Thankyou everybody for all the details. I learnt a lot in the past 2 days!!
This is the solution we've come up with:
First I checked (upon Ian's suggestion) if I could sompare the two PDF files
(one with commenting not enabled and the other with commenting enabled) and
see if I could somehow ins
--As of Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:14 AM -0400, macosx@perl.org is alleged
to have said:
I'm leaving the rest of the answers; I can check if Acrobat is scriptable
when I get home though.
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Well, I said I'd answer this when I got home. I've got Acrobat 6 Pro, so
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vince) wrote:
> 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 ve
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/applescript/
You'll find links to most of what you need there. The rest will be on
Adobe's site, or on AppleScript mail lists.
As has been mentioned, there is probably no reason to resort to perl
and the Carbon API.
On 2005.8.30, at 01:45 PM, Vince wrote
On Tue, August 30, 2005 12:45 am, Vince said:
>
> a) I've pretty much never worked on a Mac and don't possess one. In order
> to develop programs I use a PC. I was wondering if Macperl could be
> simulated on a PC?
I'm leaving the rest of the answers; I can check if Acrobat is scriptable
when I g
Vince wrote:
re are my other concerns:
a) I've pretty much never worked on a Mac and don't possess one. In order to
develop programs I use a PC. I was wondering if Macperl could be simulated
on a PC?
I would suggest, at the very least, that your company get you a Mac Mini
and a KVM switch
Hello Vince,
I don't have Adobe Acrobat Pro, and I don't know how it is
scriptable. Even if it is not very scriptable, it should be able to
open files with a script, and it should be possible to send the
"sendkeys" commands that you describe with the user interface
On Aug 30, 2005, at 12:45 AM, Vince wrote:
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
I had posted this message earlier to the Perl Beginners group:
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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
Pr
