Re: Background Printing
Re: Background Printing
- Subject: Re: Background Printing
- From: waynemelrose <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:39:46 +1000
So does anyone have any thoughts on how to background print PDF as Greyscale, or background convert a PDF to greyscale? ( without the use of Ghostscript :) )
Thanks
> On 19 Aug 2014, at 8:29 am, waynemelrose <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I’ve found some handy code to background print a file. In this case, PDF.
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> For those that don’t know, here’s how..
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> tell application “PrinterName” # the name of your printer as it would appear in your dock as it’s printing a file
> print “Path:to:file.pdf” without print dialog
> quit
> end tell
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>
> GREAT! Works a charm..
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> My challenge is to get it to print as Greyscale.
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> Two options as I see it, convert the file before it gets there, or just find a way to tell it to print without colour. I did try adding with properties { color : no } which compiles although seems to be ignored.
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> Any thoughts would be welcome.
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> This is to role out to a lot of machines, so for the moment I’m trying to avoid other tools, presets (although this could be an option) and anything that’s not native to OS X 10.8.* or above.
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> Thanks for any input
>
> Wayne
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