Scripts at your command: let AppleScript automate your workflow drudgery
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Apple's AppleScript scripting language for the Macintosh is included with System 7.5 and later and is easier to use than other scripting languages. Apple events are used to transfer information, commands and requests between applications, the operating system and networks. The AppleScript extension in the System Folder translates the script into Apple events and transmits them to the application. The extension receives the result from the application and sends it to the source of the script. QuarkXPress supports AppleScript in version 3.2 and later and features the most extensive AppleScript functionality of any publishing application. Adobe PageMaker uses its own scripting language but also supports AppleScript for sending scripting commands (actions) and queries (requests for information) to the program. Main Event's PhotoScripter plug-in for Adobe Photoshop extends that program's limited AppleScript support. Examples of AppleScript applications are provided.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1999
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TrueType confessions
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Apple Computer Inc's TrueType font scaling technology's major advantage over Adobe Systems' Type One is a rich language that can produce typefaces that are optically consistent through any range of scaling, though particularly at low resolutions. The superior readability of conventional, mechanically produced typographic typefaces is due to numerous subtle design inconsistencies in individual letters in each size. Type One outline fonts can be scaled to almost any size, but its language is not rich enough to provide the unique design variations required to make a type face equally readable at each size, specially at 300-dots-per-inch resolution and on a computer screen. Conversely, TrueType provides type designers with 'instructions' that can be used to order, retain or eliminate inconsistencies that improve readability at lower resolutions. Adobe Systems has responded with the announcement of a similar scaling technology, Multiple Master.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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System 7 offers new power, sophistication
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System 7, from Apple, offers many important advantages such as convenience, inter-document capabilities, and new font alternatives. Extended memory is available via unused hard disk space with a virtual memory option. The 32-bit addressing option is available for the Macintosh IIci, IIfx, or IIse for installation of up to 128Mbytes RAM, or users can take advantage of the virtual memory option to create usable memory up to 1Gbyte. The virtual memory option is not available on the Mac Plus, Classic, Portable, LC or Mac II without the Page Memory Management Unit. Most major software applications are compatible with System 7. TrueType, an alternative to PostScript fonts, is a font standard built into System 7. File sharing capabilities allow designation of up to ten folders or volumes on the Mac for access by other users on a network. The biggest drawback to System 7 is the amount of memory it requires.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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