Acrobat Distiller - check for running jobs /stop and restart

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#1

Hi all-
I need a basic script to check a distiller and quit it when its stuck. Please help :slight_smile:
Something like this:

tell application “Acrobat Distiller”
If jobs are running
Has jobXXX been running for over 10minutes?
if yes then quit the distiller
tell application “Acrobat Distiller”
to activate

… exit this script

if jobs are not running (do a quick quit and relaunch to clean things up)
tell application “Acrobat Distiller”
tell application “Acrobat Distiller” to quit
end tell

tell application “Acrobat Distiller”
to activate

#2

What’s happening when Distiller gets “stuck”? Is the application hung? WIll it still respond to events?

#3

The application is running, but it stops processing jobs.

#4

Will Acrobat respond to events when it’s in this state? If so, you’ll be able to quit it. If not, you’ll need to do a do shell script kill.