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Re: Saving AppleWorks as PDF (Applescript-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 92)
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Re: Saving AppleWorks as PDF (Applescript-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 92)


  • Subject: Re: Saving AppleWorks as PDF (Applescript-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 92)
  • From: Jonathan Levi MD <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:05:05 -0500

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:36:50 -0500, doug rogers <email@hidden> wrote:
On Feb 8, 2005, at 3:01 PM, email@hidden
wrote [I don't know who posted originally]:

I have 5 years worth of weekly reports that I would like to convert to
 >> pdf.
 >> Most are AppleWorks although some early ones are Corel Word Perfect.

Idea for a solution (concept only, no gory details provided)
1. Write a script to save AppleWorks files as PDF. It might be possible to script this directly, I don't know. AppleWorks.asdictionary says:


  save: Save a document
    save  document  -- the document to save
      [in  alias]  -- the file in which to save the document
      [as file type  type class]  -- the type of file in which to
        save the document (e.g., PICT, TEXT, MW2D)

I don't know whether that "e.g." includes PDF as well -- maybe some others on this list know. If not, then the same could be accomplished, with much more slogging, by using System Events on the Print dialog. (You don't need System Events for the first step; this much un-gory detail does follow:

  tell application "AppleWorks 6"
	activate
	print document 1 with print dialog
  end tell
)

2. Script MacLink Plus to convert your WordPerfect files to AppleWorks, then apply step 1. This I currently do with WordPerfect documents that one source sends me regularly.
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