Re: Need help with Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Re: Need help with Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
- Subject: Re: Need help with Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
- From: Matt Deatherage <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:09:19 -0600
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On 3/10/07 at 7:29 PM, Bryan Lockwood <email@hidden> wrote:
>You can drop JPEG files on the Acrobat app itself and it understands and
>incorporates them into a new document. Or you can choose "Create PDF"/"From
>Multiple Files..." and build up a list of files which you can then save.
>
>How then do I do this in AppleScript?
You're overthinking it.
- -- theFiles is a list of JPEG files to open, as type alias
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Professional"
activate
open theFiles
end tell
Now, in the "I like overthinking things" department, I don't
know how to
keep Acrobat from asking in a modal dialog box if you want to combine
all of those files into a single document.
The "open" verb in Acrobat Pro 8 accepts a string of "options," but
nowhere in the dictionary or even in Adobe's 80MB Acrobat SDK do they
bother to define what those options might be or how to use
them. In
fact, in the 226-page Acrobat IAC API reference, it's listed as
"Optional parameter string of open actions."
The text "parameter string" and "open actions" appears *nowhere
else* in
the document except in that one line. Thanks for making that clear,
Adobe!
The SDK is free and available in one piece or as individual parts:
<http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/>
You'll need an Adobe ID to download it, but they're free.
- --Matt
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Matt Deatherage <email@hidden>
GCSF, Incorporated <http://www.macjournals.com>
"What kind of apple is my head, anyway?" -- Martha Stewart, 2005.10.05
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