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Re: AppleScript and Acrobat 6 Professional
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Re: AppleScript and Acrobat 6 Professional


  • Subject: Re: AppleScript and Acrobat 6 Professional
  • From: Michael Johnston <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 17:17:03 +0200

With one frustrating exception: there's no way to create url hyperlinks.

Or have they addressed that in acrobat 6?

Anyway that's ok, it gave me a chance to dust off my c programming, which I hadn't done any of for years.

The plugin api seemed daunting at first, but turned out to be consistent, well-organized, and kind of fun to work with. Even though it meant programming on a windows box for the first time in my life, with Visual C++ with a German interface, which I don't really speak.

Or maybe it only seemed like fun because I'd been programming Quark Applescript for a couple weeks beforehand.

Michael

On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 01:54 PM, John C. Welch wrote:

On 8/10/03 12:27 PM, "B2 Fass-Holmes" <email@hidden> wrote:

In addition, I tried writing an AppleScript to reposition the Document
Properties window. The script returned an error "Acrobat got an error: can't
set position of windows "Document Properties to {12, 160}."

Can someone provide some pointers on how to write and AppleScript that will
manipulate the Document Properties window and its elements?

Not to be smarmy, (no really, not this time ;-), but if you want to script
Acrobat, use javascript. The AppleScript support in Acrobat is pretty bad.

Okay, REALLY bad. But the javascript support is really excellent. It's more
excellent than the plugin support.

john

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