Do you regularly export your wiki to HTML? Do you ever wonder what a particular page looks like after it has been exported? Are you frustrated by the formatted filenames VP uses to make its URLs work? Then this script is for you!

This AppleScript takes the currently visible VoodooPad page and looks for its corresponding HTML document on either the web or your local disk. Please note that you must actually export your .vdoc document somewhere first, or at least the individual page you're looking for. (to find out how to export just the current page with a proper filename, see Export Current Page )


set thePath to "http://homepage.mac.com/MYUSERNAME/wiki/"
-- set this to the path of  the server (or file:/// location)
-- of your wiki's html export.
-- Don't forget the trailing "/"

tell application "VoodooPad"
	set thePage to ""
	set thePage to the name of window 1 as text
	if thePage = "" then set thePage to the name of window 2 as text
	set theDoc to the name of document 1 as text
	set theDoc to theDoc & ":"
end tell

set x to the length of theDoc
repeat while thePage begins with the theDoc
	set thePage to characters (x + 1) thru -1 of thePage as string
end repeat

set the comparison_string to "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
set the source_string to "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

set the newFile to ""
repeat with thisChar in thePage
	set x to the offset of thisChar in the comparison_string
	if x is not 0 then
		set the newFile to (the newFile & character x of the source_string) as string
	else
		set the newFile to (the newFile & thisChar) as string
	end if
end repeat

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
set newFile to (text items of newFile)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "_20"
set newFile to newFile as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
try
	set newFile to (characters 1 thru 23 of newFile)
end try
set newFile to (thePath & newFile & ".html") as text

tell application "Safari"
	make new document at end of documents
	set URL of document 1 to newFile
end tell

Submitted by – mike [dot] com [at] mac [dot] com