Re: GUIscritpting, Pages and PDF
Re: GUIscritpting, Pages and PDF
- Subject: Re: GUIscritpting, Pages and PDF
- From: "EU - Luca Pozzato" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:41:38 +0100
-----Original Message-----
From: KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden>
To: AppleScript <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:05:28 +0100
Subject: Re: GUIscritpting, Pages and PDF
>
> Le 25 janv. 2008 à 06:26, CYB a écrit :
>
> > Yvan, whwy not use this
> > -- AppleScript
> > tell application "Printer Setup Utility"
> > set current printer to printer "CUPS-PDF"
> > end tell
> > tell application "Pages"
> > tell document 1
> > print
> > end tell
> > end tell
> > -- end of AppleScript
> > The only thing you need is to install the free app printer "CUPS-PDF"
> > This application is a virtual printer that in an efficient way
> "print"
> > anything to PDF is an open source, the linl to download is
> > http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20219
> > I hope this help
> >
> > Salute
> >
>
> Back to my problems with Pages and PDF.
>
> i installed the CUPS-PDF driver.
> It appears in the Print Dialog as "Virtual printer"
>
> I'm trying to use it to print each page of a document in a single file.
> I know that I will have to rename the PDF because the driver will use
> the same name for every page.
>
> reduced to a minimal one the script is:
>
> (* the file myFile.pages is open *)
>
> set p to 3
> tell application "Printer Setup Utility"
> set oldPrinter to name of current printer
> set current printer to printer "Virtual Printer"
> end tell
>
> tell application "Pages"
> activate
> set pd1 to (path of document 1) (* gives an UNIX path *)
> set pd1 to pd1 as POSIX file (* switch to HFS path *)
> print pd1 with properties {starting page:p, ending page:p}
> end tell
>
> tell application "Printer Setup Utility" to set current printer to
> printer oldPrinter
>
>
> At this time I met two problems.
>
> a -- it doesn't print only the page 3 but the 6 pages of the document.
>
> b -- the PDF file appears as myFile.pdf on the Desktop while
> when done "by hand" I get a file named _myFile_.pdf in a folder
> named "cups-pdf" on the desktop.
>
> Help welcome.
>
> Yvan KOENIG _______________________________________________
hi Yvan,
Why do not print all pages and then split in single documents?
I’m quite happy with pdftk http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/, but for sure there are several
ways to achieve the same result.
Luca
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