newbie applescript archiving ?

… I’m trying to write an apple script that will find all of certain file type(s) in a group of folders and then make an archive of all those file types inside each folder. i.e. finding all the .eps files in folders Chap1 through Chap15 and making an archive of each of them inside their containing folder… optimally grabing the folders name so the archive is named chap1_eps.zip, chap2_eps.zip etc. I’m pretty clueless at this point…

Any pointers you could provide would be greatly appreciated!

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