RE: Save EPS page from Acrobat
RE: Save EPS page from Acrobat
- Subject: RE: Save EPS page from Acrobat
- From: "Grimm, Kenneth" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:27:31 -0500
It has been my experience that Distiller uses the last job options when
manually set -- regardless of what your script tells it to use. However, if
the job options of the script don't exist if specified, it barfs, but then
happily proceeds to ignore them.
Distiller 4 or 5 does this OMM.
Ken
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 9:33 AM
> To: AppleScript
> Subject: Re: Save EPS page from Acrobat
>
> The script lets you choose a folder full of PDF files and it goes
> through them and exports EPS files. The actual EPS export settings are
> the settings that were last used when manually saving as an EPS. I would
> imagine you can specify the settings to use for
> EPSConversion/PSConversion in the script, but I haven't bothered trying
> that yet...
>
> Dave Wadson
> IT Manager
> The Chronicle-Journal
>
> property sourceFolder : ""
> property processedFolder : ""
> property EPSFolder : ""
>
> if sourceFolder is "" then
> set sourceFolder to choose folder with prompt "Pick the PDF
> source folder."
> end if
> if processedFolder is "" then
> set processedFolder to choose folder with prompt "Pick the
> folder for processed PDF files."
> end if
> if EPSFolder is "" then
> set EPSFolder to choose folder with prompt "Pick destination
> folder for the EPS files."
> end if
>
> tell application "Finder"
> set filesToProcess to every file of sourceFolder whose file type
> is "PDF "
> end tell
> repeat with currentFile in filesToProcess
> set currentFileName to name of currentFile
> set currentFileShortName to characters 1 thru -5 of
> currentFileName
> set EPSFileName to (currentFileShortName & ".eps") as string
> set EPSFilePath to (EPSFolder & EPSFileName) as string
> tell application "Acrobat 6.0.1 Professional"
> open currentFile
> save document currentFileName to file EPSFilePath using
> EPS Conversion
> close document currentFileName
> end tell
> tell application "Finder"
> move currentFile to processedFolder with replacing
> end tell
>
> end repeat
>
>
>
> On Nov 16, 2004, at 6:09 AM, Tim Mansour wrote:
>
>
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how I write an
> > AppleScript to save each page of a PDF from Acrobat as an EPS? I seem
> > to recall I have to create an "EPS Conversion" and save using this,
> > but can't quite figure out the syntax.
> >
> > Or for that matter, any suggestions as to how to do this using
> > something other than Acrobat would also be appreciated.
> >
> > --
> > Tim Mansour <email@hidden>
> >
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