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Step-by-step instructions, code samples, screen captures, and exercises teach readers how to control applications and share data between programs automatically using AppleScripts. Beginning material offers simple scripts for Mac OS tasks, then moves on to scripts for popular Macintosh applications such as Photoshop, QuarkXpress, and Illustrator. Advanced material presents detailed instructions for scripting a workflow project using data from FileMaker Pro. The author is a principal at a multimedia company. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)