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Re: PDFServices (was Re: Printing changes in 10.2.4)

Leonard:

Thanks for the feedback. There are plans to improve on what went into 10.2.4, including support for your suggestion of sending options to an AppleScript. We'll give consideration to your UI suggestions as well.

Other subscribers:

As always, we're open to suggestions for improvements. Feel welcome to post them to this list.

Thanks.

-Paul


On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 08:08 AM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:

At 3:03 PM -0800 2/13/03, Paul Danbold wrote:
- By installing folders, applications, unix tools and applescripts (or aliases to these items) in a "PDF Services" directory, users can implement a wide variety of custom PDF workflow tasks.

First off, let me say "THANK YOU!" to the printing team for this! You just saved me a lot of time and $$ doing a full blown CUPS driver, PDE, etc. to enable direct integration of the printing system with my PDF Enhancer product (http://www.pdfsages.com/enhancer.html).

However, I have a couple of questions about the implementation...

1) Why do only Unix scripts get information about CUPS and the original document name? Why didn't you pass those as optional parameters in the 'odoc' even to scripts and applications? I can think of a number of useful things that my application could do with that information if it had it! Now I have to write a "bridge script" if I want to get it :(.

2) Why do you change the buttons from text to icon ONLY when there are services? I found this disconcerting. Why not have them as icons all the time?

3) How do you add items to the Preview button? Is the "Save as PDF" button the only one that is extensible? Why not allow me to have different items in Preview as well - such as different applications with which to preview?


Leonard
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