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Here's the situation:
Some dude working in my company needs a program that does this-
- There are over a 100 PDF files in some folder on a Mac Machine
- The program to be written is supposed to invoke Adobe Acrobat
Professional 7 (Mac version) and open each file from the directory
- Once each file is opened in Acrobat 7, it is supposed to push Alt + E
(or similar) and then 'n' (or similar) in order to enable commenting on the
PDF file.
- The program is then supposed to push Alt +F and then 'S' to save the
file
- This is to happen for all the files in that folder.
Someone supposedly told the dude that this script in Perl was easy to write!
But, un/fortunately, I have no idea where to begin. All I know is that, if I
am doing it on a PC, I need to add the Win32 package and then study sample
programs which should get me going some place. But, I don't know if Win32
would work on Mac or if there is an easier way to approach this!
I would be grateful for suggestions / directions on how to proceed.
Thanks,
Vince
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| Chris Devers 2005-08-29, 9:55 pm |
| On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Vince wrote:
> Someone supposedly told the dude that this script in Perl was easy to
> write! But, un/fortunately, I have no idea where to begin.
Personally, I'd start with either...
* the macosx@perl.org list, which specializes in this kind of thing
* AppleScript, which is exactly for this kind of thing. Better still,
if you have 10.4/Tiger, take a look at Automator, too.
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Chris Devers
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| Thanks. I'll try the other group.
Vince
"Chris Devers" <cdevers@pobox.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Vince wrote:
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> Personally, I'd start with either...
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> * the macosx@perl.org list, which specializes in this kind of thing
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> * AppleScript, which is exactly for this kind of thing. Better still,
> if you have 10.4/Tiger, take a look at Automator, too.
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> --
> Chris Devers
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