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From: CouponBoy
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:38

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Sorry to be off topic, this forum seems to the place to go for knowledgeable scripters of many programs. :-)
I need to get Acrobat Distiller 6 to process some postscript files. The command "Distill sourcepath "disk:file.ps"" doesn't seem to do anything. I can simply use the "open" command to tell Distiller to process a file, but then I can't seem to specify the joboptions file to use (and that is vitally necessary, I can't rely on the user having the UI set correctly). I don't really need to specify an output path or name, but will need to specify the file to process.

When I try to do something with the "Distill" command, all I get is either an error that says "NSCannotCreateScriptCommandError" or it will do nothing and the Applescript result is just "false".

I have an OS 9/Distiller 5 script that has worked for years so I'm not starting new, but the changes to OSX are vexing me.

TIA, Chris

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