Re: Export to a PDF from Quark
Re: Export to a PDF from Quark
- Subject: Re: Export to a PDF from Quark
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 09:30:58 +1100
On 1/2/02 4:48 AM +1000, W. Kirk Lutz, email@hidden, wrote:
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I'm new to the Applescript Emailing thing, but I have a scripting question
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I'm hoping someone can help me with. I've been working on a script for the
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last couple of days that will take a Quark document and make it into a JPEG
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web graphic. It works, sort of. My problem is that I save it as an EPS and
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sometimes Photoshop doesn't want to open(can't parse) an EPS. If I could
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save it as a PDF to my hard drive and then run the Photoshop Action on it,
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it would work much better.
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Can Exporting from Quark to PDF be scripted? If not, can changing the
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chooser to PDFwriter and then printing from Quark be scripted?
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If all of the above don't work how about saving an EPS to my startup disk? I
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can't seem to get that AppleScript down.
If you want reliable PDFs, you need to use Acrobat Distiller, not PDF
Writer.
One method is to save your EPS files, then tell Distiller to make them into
PDFs.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden