aliases to files to open.
In AS try:
open alias "My:Path:To:Open" or
open {alias "My:Path:To:Open", alias "My:Path:To:Open2"}
Donald