On 3/7/05 5:25 PM, "Sarah Reichelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> If you are using OS X, put whatever it is on a card and try to print >>>> the card, with a dialog box of course... you can click "Save as PDF" >>>> from there (or "Preview" and use the Preview program to save it, if >>>> pre-X.3). >>>> >>>>>> IS there a way to save as a pdf by chance? >>> >>> I was hoping there was a way to do it without user intervention. What >>> I'm >>> putting together is an app that will pick up email orders from my Miva >>> Merchant store, generate a mailing label, pick up the actual pdf >>> files to be >>> printed and send that all on to my fulfillment center where they will >>> produce and ship the item to the customer. They would like everything >>> in pdf >>> format. > Could you AppleScript Preview to create the pdf? Actually, if you only care about OS X, this will create a PDF for you: function stsMakePDF pSrcPath,pDestPath switch (the platform) case "MacOS" if isOSX() then set the cursor to watch put "/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert" into tConvertApp get shell(tConvertApp && "-f" && q(pSrcPath) && "-o" && q(pDestPath) && "-j application/pdf") if it = "" then return "OK" else return "Error : " & it end if else return "Error : stsMakePDF only works on Mac OS X." end if break default return "Error : stsMakePDF only works on Mac OS X." break end switch end stsMakePDF function isOSX set the itemDel to "." return (item 1 of the systemVersion >=10) end isOSX function q what return quote & what & quote end q HTH, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution