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Re: Print to PDF

  • Subject: Re: Print to PDF
  • From: email@hidden
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:46:50 -0500
If you can output a postscript file from your app, try using pstopdf:

    do shell script "pstopdf " & [thePostscriptFileName] & " -o " & [thePDFname]

It's pretty quick and handy. I use this all the time to make PDFs of basic text input (piped from stdin using enscript).  --Stefan



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Date: 01/09/2012 09:38 PM
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Today's Topics:

  1. Print to PDF (R. Nelson Byrne)
  2. Re: Print to PDF (Luther Fuller)
  3. Re: Print to PDF (Mike Matthews)
  4. Re: Print to PDF (Bill Cheeseman)
  5. Re: Print to PDF (email@hidden)
  6. Re: Print to PDF (Alex Zavatone)
  7. Re: Print to PDF (Rick Gordon)
  8. Re: Print to PDF (Joe)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:48:33 -0800
From: "R. Nelson Byrne" <email@hidden>
Subject: Print to PDF
To: email@hidden
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Is there a way using AppleScript or Automator to print to PDF?

In the old days there was an Adobe program that emulated a printer, not quite the same thing and as far as I know no longer in service. One could effect a print to pdf by using it as the printer name in print settings, as I recall.

TIA,


Nelson Byrne

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:18:21 -0600
From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Print to PDF
To: Applescript Users <email@hidden>
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On Jan 9, 2012, at 3:48 PM, R. Nelson Byrne wrote:

> Is there a way using AppleScript or Automator to print to PDF?

I use this:   http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20219/cups-pdf
to save message files via Mail which contain images.

> In the old days there was an Adobe program that emulated a printer, not quite the same thing and as far as I know no longer in service. One could effect a print to pdf by using it as the printer name in print settings, as I recall.


That's more or less how CUPS-PDF works. I have an AppleScript that creates the pdf documents and can provide help, if necessary.


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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:30:41 +0000
From: Mike Matthews <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Print to PDF
To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
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On Jan 9, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

On Jan 9, 2012, at 3:48 PM, R. Nelson Byrne wrote:

Is there a way using AppleScript or Automator to print to PDF?

I use this:   http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20219/cups-pdf
to save message files via Mail which contain images.

In the old days there was an Adobe program that emulated a printer, not quite the same thing and as far as I know no longer in service. One could effect a print to pdf by using it as the printer name in print settings, as I recall.

That's more or less how CUPS-PDF works. I have an AppleScript that creates the pdf documents and can provide help, if necessary.

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Can you post it?
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mm

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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:38:31 -0500
From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Print to PDF
To: AppleScript-Users Mail Mail <email@hidden>
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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.


On Jan 9, 2012, at 4:48 PM, R. Nelson Byrne wrote:

> Is there a way using AppleScript or Automator to print to PDF?

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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:37:58 +0000
From: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Print to PDF
To: "R. Nelson Byrne" <email@hidden>,
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Sure, I'll figure it out tonight.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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From: "R. Nelson Byrne" <email@hidden>
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Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:48:33
To: <email@hidden>
Subject: Print to PDF

Is there a way using AppleScript or Automator to print to PDF?

In the old days there was an Adobe program that emulated a printer, not quite the same thing and as far as I know no longer in service. One could effect a print to pdf by using it as the printer name in print settings, as I recall.

TIA,


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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:09:28 -0600
From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Print to PDF
To: email@hidden
Cc: applescript-users-bounces+zavpublic=email@hidden,                 "R.
                Nelson Byrne" <email@hidden>,
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Before I try to get started, what were you tying to print?

On Jan 9, 2012, at 6:37 PM, email@hidden wrote:

> Sure, I'll figure it out tonight.
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "R. Nelson Byrne" <email@hidden>
> Sender: applescript-users-bounces+zavpublic=email@hidden
> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:48:33
> To: <email@hidden>
> Subject: Print to PDF
>
> Is there a way using AppleScript or Automator to print to PDF?
>
> In the old days there was an Adobe program that emulated a printer, not quite the same thing and as far as I know no longer in service. One could effect a print to pdf by using it as the printer name in print settings, as I recall.



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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:13:48 -0800
From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Print to PDF
To: email@hidden
Message-ID: <p06240829cb3140c13241@[192.168.1.69]>
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Is there any way to get CUPS-PDF to chose another location for the completed job files except for /private/var/spool/cups-pdf/<HOME> ?

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RICK GORDON
EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING
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WWW:   http://www.shelterpub.com


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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:37:43 -0800
From: Joe <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Print to PDF
To: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
Cc: AppleScript-Users Mail Mail <email@hidden>
Message-ID: <email@hidden>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"

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
end tell



Joe
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