Re: print
Re: print
- Subject: Re: print
- From: Steven Majewski <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:50:12 -0500
On Feb 23, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Nelson Byrne wrote:
Apologies for bothering the list with such a stupid question.
How can I use AppleScript 1.9.3 (OS X.3.2) to print a PDF file?
Finder is scriptable and shows a print command in its Standard Suite,
but Finder ignores it.
Preview opens it if I ask Finder to do so, and will print it if I
click the right buttons, but Preview is not scriptable.
TextEdit will accept an AppleScript order to print it, but it comes
out as textual garbage since TextEdit doesn't know PDF.
I can drag and drop the file on Printer Setup Utility and it prints
just fine. PSU is scriptable, too - but telling PSU to print the file
does not work - nothing happens, same as telling Finder to print it.
lpr seems to know what to do with .pdf & .ps files. You could use:
do shell script "lpr " & (quoted form of posix path of theFile )
but on a hunch, I tried telling Printer Setup Utility to 'open' the
file, and that
seems to cause it to print. Why telling it to print doesn't work, I
have no idea.
-- Steve Majewski
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