Comment on Creating PDF Files
Comment on Creating PDF Files
- Subject: Comment on Creating PDF Files
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:00:30 -0500
It is often desirable and even necessary to create a copy of a document in pdf format.
And "Save as PDF..." has been a standard feature of the Print dialog for a very long time.
The problem with this arrangement is GUI-scripting. (As evidenced by the many questions about how to do this.)
Yesterday, while looking at the file formats available in various text applications, I noticed that TextEdit has a "Save as PDF..." item in the File menu. This simplifies GUI-scripting, but if there is a menu item, then perhaps there is an AppleScript command for this in TextEdit.
So, I looked at TextEdit's dictionary. ... Nothing there!
If "print to pdf" is a standard feature of Print (and it is), then it should also be a standard feature of AppleScript. Any application that can open a document and print it to pdf should have:
1. A "Save as PDF..." item in its File menu; and
2. A "saveaspdf" command in it's AppleScript dictionary.
My problem is that the documents I need to "saveaspdf" can't be correctly opened with TextEdit.
AppleScript seems to be suffering from lack of attention ... bugs not fixed and no new features.
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