Re: Tiger broke my Excel->PDF Script
Re: Tiger broke my Excel->PDF Script
- Subject: Re: Tiger broke my Excel->PDF Script
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 05:09:22 -0500
- Thread-topic: Tiger broke my Excel->PDF Script
on 2005-11-22 7:26 PM, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
> On 11/22/05 3:01 PM, "Larry McMunn" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> The "Save As PDF" button is now "PDF" and has a
>> pop up menu with multiple items.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas on how to do this in Tiger?
>
> I tried for a long time the other day, using UI Browser. There's no way to
> do it that I can see. You can't get that popup to display via GUI scripting.
The "PDF" button does not conform to the requirements of the accessibility
API. This affects the print sheet or dialog in every application, since it
is supplied by the system.
This means that the contents of the menu that pops up when you click the PDF
button manually are unavailable to UI Browser, to Apple's UI Element
Inspector, to GUI Scripting, or to VoiceOver (though I haven't actually
tried that last one).
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Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
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