Fwd: Brain Function
Fwd: Brain Function
- Subject: Fwd: Brain Function
- From: Chris Espinosa <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:36:19 -0700
If there's anybody with expertise on scripting printing in Acrobat or
Preview that could help this person, I'd be obliged.
Chris
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From: Larry Walker <email@hidden>
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Date: April 13, 2004 12:06:12 PM PDT
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To: email@hidden
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Subject: Brain Function
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Hello;
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My name is Larry Walker. I am a Macintosh computer user.
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I need help with using AppleScript.
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I have read Danny Goodman's AppleScript book on AppleScript. I have
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done all the exercises with the book as well as the tutorial exercises
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that Apple has. But I have still not been able to make my own script.
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I am mentally disabled. I guess I am beginning to realize my
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limitations. In 1999 I nearly died from meningitis. Over the last
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several years I have been finding how much brain damage actually
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occurred.
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Here is an example of what I want to be able to have an AppleScript
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do. I have a acrobat file that I want to print several pages but not
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all the pages as it is a huge 1500 page document. I want to print
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pages 1 to 145 the odd pages first and then the even pages. So that I
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can turn the paper over and use both sides of the paper. Then I want
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to print pages 278, 345, 590, 601 to 721 and then pages 997 to 1500
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odd and then even to use both sides of the paper.
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Now I imagine you are thinking, why doesn't he just go and say print
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in the application. I have tried that many times. Both in Adobe
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Acrobat and Preview. Preview doesn't allow you to print just odd or
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even pages. If you want to do that you have to print one page at a
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time. When I have used Acrobat and try to print the odd pages and
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then the even pages. It always messes things up. I tell it to print
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page 14 and it prints page 567. I tell Acrobat to print pages 13 to
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24 and it prints the entire file. I would image that you are saying
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that I need to go to Adobe and ask them for help. I have already done
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that and gotten no-where.
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I am wondering if there are a bunch of scripts that someone has
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already made that I could use and just change a little? Please keep
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in mind that things have to be kept simple as my brain cannot handle
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anything complex.
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Please let me know if you have any ideas on what I can do or if you
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have any scripts that you could share with me that would be easy for
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me to edit.
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Thank you so much!!
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Have a happy day!
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Larry
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