On Jan 6, 2015, at 0:34, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm a new Skim user AND a newbie AppleScript user (~10 hours research and
> practice). I have lots of experience with JavaScript and various scripting
> languages (Windows, Unix, VMS). I'm reaching out to experienced users of
> scripts on Macs.
>
> I want to run the following script:
>
> Standalone MacBook displays a series of PDFs in full-screen mode.
> Keyboard is hidden. No touchscreen. Mac is plugged in.
> PDFs are on Mac's hard drive. (No networking needed.)
> I don't care about hard-coding file/path names. (I can add variables later.)
> Optional: Script starts on startup.
>
> The following script opens two PDFs in Skim and then does nothing else
> (with no errors).
>
> tell application "Skim"
> open "Macintosh HD:Users:brhodewalt:Documents:PDFs:samplep1.pdf"
> open "Macintosh HD:Users:brhodewalt:Documents:PDFs:samplep2.pdf"
> end tell
>
> tell application "System Events" to tell process "Skim"
> click menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1
> end tell
>
>
> Mac OS X 10.7.5
> Skim 1.4.10
>
> Thank you for any help.
> Bruce
>
It is not clear to me what your question is. It is also not really clear to me
what you want to achieve.
Christiaan
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