Re: Here's a script for exporting selected objects to PDF

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From: Dave Saunders
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:28

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Richard,

I just stumbled upon this topic while doing some admin. Thanks for posting the script.

In the spirit of contributing to your learning: A comment about your use of the try construct. A way of making the error message a little more meaningful (as much for debugging as for the user) is to have the on error part read:

on error
 display dialog myErrMsg
end try

Then, at the beginning of the script you can do something like:

set myErrMsg to "Trouble starting up"

And through the script you can change the value to indicate where you are or what you're doing. That way, when it does pull an error you have a better idea of what went wrong -- both you the developer, and you the user after the script is published.

Dave

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