Creating a PDF File and moving it to a hot folder

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

I have an applescript droplet that creates a pdf file, opens that pdf file in Acrobat and brings up a dialog box asking whether the pdf file looks ready to print. If I click yes, the script moves the file to the printer’s hot folder and begins printing it. The script is working and moving the file to the hot folder, but when it does that, it also throws up an error message saying the “handler can’t handle objects of this class”. I am new to applescript. What do I need to change so I stop seeing that error message?

I tried coercing the variable pdfFile as a file instead of an alias, but then it doesn’t send it to the hot folder at all whereas as an alias it sends it and then gives me the error message.


on open droppedfile
	
	
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	--PART #1 - GETTING THE FILE NAME AND PATH AND CREATING PDF FILE
	
	set my_destination to "Volumes:server1:Advertising Department:5_ADVERTISING DEPT - PREPRESS:3_Signs:*PDFs to Print:" as string
	
	tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2014" to activate
	repeat with afile in droppedfile
		
		
		--GETTING RID OF INTERRUPTING MISSING FONT & IMAGE DIALOG BOXES
		tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2014"
			set user interaction level of script preferences to never interact
			
			--OPENING THE FILE IN INDESIGN
			open afile
			
			--DECLARING VARIABLES FOR THE PATH TO THE DOCUMENT
			set doc_name to get name of active document as string
			set pdf_name to text 1 thru -6 of doc_name as string
			set final_pdf_name to pdf_name & "_bleed" & ".pdf"
			set pdf_destination to my_destination & final_pdf_name
			
			tell PDF export preferences
				set view PDF to true
			end tell
			
			--TELLING IN DESIGN TO CREATE PDF FILE
			tell document 1
				
				--change PDF Preset name from "IDPDF_Bleed" to your pdf preset
				export format PDF type to pdf_destination using "IDPDF_Bleed" without showing options
				close afile saving no
				
				
				--RESETTING USER INTERACTION SO DIALOG BOXES COME UP AGAIN
				tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2014"
					set user interaction level of script preferences to interact with all
				end tell
			end tell
		end tell
		
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		--PART #2 - CHECKING THE PDF IN ADOBE ACROBAT. IF FILE IS OK, MOVING THE FILE TO THE PRINTER'S HOT FOLDER
		
		tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
			activate
			set default zoom type to fit page
			tell application "Finder"
				set pdfFile to pdf_destination as alias
				activate
				close Finder windows
				display dialog "Does this file look ready to print and is the printing profile set to the right one?" buttons {"Yes! Print Me!", "No. Close Me."}
				if result = {button returned:"Yes! Print Me!"} then
					duplicate file pdfFile to alias "Volumes:server1:Advertising Department:5_ADVERTISING DEPT - PREPRESS:Epson Hot Folder:"
					close
				else if result = {button returned:"No. Close Me."} then
display dialog "Ok. The file has been closed. Please correct the InDesign file and drop it on the droplet again."
					close
				end if
			end tell
		end tell
		
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	end repeat
end open
#2

hi
your asking finder to do acrobats work

try putting this

 close document 1

between your last to end tells
and remove the other two “close” earlier

#3

Thank you. That fixed it. I kept changing the way I got the path to the pdf file and I could have saved myself the time if I’d just looked at the code a few lines down.

#4

Hi,

the Acrobat part does actually nothing. You have at least to open the file in Acrobat.

PS: HFS paths start always with a disk name even for paths on the startup volume and never with Volumes:

#5

Curiously enough, it does work when I start hfs paths with volumes instead of the disk name and without error messages once I fixed the other error.