I'm trying to extract/get the annotations from a QuickTime file using AppleScript and I'm having a heck of a time doing so. tell application "QuickTime Player 7" set the_movie to document 1 tell ...

Jason Snell's Bad AppleScripts deal with helpful subroutines and parsing nasty file paths.

Select “New” from the File menu, and select “Service” from the template chooser that pops up. In Automator, find “Run AppleScript,” like so: Then, paste in your script!

My guess is that you can't use it via a file url but will have to embed the file in the IMAP email if that's what you're doing. That is you'll need to just make an email attachment.

Saving the AppleScript You can save this script as an application in order to quickly take screenshots in the file type you want. To save the script as an appliction: Select File > Save As Select ...

Use a simple Terminal command to add basic AppleScript support to Preview.

This AppleScript will launch Google Chrome if it is not already running, and will not overwrite any existing tabs in Google Chrome. To use this AppleScript, you will need to download it from Github.