Dropping Applescript support for Pages

apple new suite is grate!, but as it does not have Applescript support for Pages I can no longer use my citations tools and that makes pages '13 useless for me. Are you going to fix that at any time soon?

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
Hard to add AppleScript support for things that simply are not there.
True. However, if you look at the Applescript dictionary for Pages '09, most of the objects are still there in the UI in Pages 5 even though there is no way of scripting them. It seems there simply was no time to get them into the scripting dictionary. The citation tools of Guchi922 may not be supported, however.
If Apple implements all the objects they can in Pages 5' scripting dictionary, another question arises: Will there be much compatibility with scripts written for Pages '09, and there I do not dare being an optimist.

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> I just got off a lengthy call with Dreamweaver tech
support, and they confirmed
> that there is no longer any support for database
connectivity using ASP.Net VB
> in the new CS4 version. The only connectivity that is
supported is through a
> Spry Dataset. The technician said that this appears to
be a security related
> issue and that Adobe has no intentions of changing this.
>
> Why would Adobe do this?
>
> I have used Dreamweaver for many years, and this was one
of the strongest
> parts of the program, and the decision ends our
company?s use of any newer
> version of the product.
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