Acrobat Scripting
Acrobat Scripting
- Subject: Acrobat Scripting
- From: "Vanderlinden, Thomas M." <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:50:05 -0400
good morning - - - -
I will forward these comments to a
pdf for pre-press discussion list
which includes users and developers
of pdf pre-press techniques.
If I get any useful responses,
I'll let you know.
- - - Tom Vanderlinden
email@hidden
Bridgeport National Bindery
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Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 14:26 Uhr
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Subject: applescript-users digest, Vol 2 #1138 - 15 msgs
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:23:12 -0400
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To: email@hidden
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From: Bob Anderson <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Acrobat Scripting
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>Message: 3
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>Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 12:58:08 +1000
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>Subject: Re: Acrobat Scripting
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>From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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>To: AS lists <email@hidden>
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>On 29/9/01 10:34 AM +1000, Bob Anderson, email@hidden, wrote:
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>>> From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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>>> But it does let you export via script...
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>> If this is true, perhaps you can tell me how to
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>> Export a PostScript file from Acrobat 5.0 and
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>> control the Settings for:
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>You can't. All you can script is the actual export -- it uses the
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settings
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>last used in the UI. I suppose you could always swap prefs files, and do
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it
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>that way.
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>OTOH, in v4 you couldn't even script the export.
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* In Acrobat 4.0, I script Export with Prefab Player.
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* In Acrobat 4.0, I can script insert pages, 5.0 will not.
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* In Acrobat 4.0, I get PostScript files that print, 5.0 generates
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PostScript files that hang the printer.
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* Distiller 4.0 is compatible with Suitcase, 5.0 is not.
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Conclusion: Acrobat 5.0 had little or no QA performed
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for prepress type operations.
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The only thing I have found good in Acrobat 5.0 is a
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bug fix for math fonts in Adept Publisher and related
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products. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't use 5.0
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at all.
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Regards,
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Bob Anderson