Recently, I needed to automate printing a Word document to a PDF file and have it saved to a predefined location. There were some good articles on the web about how to do the printing part, or the PDF part but not how to save the output.<\/p>\n
So, here’s my stab at printing a Word document to a PDF file in a known location:<\/p>\n
-- This AppleScript will open up our Word doc and save it as a PDF\n\nset myDoc to \"\/Users\/jaimerios\/Documents\/Developer notes.doc\"\nset pdfSavePath to \"\/Users\/jaimerios\/Documents\/PDFs\/\"\n\ntell application \"Microsoft Word\"\n\tactivate\n\topen myDoc\nend tell\n\ntell application \"System Events\"\n\ttell process \"Microsoft Word\"\n\t\t-- Press command+p to open our print dialog\n\t\tkeystroke \"p\" using command down\n\n\t\t-- Let's make sure our print dialog is up\n\t\trepeat until exists window \"Print\"\n\t\tend repeat\n\n\t\t-- Click the PDF menu button\n\t\tclick menu button \"PDF\" of window \"Print\"\n\n\t\t-- Make sure the menu is up\n\t\trepeat until exists menu item \"Save as PDF\u2026\" of menu 1 of menu button \"PDF\" of window \"Print\"\n\t\tend repeat\n\t\t-- Select the \"Save as PDF\" menu item\n\t\tclick menu item \"Save as PDF\u2026\" of menu 1 of menu button \"PDF\" of window \"Print\"\n\n\t\t-- Make sure the save dialog is visible\n\t\trepeat until exists window \"Save\"\n\t\tend repeat\n\n\t\t-- Press command+shift+g to show the \"Go\" drop down sheet\n\t\tkeystroke \"g\" using {command down, shift down}\n\t\t-- Set our location field to our pdfSavePath\n\t\tset value of text field 1 of sheet of window \"Save\" to pdfSavePath\n\t\t-- Now click the Go button\n\t\tclick button \"Go\" of sheet of window \"Save\"\n\n\t\t-- Now that we are in our desired folder, set the file name and save\n\t\tset value of text field 1 of window \"Save\" to \"Special Developer Notes.pdf\"\n\n\t\tclick button \"Save\" of window \"Save\"\n\tend tell\nend tell<\/pre>\nNow the only limitation to this script is that it doesn’t handle the condition where the PDF file might already exist in our output location.<\/p>\n
I have to give credit to the original author who came up with tis script. Their AppleScript code is located at this website link.<\/a><\/p>\nWell, I hope this helps you and if you have any comments to make this script better, let me know.<\/p>\n
Happy coding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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