Re: Printing Help
Re: Printing Help
- Subject: Re: Printing Help
- From: "Paul Bunch"<email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:14:06 GMT
Hi John,
I have been trying to get some help with this kind of issue on OS X for a few
weeks now, though without success. It seems that no one knows if or how it is
possible to control dialogs using AppleScript.
If you're using Office:mac there is VBA, where you can include the settings as
parameters for the print command, but a lot of apps just don't provide the
support for this and Apple haven't posted anything obvious that covers the need.
The bottom line is that it's up to the application vendor support the necessary
event in thier scripting support (e.g. print [copies <n>][without dialog]. I
dont know which app you're using to print your PDFs, but I can tell you that
Acrobat Reader 5 appears to have no AS dictionary (so presumably has no AS
support) and niether does the OS X Preview app. It may be that AS support is
included in the fully featured Acrobat PDF publishing/editing app, but I don't
yet have a copy so I can't say.
If you're in OS 9 you can use KeyQuencer <
http://www.binarysoft.com/kqmac/kqmac.html#top >, or PrefabPlayer <
http://www.prefab.com/player.html > to gain access to otherwise unscriptable
apps and user interface controls.
I hope this is useful to you and please post any other solutions you find, as
I'd love to conquer this problem in OS X also.
Regards
Paul Bunch
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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 12:06:51 -0500
From: "John Tuttle" <email@hidden>
To: email@hidden
Subject: Printing help
I've been scratchin' my head trying to figure out hw to get better printing
control via applescript. I'm attempting to print PDF files and would like
to automate a quantity setting as well as just simply having the file print
without a dialog box stopping the process.
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John Tuttle
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