Re: applescript-users digest, Vol 2 #225 - 2 msgs
Re: applescript-users digest, Vol 2 #225 - 2 msgs
- Subject: Re: applescript-users digest, Vol 2 #225 - 2 msgs
- From: Super Julio <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:24:57 +0100
Super Julio dixit:
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Today's Topics:
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1. Re: Sucking...compressing...sending (Richard 23)
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2. Re: Scripting to save a file as .pdf (Brian Dichter)
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Message: 1
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Subject: Re: Sucking...compressing...sending
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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:16:31 -0800
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From: Richard 23 <email@hidden>
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To: <email@hidden>
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>> One minor thing which lept out at me was the metaphorical equivalent of
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>> clubbing somebody to death with a loaded uzi...using Stuffit Deluxe for
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>> basic archive creation. Use DropStuff instead.
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> I wouldn't recommend using DropStuff either, since you have
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> limited/no control over any options that you might wish to apply in
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> the Stuffing process. Use my StuffIt Commands OSAX
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Well uh yeah maybe. Other than the no control over options is there
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a problem using DropStuff if all one wants to do is stuff the items
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passed in an alias list using DropStuff's current settings?
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It's not going to flake out or die or anything, right? It's your
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basic drag and drop to dropstuff which is all I need to do most of
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the time (although I do it by hand, not by script).
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In the original script it looked like all they were doing was creating
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a new archive containing a single file and they made no reference to
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any other terminology or specific settings. It seems to me that if
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no frills are needed sending to DropStuff would be the way to go.
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Nothing against Stuffit Commands Osax of course. But given the
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posted script it didn't seem necessary.
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R23
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Message: 2
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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 21:57:48 -0600
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Subject: Re: Scripting to save a file as .pdf
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From: Brian Dichter <email@hidden>
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To: <email@hidden>
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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
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AppleScript guidebooks if you don't have them already. There is a section on
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Desktop Printing. I used this information to create a PostScript desktop
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printer. Any files that print to this printer will automatically print to a
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postscript file. The file will write to the root level of your hard drive
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unless you setup a folder action script that reroutes it to another location
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such as a watched pdf job folder (assuming you have Adobe Distiller). I even
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setup another folder action that prints the final pdf file to a color
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printer, uploads it to a separate server.
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Anyway, the basic idea is to create a postscript desktop printer. 8)
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brian
Mike:
I've been scripting quark too, in order to batch processing pdf's. Have you
tried the dropplet "Droprint" (by John Paul Du bois) to automate that
process? You can adapte it for Filemaker /and/ using "PDFWriter" (Adobe) or
"PrintToPDF" (by James W. Walker) <
http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/pdf.html>
(both are desktop printers). You'd only have to select the printer and drop
files or folders into "Droprint". But there is a problem (it is my problem,
help!): the default size of the page is "A4".
Bye!
Julio.