Subject: Re: ? selecting text in a pdf page
Subject: Re: ? selecting text in a pdf page
- Subject: Subject: Re: ? selecting text in a pdf page
- From: Michael Cytrynowicz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 20:00:28 +0200
Shane,
Awesome - thanks! - this returns all text for a given page.
Can I pick your brain a bit more?
Is it possible to set a variable to _some_ selected text in _some_ given
page - without having to specify what that page is?
Mike
P.S.: I enjoy your Photoshop comments and scripts off Adobe's PS AS forum,
too!
(Shane)
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> I tried everything I could think of, plus looked in the Acrobat dictionary -
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> to no avail.
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> Is it at all possible to use applescript to select / get text from an open
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> pdf page?
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> I just wanted to rename that pdf filename using the selected text (and
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> making sure its less than, say, 127 chars) - adapting a neat script that
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> does this for Tex-Edit (OK, I know its no comparison ;-)
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It's not pretty, but:
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tell application "Acrobat 5.0"
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activate
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goto document 1 page 1
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select text AVPageView 1 of document 1 from words {1, -1}
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execute menu item 5 of menu 2
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set theText to (get the clipboard as string)
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end tell
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