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: Arthur J Knapp <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 10:40:47 -0400
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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 09:34:14 +0100
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Subject: Re: Insert Pages Doesn't Work In Acrobat 5.0
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From: Guy Parker <email@hidden>
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I think Acrobat 5 is great BUT in my experience it's AppleScript sucks!
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The dictionary is almost identical to v4 but so many pre-v5 scripts fail
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completely. I got so frustrated I started to use JavaScript to do the work
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and rely on the (single?) new addition to the dictionary "do script".
Great!!! I recently finished a large project involving Acrobat 4, and I
would have killed for a "do script" command.
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There is a command insertPages and the Acrobat JavaScript Guide is fairly
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good. (I'm sure you don't really want the suggestion of "use JS not AS!").
You've talked me into it, I'm going to have to get v5. My experiences
with Acrobat's JavaScript under version 4 were rather frustrating, but
they were better than my experiences with Acrobat's AppleScript.
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The cynic in me would say that it looks so much like Adobe turning their
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back on AppleScript in favor of JavaScript. I hope that's not the case and
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would love to see an Acrobat 5.x with AppleScript that works as described.
I'm with you, brother... :)
In fact, it would be nice if the Acrobt AppleScript model could be used
to increase one's ability to work with JavaScript. I kept wishing for a
simple AppleScript command that would let me update the contents of a
document-level JavaScript, rather than having to go through all of the
menu selections and mouse clicks nessesary to paste in a new one.
Arthur J. Knapp
http://www.stellarvisions.com
mailto:email@hidden
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http://www.latenightsw.com/freeware/JavaScriptOSA/