Re: Scripting to save a file as .pdf
Re: Scripting to save a file as .pdf
- Subject: Re: Scripting to save a file as .pdf
- From: Brian Dichter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 21:57:48 -0600
on 1/13/2001 11:28 AM, mao at email@hidden wrote:
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Hi
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I'm fairly new to Applescript and I want to email .pdf attachments from a
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database. Can anyone suggest a way of Applescripting Filemaker to save to
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a .pdf file, rather than printing? Laserwriter defaults from "File" to
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"Print" each time!?
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If anyone's done this before, I'd love to know.
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Mike Owen
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Hey Mike. I recently setup some scripts that automate Quark to PDF. Get the
AppleScript guidebooks if you don't have them already. There is a section on
Desktop Printing. I used this information to create a PostScript desktop
printer. Any files that print to this printer will automatically print to a
postscript file. The file will write to the root level of your hard drive
unless you setup a folder action script that reroutes it to another location
such as a watched pdf job folder (assuming you have Adobe Distiller). I even
setup another folder action that prints the final pdf file to a color
printer, uploads it to a separate server.
Anyway, the basic idea is to create a postscript desktop printer. 8)
brian
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