| As may be apparent by my lack of continued posts related to Adobe Flex, my Flex activities were put on hold a while back. The project I was looking at got canceled.
I have lots of projects in mind, so my future posts will reflect that with tips, discoveries, and such on various technologies (Objective-C, iPhone development, Ruby on Rails work, etc.)
Yesterday I was struggling to do some scanning on my Mac. The Snow Leopard (that’s OS X 10.6 for the non-Mac folks) built-in app for scanning is called Image Capture. It’s very rudimentary, having two glaring feature omissions: inability to create multi-page PDF scans, and inability to define an auto file naming scheme. For the multi-page issue I decided I could live without it because I’m just scanning things to get rid of paper. I can always go back and join PDFs if I really care.
But the file naming thing was really bothering me. The old junky Epson software I used here could do it, but now I’m using some HP all-in-one printer/scanner thing, and the HP software doesn’t provide scanning tools. Thus I’m stuck with what OS X provides. I could just can all files to the same name, and the OS will number them itself (“scan 1.pdf”, “scan 2.pdf”, etc.). But I don’t like spaces in filenames, and I wanted something more clever such as the datestamp in the filename.
Thus began my very frustrating foray into AppleScript. See the few following posts for details on that, along with things I’ve learned and code I would like to share.