Re: print
Re: print
- Subject: Re: print
- From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:06:32 +1100
on 24/02/2004 07:51, Nelson Byrne at email@hidden wrote:
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Apologies for bothering the list with such a stupid question.
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How can I use AppleScript 1.9.3 (OS X.3.2) to print a PDF file?
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Finder is scriptable and shows a print command in its Standard Suite,
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but Finder ignores it.
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Preview opens it if I ask Finder to do so, and will print it if I click
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the right buttons, but Preview is not scriptable.
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TextEdit will accept an AppleScript order to print it, but it comes out
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as textual garbage since TextEdit doesn't know PDF.
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I can drag and drop the file on Printer Setup Utility and it prints
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just fine. PSU is scriptable, too - but telling PSU to print the file
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does not work - nothing happens, same as telling Finder to print it.
Use 'do shell script' to print pdf files.
eg.
do shell script "lp -d myprinter ~/Documents/my.pdf"
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Matthew Smith
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