File Actions
You can set up File Actions for images that you're working on in Acorn. File Actions will perform tasks with the image, taking it out of Acorn and do whatever you want with it.
The File Actions that come pre-installed will take the image that you're currently working on and email it, add it to iPhoto, or open it in Preview.
If you're curious about making or installing new ones, follow these steps:
1. Choose the menu File-> Actions in Acorn
2. Select "Open File Actions Folder"
3. Start Messing around!
From here you can duplicate the actions that are in there and edit them, or move in pre-made actions from around the net.
If you're curious as to how to make your own, the easiest way is to open up one of the pre-installed ones in TextEdit and fiddle with it.
#!/bin/bash /usr/bin/open -a iPhoto "$*"
This tells Acorn to open the image in iPhoto.
You may have noticed that you can drag images into the Dock and applications that have the ability to open them will highlight. Any of those applications can be named in this script instead of iPhoto. Simply changing it to say "Safari" will open the image in Safari instead of iPhoto.
Shell, Python and AppleScript will work as long as they call the right things, which i'll write more on in a bit. You can also check out some premade scripts that aren't pre-installed, here are a few. If you have one that you would like me to add, email me∞.
- Upload to Blog
Upload an image to your weblog via the MetaWeblog API.
- "Open in Eudora" script, by Stephen Dodd
http://flyingmeat.com/fs/contrib/flysketch/OpeninEudora.sh.zip∞
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