Re: Print to PDF

Subject: Re: Print to PDF
From: Joe <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:37:43 -0800

On Jan 9, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:

Every once in a while I like to show off what GUI Scripting can do.

Open a test window in TextEdit, then run this script:

activate application "TextEdit"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "TextEdit"
-- insert GUI Scripting statements here
keystroke "p" using command down
set PDFButton to menu button "PDF" of sheet 1 of window 1
click PDFButton
click menu item "Save As PDF…" of menu 1 of PDFButton
delay 1
click button "Save" of window 1
end tell
end tell

The ellipsis in "Save as PDF..." is the ellipsis character, not three periods.

Filling in the Name field of the Save dialog is left as an exercise.

This runs on Mac OS X 10.7.2 Lion. I vaguely recall that I wrote a script just like this once before, so it probably works on earlier versions, too.

Thank you for that little gem Bill. It works in many applications, so I added a line to make it work from the Scripts menu and assigned it a hotkey with FastScripts.

Now I can generate a PDF from any application (that I've tested so far) that supports printing with a keystroke combo.

tell application "System Events"

set appname to name of first process whose frontmost is true

end tell

activate application appname

tell application "System Events"

tell process appname

keystroke "p" using command down

set PDFButton to menu button "PDF" of sheet 1 of window 1

click PDFButton

click menu item "Save As PDF…" of menu 1 of PDFButton

delay 1

click button "Save" of window 1

end tell

Joe

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