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Re: printing PDF files


  • Subject: Re: printing PDF files
  • From: Håvard Graudo <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:35:30 +0100

David,

I think the 'print PDFname without shrink to fit' line is not doing what you think it does.

In Acrobat you want "print pages". The 'print' you are using is actually *Finders* 'print' command.
(You are navigating inside nested tell-blocks here ... ghosts may show up!)


You should be able to do what you want with Acrobats 'print pages' without GUI scripting.


Håvard






Den 10. nov.. 2009 kl. 15.39 skrev David DuBois:

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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