Fw: Referencing the Print window in InDesign
Fw: Referencing the Print window in InDesign
- Subject: Fw: Referencing the Print window in InDesign
- From: Brett Conlon <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:45:57 +1100
Daing it!
The below issue is kinda back to haunt
me. I have the new InDesign script I wrote working beautifully on my G4
Laptop (10.4.10) but when I ran it on a studio Mac (10.3.9) to test it
the script was choking on the "repeat" waiting for the "Print"
window to appear.
I then took it to another Mac (also
10.3.9) and it was having the same issue. When I took it to a third Mac
(this one running 10.4.8) the script ran through completely as it did on
mine.
It seems that any of the System Events
calls to window elements in InDesign on 10.3.x are failing. If I run the
following script on a 10.3 setup it errors with the NSReceiverEvaluation...4
error. If I run it on a 10.4.x setup it works:
tell
application
"Adobe InDesign CS2"
tell
application
"System Events"
tell
process
"InDesign"
set
wcount
to
count
of
windows
end
tell
end
tell
end
tell
However, keystroking "p" works...
just nothing else from there. Does anyone else have the same probs?
The reason I'm printing to PDF is that
the client wants all PDF's sent to them for approval as A4 size. I've written
the script to test for the page size and shrink-to-fit if larger than A4
and leave it as-is if smaller. If I export to PDF I have no control over
the size of it (as far as I can see) so I'm forced to PRINT to PDF. Our
HiRes Pre-Press PDFs are exported as 100% size though.
I know the client can simply print the
PDF at their end fit-to-paper but they don't want this option because they
have a pretty tight email box size restriction so our large poster PDF
files, even though printed as low-res, cause delivery failures. The only
other option I can think of is to direct the script to print a PostScript
file into a Distiller watched folder but that requires launching Distiller
and so far we've been able to create all PDF files without having to launch
it (extra time launching and extra RAM usage).
All suggestions most welcome.
Coj
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| Brett Conlon/HU/AU/SonyDADC
12/07/07 01:06 PM
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Hi Shane,
Thanks again for your input!
Bringing up the print window is the
easy part... actually I may have just stumbled on what my problem was...
My initial tests for the Print window
wasn't inside the "system events" tell block, therefore it was
only recognising the document windows open in InDesign. Using the below
script I get the Print window appearing and the "Printer..."
button presses but, however, no Apple Print window appears, so I may have
to do like what I do in the Quark Print window and use Extra Suites to
move mouse and click. When I include "set wcount to count of windows"
under the click button line it now includes the Print window in the count.
tell
application
"Adobe InDesign CS2"
activate
tell
application
"System Events"
tell
process
"InDesign"
keystroke
"p" using
{command down}
repeat
until
exists
(window
"Print")
end
repeat
click
button
"Printer..." of
window
"Print"
end
tell
end
tell
end
tell
Cheers,
Coj
| Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
12/07/07 12:07 PM
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On 12/7/07 10:48 AM, "Brett Conlon" <email@hidden>
wrote:
> However, when I update my Xerox Splash RIP script to include
> InDesign I will have the same need - to access Apple's Print window
so
> that I can change the presets depending on what is needed at the Splash
> RIP (eg. duplexing, thick stock, colour management etc.).
Good luck. You might see if you can get around it by using different PPDs,
or some kind of pdfmrk file -- anything but GUI scripting.
Theoretically, you should be able to bring up ID's print dialog with:
select menu item "Print..." of submenu "File"
of menu 1
However, it seems to bring it up and hit Print immediately.
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<http://scriptingmatters.com/aspro>
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