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Re: UI Scripting of Acrobat Pro
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Re: UI Scripting of Acrobat Pro


  • Subject: Re: UI Scripting of Acrobat Pro
  • From: Jan Bultereys <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:18:46 +0200
  • Thread-topic: UI Scripting of Acrobat Pro

Title: Re: UI Scripting of Acrobat Pro
Hi Rob,

Bill’s option should work to add a delay, i have added to close the file after the saving.
I hope this is the solution you are looking for.

tell application "Adobe Acrobat Professional"
    activate
end
tell

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Adobe Acrobat Professional"
        tell menu bar 1
            tell menu bar item "Comments"
                tell menu 1
                    click menu item "Enable for Commenting in Adobe Reader..."
                end tell
           end tell
       end tell
       
        tell window "Save As"
            click button "Save"
        end tell
       delay 1
        tell window 1
            click button "Replace"
        end tell
   end tell
   delay 2
    keystroke "w" using command down
end
tell


From: Rob Stott <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:41:20 +0100
To: Applescript Mailing List <email@hidden>
Subject: UI Scripting of Acrobat Pro

Hi all,

I'm so close yet so far with a script! I'm trying to enable a pdf for commenting in Acrobat Reader. Sadly, I have to use UI Scripting for this (Yes, I know its not nice, but I can't see any other way!) and I'm running into problems. 

I can do everything I need *except* click the 'replace' button in the final dialog box (to overwrite the old file). Can anyone suggest how to do this? Here's my script as it stands at the moment.

--running Acrobat 8 Pro

tell
application "Adobe Acrobat Professional"
activate
end
tell


tell
application "System Events"
tell
process "Adobe Acrobat Professional"
tell
menu bar 1
tell
menu bar item "Comments"
tell
menu 1
click menu item "Enable for Commenting in Adobe Reader..."
end tell
end
tell
end
tell


--a save as dialog pops up, so we click the save button



tell window "Save As"
click button "Save"
end tell

--works fine up to here, where I want to click the 'Replace" button to overwrite the old file

tell
window 1
click button "Replace"
end tell



end tell
end
tell


...any suggestions and help much appreciated!

Thanks
Rob


 


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