Re: printing PDF files
Re: printing PDF files
- Subject: Re: printing PDF files
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:42:32 -0800
I'm kind of surprised you need Acrobat. Try 'do shell script "lpr my.pdf"'.
--Chris N.
On Nov 10, 2009, at 7:36 AM, email@hidden wrote:
> I'm kind of surprised you need GUI scripting to print a PDF, what version of Acrobat are you using? ...
>
> On Nov 10, 2009, at 6:39am, David DuBois wrote:
>
>> I am trying to write a folder action that will print any pdf that is dropped into it. It basically works except that I cannot get it past the print dialog, even with a systems event to press the print key. If I use the system event by itself with an open print dialog, it will press the print key, but when I include it in a larger script, it stops working.
>>
>> What I have is basically:
>>
>> on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
>> tell application "Finder"
>> try
>> repeat with this_item in added_items
>> set PDFname to the name of file this_item
>> tell application "Adobe Acrobat Professional"
>> activate
>> open PDFname
>> print PDFname without shrink to fit
>> tell application "System Events"
>> tell process "Acrobat"
>> click button "Print" of window "Print"
>> end tell
>> end tell
>> close document PDFname saving no
>> end tell
>> end repeat
>> end try
>>
>> end tell
>> end adding folder items to
>>
>> Any suggestions?
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