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Re: Acrobat 6 "do script" problem...
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Re: Acrobat 6 "do script" problem...


  • Subject: Re: Acrobat 6 "do script" problem...
  • From: Hanaan Rosenthal <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:46:38 -0500
  • Organization: Custom Flow Solutions

A little formatting issue:

set theString to +class ktxt; of (theText as record)

should be:

set theString to <<class ktxt>> of (theText as record)

You get these brackets by clicking opt-\ and opt-shift-\


>
> From: Hanaan Rosenthal <email@hidden>
> Date: 2003/11/11 Tue PM 02:11:57 EST
> To: Nigel Smith <email@hidden>, applescript-
email@hidden
> Subject: Re: Acrobat 6 "do script" problem...
>
> Here we go:
>
> When you ask for posix path of the result you get is in styled text, and
> therefore the entire string is in styled text.
> Acrobat JAVASCRIPTT seems to choke on that.
>
> Here's a little routine to pass your string through:
>
> set f2 to get_string_of_styled_text(f2)
>
> on get_string_of_styled_text(theText)
> try
> set theString to +class ktxt; of (theText as record)
> return theString
> on error
> return theText
> end try
> end get_string_of_styled_text
>
>
>
> >
> > Gurus,
> >
> > Can anyone explain what is going on with this script? Mac OSX
Panther
> and
> > Acrobat 6 Pro -- if you have Acrobat's JavaScript Debugger window
> open you
> > will see the output:
> >
> > -------------
> > set f1 to "/"
> > set f2 to POSIX path of ":" as string
> >
> > set script1 to "var f = \"" & f1 & "\";console.println(f);"
> > set script2 to "var f = \"" & f2 & "\";console.println(f);"
> >
> > tell application "Acrobat 6.0 Professional"
> > do script script1
> > do script script2
> > end tell
> > -------------
> >
> > Why does "script1" complete, but "script2" error? This is totally
> > reproducable OMM -- any file path generated as per line 2 above
will
> error,
> > the same path typed or pasted in will work.
> >
> > Failing that, how do you get the front document in Acrobat using
> JavaScript
> > rather than AS? This is to do with Ian's XML export problem in his
> > "Applescripts for Acrobat 6.0" email.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Nigel
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