February 23, 2003
Adding AppleScript to Printing Save As As PDF
An article on the web mentioned that you can just add applescript support to any Print dialog through the Save As PDF option like below.
I'll explain more details below.
To add a menu item to the PDF workflow pop-up menu, simply add one of the supported item types to any of the following directories:
- /Library/PDF Services
- ~/Library/PDF Services
- /Network/Library/PDF Services
You can add the following type of items:
- a folder or an alias to a folder
- an application or an alias to an application
- a UNIX tool or an alias to a UNIX tool
- an AppleScript file or an alias to an AppleScript file
The following applescript will create a new message in the Mail application and attach the PDF.
on open these_items
try
set this_file to item 1 of these_items
tell application "Finder"
set the file_name to the name of this_file
set the parent_folder to (the container of this_file )as alias
end tell
tell application (path to frontmost application as string)
repeat
display dialog "Enter a name for file:" default answer file_name
set this_name to the text returned of the result
if this_name is not "" then exit repeat
end repeat
end tell
tell application "Finder"
set the name of this_file to this_name
set the target_file to ¬
(document file this_name of the parent_folder )as alias
end tell
tell application "Mail"
set the new_message to ¬
(make new outgoing message with properties ¬
{visible:true, content:" "})
tell the new_message
tell content
make new attachment with properties ¬
{file name: target_file } at ¬
before the first character
end tell
end tell
end tellon error error_message number error_number
if the error_number is not -128 then
tell application (path to frontmost application as string)
display dialog error_message buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end tell
else
tell application "Finder" to delete parent_folder
end if
end tryend open
Cool! (Sorry the code indenting above is a bit warped :) ) Posted by zoo at February 23, 2003 10:39 PM
Well! I just spent three hours coding my own and it looks like yours works a lot better. Kudos!
Posted by: d chalmers on April 12, 2003 09:46 AMHmmm. I get an NSContainerSpecifierError when I try to use this. It appears to be at or around the line "make new attachment with properties {file name: target_file } at before the first character". Garrr.
Posted by: d chalmers on April 12, 2003 09:54 AMNice of you to repost Apple content. The JPG file is lifted from the apple site (didn't even change the name), the text of this article simply has a few lines cut out, and the script is lifted from Apple's site. Nice of you to make it appear to be yours.
Posted by: tom on August 3, 2003 09:53 AMNice article.
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