Re: Acrobat Scripting
Re: Acrobat Scripting
- Subject: Re: Acrobat Scripting
- From: Bob Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:23:12 -0400
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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 settings
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last used in the UI. I suppose you could always swap prefs files, and do 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.
* In Acrobat 4.0, I can script insert pages, 5.0 will not.
* In Acrobat 4.0, I get PostScript files that print, 5.0 generates
PostScript files that hang the printer.
* Distiller 4.0 is compatible with Suitcase, 5.0 is not.
Conclusion: Acrobat 5.0 had little or no QA performed
for prepress type operations.
The only thing I have found good in Acrobat 5.0 is a
bug fix for math fonts in Adept Publisher and related
products. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't use 5.0
at all.
Regards,
Bob Anderson