Re: pdf workflow scripts and /Library/PDF Services folder
Re: pdf workflow scripts and /Library/PDF Services folder
- Subject: Re: pdf workflow scripts and /Library/PDF Services folder
- From: Matthew Smith <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 16:12:35 +1100
on 06/01/2004 15:43, leo at email@hidden wrote:
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i want to print pages to a growing file (which i eventually physically will
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print via a 2 pages per sheet option).
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on the apple site i found http://www.apple.com/applescript/print mentioning
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the /Library/PDF Services folder.
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on the website's screen shot are lots of entries in the print dialog -- my
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(self created) folder is empty. ;-) where do i get the wbesite's demo
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applescript services from?
Those items in the menu are not demo scripts, especially as some require
certain applications to work. Some are also not scripts, they can be aliases
to folders and applications. The example code on the web page is the only
demonstration I know of how it works, when using AppleScript.
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and does anybody known of a script putting multiple PDF files together or
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appending one PDF to another?
PDF Services allows you to post-process a PDF created using this facility.
This does not give you the tools to do any manipulation of the PDF file. It
just give you the facility to choose the script, application or whatever
which will then run.
I don't think Mac OS X provides any tools for doing much manipulation of PDF
files. You may need Adobe Acrobat. I don't have it, so I am not sure.
If you did have tools to do this, then the way you would use PDF services
would be to save PDF files of each page to a specific folder. Later you
would run another script to join them together in order to print them as you
want. I don't think you would want to join them as you go along. You may
want to change one and would need a way to replace a page in the large PDF.
--
Matthew Smith
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