automator actions can't be opened

[Johnny Ragadoo]

First, insert standard gushing about BBEdit. It is cool in the extreme.

Automator doesn't show any BBEdit actions. I found a Barebones download BBEditAutomatorActionsInstaller-14.1.pkg at https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/automator.html .

When I tried to open the .pkg file in macOS 12.7.2 Monterey I got an error stating “BBEditAutomatorActionsInstaller-14.1.pkg” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.

Further text in the error dialog says, "This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information."

My guess is this may be because I'm running BBEdit 15.0.

Is there an updated automator actions package for 15.0?

[Rich Siegel]

On 15 Jan 2024, at 9:14, Johnny Ragadoo wrote:

> First, insert standard gushing about BBEdit. It is cool in the extreme.
>
> Automator doesn't show any BBEdit actions. I found a Barebones
> download BBEditAutomatorActionsInstaller-14.1.pkg
> at https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/automator.html .
>
> When I tried to open the .pkg file in macOS 12.7.2 Monterey I got an error
> stating “BBEditAutomatorActionsInstaller-14.1.pkg” can’t be opened because
> Apple cannot check it for malicious software.

Right-click on the package and choose "Open", and then confirm that you wish to do so. Thereafter you should be able to install the actions.

R.


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[Johnny Ragadoo]

Worked great - many thanks for your help.

BBEdit is superb for coding, but I also like to use it for writing content for Affinity Publisher. Affinity is very nice for formatting, a crime against humanity as a word processor. As are most DTP applications.

So, I use a BBEdit notebook. That aggregates all the text and sidebars in one file which I can copy-paste into Affinity.

I use double-returns to delimit paragraphs, so to paste into Affinity I use Remove blank lines/select all/copy/undo before pasting as plain text into Affinity. I could use a word processor, but that has the complication of pasting new styles into Affinity. Of course, I could paste as plain text, but why not just use plain text to begin with?

BBEdit is a great tool.