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ReadyScript is a macro language that you can use to automatically generate Sahafi documents indistinguishable from those you create manually. ReadyScript is a powerful tool, automating many aspects of desktop publishing. You can create ReadyScript files in any Mac word processing or other type of application that saves a file in ASCII format or lets you write a program to write the script (such as in the Hypercard example in this guide). But you'll probably use your favorite word processing application to create your scripts.
You can use ReadyScript for database publishing, report generation, and mail merge, for example. You can create command language scripts that read and format text or graphics data from your database or spreadsheet programs. Once you've saved the database or spreadsheet data you want to use in an ASCII (text) file, you just choose the Open Script command in Sahafi and specify which script you want to use. Sahafi reads the script file and creates a Sahafi document with your database or spreadsheet data formatted according to the ReadyScript commands you used in the script. And, it is ready to be printed as camera-ready copy! You can re-use and modify your scripts for other documents, revisions, subsequent issues, and so on.
You'll find that most of Sahafi's features for formatting text and graphics, as well as whole layouts, are available in ReadyScript. If you want to use a Sahafi feature that is not available, you can manually modify your document after you've created it.
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