On Sep 27, 2014, at 14:07, Antonio Fortin wrote:
> The Hazel rule I have does exactly that. I’ve tried running the script on its
> own, specifying an actual PDF rather than `theFile` (see below), and nothing
> happened.
>
> `
> tell application "BibDesk"
> if (count of documents) is 0 then make new document
> tell front document
> set thePub to make new publication
> add "MBA:Users:antonio:foo.pdf" to thePub -- replace with path to your own PDF
> end tell
> end tell
> `
>
> —Antonio
>
That's a string, not a file object. You need to convert it to a file. So
something like
POSIX file "/MBA/Users/antonio/foo.pdf"
or
alias "MBA:Users:antonio:foo.pdf"
(file "MBA:Users:antonio:foo.pdf" should work in theory but does not work in
practice.)
That does work for me.
Christiaan
> On 27 Sep 2014, at 13:52, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Of course this script won't do anything by itself. It is not complete, it is
>> just a fragment for the relevant part related to BibDesk. You have to
>> somehow pass the file to the script. I don't know if and how Hazel can do
>> that.
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>> On Sep 27, 2014, at 13:06, Antonio Fortin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Christiaan,
>>>
>>> Many thanks for that. However, when I trigger the script in Hazel, the PDF
>>> in question doesn’t get added to BibDesk. I know that the rest of the rule
>>> is working, because it does other things (like remove the tag).
>>>
>>> I suspect I haven’t set it up correctly, however. I’ve attached a
>>> screenshot of the rule. Does it work for you, as it is?
>>>
>>> I’ll almost always want to import to an existing library when BibDesk is
>>> already running, so I’m not worrying about the conditional statement or
>>> activating BibDesk just yet.
>>>
>>> Thanks again.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Antonio
>>>
>>> <hazelBibDesk.jpg>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26 Sep 2014, at 23:04, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 26, 2014, at 19:54, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 26, 2014, at 08:17, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> AppleScript could very well do this. But how to write that AppleScript
>>>>>> really depends on how you want to use it and what you want precisely to
>>>>>> do. Probably you need some AppleScript like the following (here I assume
>>>>>> theFile is the file you want to add):
>>>>>
>>>>> The same script would also work if you have BD set to open a particular
>>>>> .bib file at launch, right? That would allow the OP to append new PDFs to
>>>>> the same .bib database.
>>>>>
>>>>> Adam
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, it should. Though if you want to apply this also in cases where
>>>> BibDesk should launch, then you probably also want to add an "activate"
>>>> command somewhere. And I can imagine there may be timing issues (i.e. it
>>>> checks for the count of documents before the initial file was launched),
>>>> though a quick test does seem to work.
>>>>
>>>> Christiaan
>>
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