Re: Print Word document to PDF

Subject: Re: Print Word document to PDF

From: Peter Baxter <email@hidden>

Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:07:11 +1000

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Thanks Michael,

Your script helped me get through the problem of not being able to get to Preview. Here is the resulting script. I'll refine it from here.

That 13 second delay should be able to be checked against activity in system events using a loop.

set myfile to "test" as text

tell application "Microsoft Word" to activate

tell application "System Events"

tell application process "Microsoft Word"

click menu item "Print..." of menu "File" of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1

delay 0.5

click button 4 of UI element 5 of window 1

end tell

delay 13

tell application "Preview" to activate

tell application "System Events"

tell application process "Preview"

keystroke "S" using command down

delay 3

tell application "System Events"

keystroke myfile

delay 0.2

key code 36

end tell

delay 4

keystroke "w" using command down

end tell

On 16/06/2007, at 9:29 PM, Michael Ghilissen wrote:

Here is my version of a Word to PDF script:

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

Peter Baxter

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>Print word document to PDF (From: Peter Baxter <email@hidden>)

>Re: Print word document to PDF (From: Jeremy Sellors <email@hidden>)

>Re: Print Word document to PDF (From: Michael Ghilissen <email@hidden>)