I finally got it to work. Here’s the version that does exactly what I was
hoping for. Now I just need to get the the script to automatically fill in all
the metadata ;)
`
set posixPath to POSIX path of theFile
set newPDF to POSIX file posixPath
tell application "BibDesk"
if (count of documents) is 0 then make new document
tell front document
set thePub to make new publication
add newPDF to thePub
select thePub
tell thePub to auto file
end tell
end tell
`
Thanks!
—Antonio
On 27 Sep 2014, at 17:41, Antonio Fortin
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Okay, I’ve managed to get things working, more or less. I mistakenly thought
the script was doing nothing, because nothing would happen visibly and, then,
searching for the papers I was trying to add in BibDesk would find nothing.
However, I tried the following, and it also selects the new paper:
`
set posixPath to POSIX path of theFile
set newPDF to POSIX file posixPath
tell application "BibDesk"
if (count of documents) is 0 then make new document
tell front document
set thePub to make new publication
add newPDF to thePub
select thePub
end tell
end tell
`
There’s one more thing I’d like the script (or BibDesk) to do at the end, and
that’s to either move or copy the linked PDF into the BibDesk papers folder.
I’ve set the location for BibDesk to file papers, and I’ve also set it to file
papers automatically (see attachment), but this doesn’t happen. The PDF remains
in the location I saved it in.
<screenshot.png>
Thanks for your help with this Christiaan!
Best,
Antonio
PS. I have no idea what the MS Office-related BibDesk errors were about, but
they’re not happening any more.
On 27 Sep 2014, at 16:40, Christiaan Hofman
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Sep 27, 2014, at 15:32, Antonio Fortin wrote:
On 27 Sep 2014, at 14:20, Christiaan Hofman
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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.
This *should* do it, right?
`
set posixPath to POSIX path of theFile
set newPDF to POSIX file of posixPath
set newPDF to POSIX file posixPath
(leave out the "of")
tell application "BibDesk"
if (count of documents) is 0 then make new document
tell front document
set thePub to make new publication
add newPDF to thePub
end tell
end tell
`
However, it doesn’t. Console shows a few BibDesk errors whenever I execute this
script, but they have to do with MS Office and Spotlight. It looks like this is
what’s causing the problem, but I have no idea how to go about fixing it.
That's strange. What errors? It seems their dictionary are messing up the
language. that is actually far too common with AppleScript (one reason why it's
such a failure of a language.) Though it should not do this here, as it's all
in a "tell application "BibDesk"" block. Perhaps there are scripting extensions
in your ~/Library/ScriptingAdditions from those apps?
Christiaan
Oh well, I’ll keep looking. Thanks for your help, Christiaan. If you have any
ideas on how to fix this problem, I’d love to hear them.
—Antonio
On 27 Sep 2014, at 13:52, Christiaan Hofman
<[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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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