Re: Scripting Newbie
Re: Scripting Newbie
- Subject: Re: Scripting Newbie
- From: "John R. Head" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:44:47 -0500
on 8/28/01 9:00 AM, email@hidden at email@hidden
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First Post. Newbie. Definitely not clueless, but very inexperienced.
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I'm looking for information to script the following process on a G3,
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OS9, 128MB using PageMaker 6.52 and Acrobat 4.05a...
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I have hundreds of PM Docs that I'd like to select, open and distill
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to PDF files in batch. I need to be able to have some interaction
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during the process to enter metadata into the title/author/keyword
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fields in distiller. I'm trying to avoid the tedious mouse clicks and
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keyboard strokes (OK, Save, Returns, PDF Options/Edit Info Buttons).
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Is this possible? Am I in the right place? I'm not a programmer, but I
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do understand the concept. I've recorded several snipits of code, but
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putting it all together is causing me a real headache. Suggestions?
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I am not sure Pagemaker is very scriptable from the Applescript side, unless
they have changed in the last few years. But there is a book on Pagemaker
from Adobe regarding PageMaker's own scripting language, and I have a copy
if you want.
But also you could use Applescript to print to a set of PS files to have a
copy of Distiller to watch the folder where you print the files to.
John R. Head, CTO
Visionary Media Inc
www.visionary-media.com
512-258-7311