Re: automating PDF creation
Re: automating PDF creation
- Subject: Re: automating PDF creation
- From: Rick Norman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 10:32:28 -0500
The only way that I have been successful in creating the PS files out of
Quark is by using Face Span to have the function of "click as user",
otherwise I couldn't figure out how to get past the Print dialog boxes in
Quark, any better suggestions on that?
Rick Norman
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From: "Wadson, David" <email@hidden>
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:23:23 -0400
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To: "'Applescript'" <email@hidden>
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Subject: RE: automating PDF creation
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I have some scripts at members.shaw.ca/mactech that can split split and
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merge PDF files. Depends on what approach you want to take. You could have
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Quark create a separate Postscript file for each page and have Distiller
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create single page PDF files from each one. Or you could create a PDF file
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for each Quark doc and then break those down those into single page files.
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Once you know which approach you want to take, it's not all that hard to do.
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I wouldn't even bother scripting Distiller itself - just set up a Watched
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Folder with the necessary job options.
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There are some issues with getting Quark to properly save Postscript files
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for Distiller - this list and the Quark forum on their website has numerous
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discussion of it...
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> From: Rick Norman
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> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 11:01 AM
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> To: email@hidden
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> Subject: automating PDF creation
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> Scenario: I will be receiving approximately 20 Quark docs (10 pages ea.).
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> The challenge is being able to automate the creation of single page PDF
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> files using specific "job options" settings in Distiller and having them
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> named in a manner that has nothing to do with the present name. Is this
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> possible? Just for example the documents are named like "Docname 1-10",
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> "Docname 11-20" and so on, and so page one of the first doc needs to be
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> named "MA001_F563" and page two "MA002_F563" and so on. This is the only
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> part of the process that I am not sure how to do, as far as having the
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> files
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> moved to other locations for creating proofs and uploading to the printing
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> companies FTP site, no problem. Any help is greatly appreciated,
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> Rick Norman
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