RE: automating PDF creation
RE: automating PDF creation
- Subject: RE: automating PDF creation
- From: "Wadson, David" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 12:05:38 -0400
That has been the problem - getting it to save the Postscript files without
throwing up an error -48. I believe the general workaround has been to have
the Postscript file saved to the root directory of the startup disk. Also,
Quark 4.1 has kind-of-sort-of fixed the problem but earlier versions,
including 3.32, are less likely to work. I'm sure Hans Haesler with correct
me if I'm wrong - he's been involved in just about every thread on this
subject. :-)
At our operation, we gave up on automating that part and instead just have
an Applescript that changes all the print settings to what we require (page
size, resolution, etc.) and manually do the actual print command, specify
the location to save the file and hit OK. It's a minor inconvenience
compared to how much time we save by not having to change the print settings
manually for every document we PDF (we do a lot...).
Given that it's probably beneficial to have a human opening the Quark
documents and checking them for missing fonts, art, etc., it might not be
all that inconvenient to have them print a Postscript file for Distiller
instead of fighting to automate the whole process. Once you have the PDF
file, it's relatively easy to script Acrobat to split the PDF files and name
them accordingly. The only catch is that Acrobat doesn't have a command for
scripting the extract pages command. The workaround is to take an existing
document, insert the single page that you want into it, delete the pages you
don't need and then save the document.
The scripts I mentioned (members.shaw.ca/mactech) have the data for a blank
PDF file embedded into it that the script uses to create a "shell" for
inserting the pages into. It's a clumsy workaround for the lack of a simple
command by Adobe...
As for the rest, it's simply a matter of throwing in a repeat loop that
cycles through the pages and creates the proper filenames...
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From: Rick Norman
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Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 11:32 AM
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: automating PDF creation
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The only way that I have been successful in creating the PS files out of
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Quark is by using Face Span to have the function of "click as user",
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otherwise I couldn't figure out how to get past the Print dialog boxes in
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Quark, any better suggestions on that?
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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
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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
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file
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> for each Quark doc and then break those down those into single page
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files.
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> Once you know which approach you want to take, it's not all that hard to
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do.
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> I wouldn't even bother scripting Distiller itself - just set up a
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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
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files
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> for Distiller - this list and the Quark forum on their website has
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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