{"id":30253,"date":"2020-09-25T16:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30253"},"modified":"2020-09-25T16:43:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T20:43:42","slug":"pixelmator-pro-gets-applescript-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/25\/pixelmator-pro-gets-applescript-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixelmator Pro Gets AppleScript Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pixelmator<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Big news from the Pixelmator Team, today we’re releasing a major update to Pixelmator Pro. Version 1.8, codenamed Lynx, is now here, bringing incredibly full-featured support for AppleScript.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

In our quest to make AppleScript support as great and full-featured as possible, we collaborated with Sal Soghoian, the legendary user automation guru<\/a>, who served at Apple for 20 years as the Product Manager of Automation Technologies, including AppleScript, Services, the Terminal, Apple Configurator and Automator, among others. We’re super glad to have had the opportunity to work with Sal. He was a big help with our scripting dictionary and we think the extra attention to detail really paid off!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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You can say “But AppleScript is so old and it’s such a weird frustrating language<\/a>” — and you’d be right. AppleScript is really<\/em> old. It’s palpably the product of a bygone era. It’s one of the last classic Mac OS era technologies that’s still kicking and relevant. But it’s what we’ve got. Clearly, Apple doesn’t care enough about professional tool automation to create an altogether new scripting system, but they care enough to keep AppleScript going.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pixelmator: Big news from the Pixelmator Team, today we’re releasing a major update to Pixelmator Pro. Version 1.8, codenamed Lynx, is now here, bringing incredibly full-featured support for AppleScript. […] In our quest to make AppleScript support as great and full-featured as possible, we collaborated with Sal Soghoian, the legendary user automation guru, who served […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-09-25T20:43:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"5ef8d0f1-6f26-43a9-9705-e77929ec93cd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-09-25T20:43:46Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AXvjQ8W8mQ6mXBed5KeyTzQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[159,30,32,1666,1781],"class_list":["post-30253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-applescript","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-15","tag-pixelmator"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30254,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30253\/revisions\/30254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}