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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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