Re: Acrobat is/is not scriptable
Re: Acrobat is/is not scriptable
- Subject: Re: Acrobat is/is not scriptable
- From: Jason Bourque <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 07:42:46 -0400
On 8/19/01 10:21 PM, "George Mack" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Hello AppleScripters!
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I have been trying to deal with Acrobat's dictionary (still on
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version 4) and while I can write a script to delete every Link in a
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file, apparently I cannot even identify properties of a link using
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AppleScript. Is version 5.0 ANY better??
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I have even downloaded Eric Grant's Sigma's Coercions to try to pull
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labels... no use.
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I get the cryptic but apparently incontrovertible message
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"Acrobat 4.0 got an error: tation performs a special action, not
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available via AppleEvents."
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(tation -- not even in the dictionary!)
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Does anyone have any enlightenment/workarounds? Or even Plug-Ins?
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Eventually I would like to automate the creation of PDAnnots (links).
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George
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Acrobat is limited in it's scripting implementation. I believe their is a
pdf on Apple Events on their development site. Let me know if you can't find
it I have a copy.
Don't use 5.0 , adobe broke a few things.(update should fix this)
As for the links. Do you need to make the links after the document is
created or can you do it in the original program. Some programs offer this.
Another work around at least for 5 is JavaScript (heavely documented and
supposely well implemented.
Good luck.
Jason Bourque