Acrobat 5 scripting mess

From: Shane Stanley (sstanley@MYRIAD-COM.COM.AU)
Date: Fri May 25 2001 - 10:28:49 AEST


On 25/5/01 10:17 AM +1000, Hugh Justham, hugh@DNA.MULTIMEDIA.COM.AU, wrote:

> I did the same and then changed the settings in the UI , saved manually and
> ran the script again and the output was the same as the last UI save.
>
> I was wrong in beleiving that the file type conversion cannot be changed  -
> seems that the EPS conversion class "inherits" the properties that last UI
> save uses.

That's also what I found.
>
> That doesn't solve the problem of how to dynamically change those
> properties in an AppleScript workflow though.

No. I guess juggling of preferences might work, but that's slow, especially
with the slower launching of version 5.
>
> ... wouldnt be surprised if it worked via OLE though  (sigh)

Ditto...

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Shane Stanley,  sstanley@myriad-com.com.au

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