Re: Print-to-PDF
Re: Print-to-PDF
- Subject: Re: Print-to-PDF
- From: Michael Ghilissen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 04:52:40 -0500
Not knowing the specifics of your needs and your environment, I
submit an example of a script I use to create PDF from a Word
document, using System Events.
This will get your starting, hopefully.
Michael Ghilissen
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(*
Word2PDF - June 2007
- If you use the built-in print-to-PDF feature of Mac OS X for an MS
Word document with multiple sections, you will get multiple PDFs, one
per section. Preview will generate a single PDF file with the correct
page layouts. And that does the trick as Preview's GUI can be
scripted! So my script has two sections: the first one, in Word, that
gets the document and the file's name and then calls Preview; the
second one, in Preview, that formats the pdf document and saves it.
- You need to include delays long enough for the script to keep up
with the pace (machine's speed and document's size) - or the script
will crash, so experiment with changing the delays to a comfortable
level - YMMV.
- The script is obviously dependent on the versions of OS X,
Microsoft Word and Preview.
*)
tell application "Microsoft Word" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Microsoft Word"
click menu item "Print..." of menu "File" of menu bar item "File"
of menu bar 1
delay 0.5
click button 4 of UI element 5 of window 1
end tell
end tell
--
delay 1
--
tell application "Preview" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Preview"
click menu item "Print…" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu
bar 1
delay 0.5
click at position of UI element 1 of UI element 6 of UI element 4
of sheet 1 of window 1
delay 0.2
-- key the down arrow and space bar to select the first item in the
"PDF" menu ("Save as PDF…"), and wait for the Save dialog to appear.
key code {125, 49}
delay 1
-- if new file name is needed, enter the pdf name into the Save
dialog's text field
set value of text field 1 of window 1 to "test2.pdf"
delay 0.5
-- use Control-d to set the desktop as the destination
keystroke "d" using command down
delay 0.5
click button "Save" of window "Save"
delay 0.2
end tell
end tell
On Nov 6, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Tim Verscheure wrote:
Dear list,
Is it possible to use the print-to-pdf function from OS X in
applescripting. I've searched in the libraries of applescript but
couldn't find anything.
Maybe there's a work-around?
greetz
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