Using applescript to copy paste image description

Question

Hi all,I&#x27;m new to playing around with applescript for anything more than VERY basic repetitive tasks. What I am trying to do is create a script to:place a single image as an attachment into a new email to a specific addressplace the image caption/description from the metadata of the image as the text of the email and send. Now, I think I&#x27;ve got everything sorted apart from accessing the image caption, copying, and pasting it. I&#x27;m assuming this is possible? Any hints?

rtsnoz · Answer

Got there in the end. 🙂on openthese          repeat with this_file in these                    try                              tell application "Image Events"-- start the Image Events applicationlaunch-- open the image file                                        set this_image to openthis_file-- extract the value for the metadata tag                                        tell this_image                                                  set the camera_type to the value of metadata tag "description"                                        end tell-- purge the open image dataclosethis_image                                        set theContent to camera_type &amp; "" &amp; "Filed: " &amp; (current date)                                           set theAttachment to this_file                                        tell application "Mail"                                                  set theMessage to makenewoutgoing messagewith properties {visible:true, subject:" ", content:theContent}                                                  tell content of theMessagemakenewattachmentwith properties {file name:theAttachment} at after last paragraph                                                  end tell                                                  tell theMessage                                                            make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {name:"pic editor", address:"mail@test.com"}                                                  end tell                                                  tell theMessage                                                            send                                                  end tell                                        end tell                              end tell                    on error error_messagedisplay dialogerror_messagebuttons {"Cancel"} default button 1                    end try          end repeatend open