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Re: Can't open pdf with Acrobat
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Re: Can't open pdf with Acrobat


  • Subject: Re: Can't open pdf with Acrobat
  • From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 04:36:15 -0500

On Oct 04, 2012, at 23:03, Brian Christmas <email@hidden> wrote:
I'm having trouble with the trial version of Acrobat Pro X.
set theItem to ((path to desktop) & "This is a test.pdf") as text as alias
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
open (theItem as alias)
end tell
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Hey Brian,

I'm not certain why you're tying to make an alias file into an alias...

That aside I've seen some apps not liking aliases as file references.  I don't have Acrobat to test with, but I'd try file-path as «class furl» and see what happens.

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Best Regards,
Chris

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