Getting FMP to print to .ps via AppleScript
Getting FMP to print to .ps via AppleScript
- Subject: Getting FMP to print to .ps via AppleScript
- From: OzSprings <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:20:45 +0000
FMP has supposedly an inbuilt recording function which records a
printing process which I can make permanent by immediately creating
an FMP script for printing. Unfortunately this does not work properly
with printing to .pdf or .ps. FMP forgets the .ps filename, or
invents one of its own, and I need to have a stable file name so that
FMP can have the .pdf attached to an automatic email. I have five
different .pdfs per record. I am creating postscript files in a
watched folder on the desktop which Distiller recreates as .pdfs.
I have therefore been trying to create the .ps using Applescript but
without much success. According to the FMP AppleScript dictionary, I
can state print [reference] -- The object to print, but everytime I
state an object (current record, layout ["name"], of filename, etc.,
and it compiles I get a message saying something like the script
can't coerce; or identifier stated where there should be an end of
line. I cannot state "PostScript" anywhere, even though I can do this
when printing a Quark document via AppleScript.
My script is:
set printer to "PS Printer" [this is a desktop printer in LaserWriter
8 I created specifically to make .ps files using Distiller as the
printer driver]
set filename to "Mac HD:Desktop Folder:pdf:in:Annual_data"&".ps" as text
tell application "FileMaker Developer"
activate
print current record [or one of the variations mentioned above eg
"print current layout of current record of document "Reports"]
end tell
I have searched through the filemaker.com tech support documents,
AppleScript for Applications, Applescript in a Nutshell, the FMP
Blueworld archives, but I cannot find anything which can help and at
this stage my AppleScript knowledge is pretty woeful.
Thanks for any help
(in desperation)
Oz
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