[OSX-Users] Re: automation of tasks

[Marcus Cobden]

If the automator bindings for that package prove to be unworkable, there's a screenshot-based automation tool which works on macs:

http://sikuli.org/

On 1 Dec 2010, at 15:27, Luc Moreau wrote:

> 
> 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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