Accessing Sub menu's

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#1

Greetings,

I’m new and making a script that will make smaller .pdfs using the “Reduced size pdf.” function in acrobat. I have everything for it but haven’t figured out the correct way to click on the “reduced size pdf.” I have tried several similar scripts and replacing the menu item names but that didn’t work. What I want to target is located under “File” in the menu bar, then hover over the “Save as.” to get the next menu with the “Reduced size pdf.”

Thanks!

#2

Hi,

this works here in Acrobat X


activate application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
tell application "System Events"
	tell process "AdobeAcrobat"
		click menu item "Reduced Size PDF..." of menu 1 of menu item "Save As" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1
	end tell
end tell
#3

Maybe these handlers may help.

#=====
(*
useful to get the indexs of the triggered item
my select_SubMenu("Numbers", 6, 14, 3) (* Table > Footer rows > 2 *)
*)
on select_SubMenu(theApp, mt, mi, ms)
	
	activate application theApp
	tell application "System Events" to tell (first process whose frontmost is true) to tell menu bar 1
		get name of menu bar items
		(*{
01 - "Apple", 
02 - "Numbers", 
03 - "Fichier", 
04 - "Édition", 
05 - "Insertion", 
06 - "Tableau", 
07 - "Format", 
08 - "Disposition", 
09 - "Présentation", 
10 - "Fenêtre", 
11 - "Partage", 
12 - "Aide"}
*)
		get name of menu bar item mt
		-- {"Tableau"}
		tell menu bar item mt to tell menu 1
			get name of menu items
			(* {01 - "Insérer un rang au-dessus", 
02 - "Insérer un rang en dessous", 
03 - missing value, 
04 - "Insérer une colonne avant", 
05 - "Insérer une colonne après", 
06 - missing value, 
07 - "Supprimer le rang", 
08 - "Supprimer la colonne", 
09 - missing value, 
10 - "Rangs d'en-tête", 
11 - "Colonnes d'en-tête", 
12 - "Bloquer les rangs d'en-tête", 
13 - "Bloquer les colonnes d'en-tête", 
14 - "Rangs de bas de tableau", 
15 - missing value, 
16 - "Ajuster les rangs au contenu", 
17 - "Ajuster les colonnes au contenu", 
18 - missing value, 
19 - "Afficher tous les rangs", 
20 - "Afficher toutes les colonnes", 
21 - "Activer toutes les catégories", 
22 - missing value, 
23 - "Fusionner les cellules", 
24 - "Diviser en rangs", 
25 - "Diviser en colonnes", 
26 - missing value, 
27 - "Répartir les rangs uniformément", 
28 - "Répartir les colonnes uniformément", 
29 - missing value, 
30 - "Autoriser la sélection de bordure", 
31 - missing value, 
32 - "Afficher le panneau de réorganisation"}
*)
			get name of menu item mi
			--"Rangs de bas de tableau"
			tell menu item mi to tell menu 1
				get name of menu items
				(* {
1 - "0", 
2 - "1", 
3 - "2", 
4 - "3", 
5 - "4", 
6 - "5"}
*)
				get name of menu item ms
				-- "2"
				#click menu item ms # disabled as long as the code isn't checked
			end tell -- menu item.
			
		end tell -- menu bar.
		
	end tell -- System Events
end select_SubMenu

#=====
(*
my selectSubMenu("Pages",6, 4, 26)
==== Uses GUIscripting ====
*)
on selectSubMenu(theApp, mt, mi, ms)
	activate application theApp
	tell application "System Events" to tell (first process whose frontmost is true) to tell menu bar 1 to ¬
		tell menu bar item mt to tell menu 1 to tell menu item mi to tell menu 1 to click menu item ms
end selectSubMenu

#=====

The first one is used to check that we are really triggering the correct menu items.
The second one is more compact and more efficient.
It’s the one which I keep when I am sure that the numerical parameters are correctly defined.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 13 février 2014 22:19:07

#4

Thanks Stefan! That worked great. I had something extremely similar to that but must not have had the menu 1 and menu items in the right order.

Yvan, Thanks for the help! I will look in to those as I continue finding more uses for applescript.