RE: Need help creating this script
RE: Need help creating this script
- Subject: RE: Need help creating this script
- From: "Wadson, David" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:05:15 -0400
If you're going to put the script onto a Mac that watches a networked
folder, you're going to have to throw in a bunch of error trapping for deal
with missing fonts or artwork or make sure that those are available for
every file that you throw at it.
We just use two scripts that we call through OSAMenu using hotkeys. One for
our laser printer which analyses the Quark document and determines whether
to use letter or tabloid paper. And we have another script which changes the
page setup (using the actual width of the Quark docuent instead of 8.5" or
6") to print to a Postscript file for Acrobat Distiller. We also threw a
couple of lines into the script that convert all spot colors to process.
There might be a point with this project where you make a script more
complicated than necessary in order to try to take the user totally out of
the picture. If someone has to look at each file to determine which script
or folder to put it into, they might as well have just called the
appropriate script themself. Same thing for the fonts and art issue.
We found that the major convenience and time saving came from not having to
manually change the page setup options every time you needed to print a file
to a different device.
David Wadson
Coordinator of Graphic Services
The Chronicle-Journal
807-343-6264
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From: Greg Robb
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Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:17 PM
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: Need help creating this script
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Hi Ari,
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It looks like your script sets the page width, the name and then prints to
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postscript. But the page width and the name are known by the operator.
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You could make two scripts as folder actions. One for 8.5" wide pages and
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one for 6" pages. If the operator knows if the file is a "As Printed PDF"
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or
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not, without opening it, you can leave out the Quark file naming check in
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the scripts. Just add the instruction to the operator to name the file
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before dropping it in the hot folder.
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Have the folders on your network watched by another Mac with the scripts.
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Then you only need to be sure you have the Quark file named correctly
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before
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putting it in one of the folders. The other Mac will run the scripts.
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-Greg Robb
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