Re: AppleScript and Acrobat 6 Professional
Re: AppleScript and Acrobat 6 Professional
- Subject: Re: AppleScript and Acrobat 6 Professional
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 07:54:01 -0400
On 8/10/03 12:27 PM, "B2 Fass-Holmes" <email@hidden> wrote:
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In addition, I tried writing an AppleScript to reposition the Document
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Properties window. The script returned an error "Acrobat got an error: can't
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set position of windows "Document Properties to {12, 160}."
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Can someone provide some pointers on how to write and AppleScript that will
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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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