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