[OSX-Users] automation of tasks

[Luc Moreau]

I am trying to solve the following problem.

citrin (an interactive stats package on mac) stores graphs in its 
proprietary format .cwi.
citrin has got an export to pdf menu. I would like to automate the 
conversion of every
new version of a .cwi file to pdf in some folders.

citrin does not have its own scripting language. command line calls don't
seem to work either. It seems purely interactive. Is there a way to 
solve this problem?

I tried Automator but without much success. Workflow replay seems to lead
to failures.

1. Is Automator the right way?
2. Can I regenerate pdf files, whenever a new cwi file/new version is saved?
3. Alternatively, can this be done manually?
4. Do you have examples?

Thanks for your help,
Luc

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