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RE: Acrobat Distiller 6.0 and AppleScript
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RE: Acrobat Distiller 6.0 and AppleScript


  • Subject: RE: Acrobat Distiller 6.0 and AppleScript
  • From: email@hidden
  • Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:54:06 +0530

Thanks. That works great.
Will this script work for Acrobat Distiller 5.0 also?

-----Original Message-----
From: Shane Stanley [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 4:05 AM
To: AS lists
Subject: Re: Acrobat Distiller 6.0 and AppleScript


On 4/10/03 4:23 AM +1000, email@hidden,
email@hidden, wrote:

> I want to distill a PS file to PDF using Adobe Acrobat Distiller 6.0
> and I am looking for a simple AppleScript. I have tried to write an
> AppleScript using the Distill command:
> Distill reference -- the object for the command
> [optional settings path]
> source path
>
> What do I need to supply for "reference"?

You need to provide a POSIX path:

set aFile to choose file
set inputFile to POSIX path of aFile
tell application "Acrobat Distiller 6.0"
Distill sourcePath inputFile
end tell

Crazy. Worse, they claim it's the right thing to do.

--
Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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