RE: Insert Pages Doesn't Work In Acrobat 5.0
RE: Insert Pages Doesn't Work In Acrobat 5.0
- Subject: RE: Insert Pages Doesn't Work In Acrobat 5.0
- From: "Bourque, Jason" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 07:55:26 -0400
When I was at Seybold Boston Adobe presented it's new Acrobat 5 and at the
end left it open for questions. Mine, did you improve the AppleScript
support in 5. Their response, they looked at each other and finally came up
with no we didn't work on AppleScript for this release and directed me the
the through documention of JavaScript implementation that comes with
examples and even an editor. That doesn't do me any good. I don't have time
to learn yet another scripting language. What a dissapointment.
Well the Panel leader was a printer and was also dispointed in the
AppleScript Support area.
I have emailed several requests that they at least fix what they broke in 5.
Jason Bourque
AppleScript Developer
Publishing Automation
MFS Investment Management
617-954-5312
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From: Bill Briggs
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Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2001 5:35 PM
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To: David J Detlefsen; email@hidden
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Subject: Re: Insert Pages Doesn't Work In Acrobat 5.0
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At 7:14 AM -0400 10/05/01, David J Detlefsen wrote:
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>I've been using applescript (on a macintosh) to control acrobat to merge
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>pdf files. I've recently moved from 4.0 to 5.0 and have found the
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>the insert pages command doesn't work with the following error
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>message: document "mydoc" doesn't understand insert pages message".
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>Here's the script....has anybody else seen this?
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>tell application "Acrobat 4.0"
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> activate
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> open file "mydoc"
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> open file "myotherdoc"
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> insert pages document "mydoc" after 1 from
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> document "myotherdoc" starting with 1 number of
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> pages 1
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>end tell
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Yes, I'm sorry to say, I've just been bitten today. I hadn't read
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this thread when you posted it, but judging from the lack of
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responses, not too many people had tried this.
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I just moved a script I had for Acrobat 3 to a machine with 5, and
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the "insert pages" command is, as you observed, very broken. I tried
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every reference form under the sun, and nothing. Errors all round.
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The dictionary shows the syntax for that command to be exactly the
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same in both versions of Acrobat.
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