Books
Danny Goodman’s ground-breaking AppleScript Handbook; outdated and out of print, it remains a classic, and is now available through print-on-demand direct from the publisher:
Ethan Wilde, AppleScript for the Internet: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit Press: 1998):
Currently out of print, but check http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201353598/ for a used copy.
Ethan Wilde, AppleScript for Applications: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit Press: 2001):
Shirley Hopkins, AppleScripting InDesign (Dtp Connection: 2000):
Shirley Hopkins, AppleScripting QuarkXPress (Dtp Connection: 2000):
Ethan Wilde, Adobe Illustrator Scripting with Visual Basic and AppleScript (Adobe: 2002):
Matt Neuburg, Frontier: The Definitive Guide (O’Reilly & Associates, 1998); contains some helpful technical discussion of AEPrint format and of how object references are structured as Apple events:
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