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Re: Printing PDF


  • Subject: Re: Printing PDF
  • From: Simon Topliss <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:54:09 +0000

On 10/3/03 9:26 am, "nino" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Last month there was a discussion about printing PDF on OS X using
> Ghostscript.
>
> I've been successful in defining a "PDF writer" printer that produces a pdf
> file on a given subdirectory just selecting that printer and pressing
> return. The nice part of it is that Ghostscript invocation can be modified
> to specialize the produced file just like Adobe Distiller on OS 9, so you
> can get an high resolution file for printing or a low resolution, more
> compact file for internet distribution.

How did you achieve this? There was a hint on Mac OS X Hints
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2003030215405857 that I
followed and have successfully got working. Did you use the same method or
one of your own?

> Only a small piece is missing to produce a completely automated solution and
> is this "press return" on the printing dialog box. On Os 9 I was using
> mostly Sandi's Addition Typetext to solve this problem, but I haven't found
> anything similar on Os X except for the GUI scripting that is still beta and
> cannot be used at moment on a production process.
>
> There is any "keyboard simulation" osax available on Os X?

Have you tried the UI Scripting Beta from Apple?

Simon
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