Heh.

I was thinking that I bet I would start with the repeat loop style, that would closely mimic the way I had done it by hand. That might be good enough, but often I end up extending a script to do things that I didn't think of at first.

When that happens, usually I then want the list (actually applescript records) so that I can do all those extra things.

Don't forget though, premature optimization is the root of all evil...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Macintosh Scripting Systems
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Steele
> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 9:52 AM
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> Subject: Re: Record an Applescript
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> > On Aug 5, 2015, at 5:51 PM, SUBSCRIBE MACSCRPT Inyo55
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Bill,
> > It will be a regular thing from incoming PDF documents.
> > In general, is it more efficient to generate the list of page group amounts
> first, then throw them at the PDF to export separate PDF files all at once, or get
> a page amount of each group and make each new PDF in-line from the original
> PDF, as a repeat loop?
> 
> You could almost flip a coin, but the first way you open the text editor and do it
> all, then open Acrobat and do it all; the second way you jump back and forth
> between them, and you have to wait for each one to activate each time.
> 
> You have two horses to exercise: Dobbin and Nellie. You could ride Dobbin once
> around he track, get off, get on Nellie and ride once around the track, repeat
> 20 times.  Or you could ride Dobbin 20 laps and then ride Nellie 20 laps.
> 
> Or, you have two girlfriends...
> 
> 
> 
> Bill Steele
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