Re: AppleScript for resizing/repositioning Preview document windows
Re: AppleScript for resizing/repositioning Preview document windows
- Subject: Re: AppleScript for resizing/repositioning Preview document windows
- From: Barry Fass-Holmes via AppleScript-Users <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:08:03 -0700
Hi Laine,
Many thanks for your reply.
I tested your revision of the script, and the document windows remained
unchanged as was the case with my version.
I suspect something funky is going on with my Ventura installation.
Barry
> On Oct 22, 2023, at 6:06 PM, Laine <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I’m not able to test in Ventura anymore, but it appears to work OK in Sonoma
> (latest public beta), in case that's something to look forward to. I tried
> Sonoma on one machine for a couple of days, and it seemed OK, so now it’s the
> only recent system I have. Anyway, I probably wouldn’t perform another “tell"
> inside “Preview”’s tell block. Did you try something like this (I played with
> the bounds):
>
> tell application "Preview"
> activate
> set _theWindows to every window
> repeat with i from 1 to number of items in _theWindows
> set this_item to item i of _theWindows
> set the bounds of this_item to {0, 0, 1111, 1600}
> end repeat
> end tell
> delay 1
> tell application "System Events"
> keystroke "g" using {option down, command down}
> keystroke 14
> delay 1.5
> keystroke return
> end tell
> tell application "Preview"
> activate
> set the bounds of window 1 to {200, 0, 720, 940}
> end tell
>
>
> L. Lee
>
>> On Oct 22, 2023, at 6:33 PM, Barry Fass-Holmes via AppleScript-Users
>> <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> The script below functioned properly under macOS Monterey, but now under
>> Ventura it does not.
>>
>> The open document windows do not resize at all. I’ve experimented with the
>> last two values in the bounds statements, but the windows remain at the same
>> size as when Preview launched and the documents reopened from the last
>> session (as if the bounds statement did not process at all).
>>
>> How can I fix the script so that it functions properly under Ventura? Many
>> thanks in advance.
>>
>> Barry
>>
>> tell application "Preview"
>> activate
>> set _theWindows to every window
>> repeat with i from 1 to number of items in _theWindows
>> set this_item to item i of _theWindows
>> set the bounds of this_item to {0, 0, 720, 940}
>> end repeat
>> delay 1
>> tell application "Preview" to activate
>> tell application "System Events"
>> keystroke "g" using {option down, command down}
>> keystroke 14
>> delay 1.5
>> keystroke return
>> end tell
>> set the bounds of window 1 to {200, 0, 720, 940}
>> end tell
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