I thought I worked out the hard bit...

The idea is this script will choose a printer depending on which chain the file belongs to, then print using Acrobat. It all seems to work lovely, but the script gets stuck on the print dialog box until I manually click ‘OK’.

I have tried a few things but none work at the moment.

  1. delay 3
    tell application “Adobe Acrobat Pro” to keystroke return

  2. delay 3
    tell application “Adobe Acrobat Pro” to keystroke (ASCII character 3)

  3. and this one, a simple keystroke return.

Acrobat ignore everything I have tried. Any ideas?

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
	tell application "Finder"
		set aFileToPrint to these_items
		set wtPrint to aFileToPrint
	end tell
	
	--print time
	set {tid, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, "_"}
	tell application "Finder"
		repeat with aFileToPrint in these_items
			set fileName to name of aFileToPrint
			set {jc1, jc2, wc} to text items of fileName
			set chain to text 3 thru -1 of wc
			try
				if chain = "C" then
					tell application "Printer Setup Utility" to set current printer to printer "HP 8550"
					tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
						print aFileToPrint
						keystroke return
					end tell
				else if chain = "PCW" then
					tell application "Printer Setup Utility" to set current printer to printer "Rhubarb & Custard"
					tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
						print aFileToPrint
						keystroke return
					end tell
				end if
			end try
		end repeat
	end tell
	set text item delimiters to tid
end adding folder items to

Hi,

first of all, the keystroke command belongs to System Events, not to Acrobat or the Finder.
Acrobat Pro has an own print command named print pages.

I don’t understand this part at all


  tell application "Finder"
       set aFileToPrint to these_items
       set wtPrint to aFileToPrint
   end tell

the Finder is not needed to define any variable
and you define only two new pointers to the same reference.
For example when you delete an item in these_items,
this item “disappears” also in aFileToPrint and wtPrint.
Later you use aFileToPrint as index variable in the repeat loop

Yep that was a pointless way to start the script, thats me chopping scripts together. Now to bypass the OK button and I’ll be laughing!

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
	set {tid, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, "_"}
	tell application "Finder"
		repeat with aFileToPrint in these_items
			set fileName to name of aFileToPrint
			set {jc1, jc2, wc} to text items of fileName
			set chain to text 3 thru -1 of wc
			try
				if chain = "C" then
					tell application "Printer Setup Utility" to set current printer to printer "HP 8550"
					tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
						print aFileToPrint
					end tell
				else if chain = "PCW" then
					tell application "Printer Setup Utility" to set current printer to printer "Rhubarb & Custard"
					tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
						print aFileToPrint
					end tell
				end if
			end try
		end repeat
	end tell
	set text item delimiters to tid
end adding folder items to

try this


on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
	set {tid, text item delimiters} to {text item delimiters, "_"}
	repeat with aFileToPrint in these_items
		tell application "Finder" to set fileName to name of aFileToPrint
		set {jc1, jc2, wc} to text items of fileName
		set chain to text 3 thru -1 of wc
		try
			if chain = "C" then
				tell application "Printer Setup Utility" to set current printer to printer "HP 8550"
			else if chain = "PCW" then
				tell application "Printer Setup Utility" to set current printer to printer "Rhubarb & Custard"
			end if
			if chain is "C" or chain is "PCW" then
				tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
					open aFileToPrint
					print pages active doc PS Level 3 without binary output and shrink to fit
					close active doc
				end tell
			end if
		end try
	end repeat
	set text item delimiters to tid
end adding folder items to

Thank you!

I changed this line though as it wasn’t fitting to the page for some reason.

print pages active doc PS Level 2 with binary output and shrink to fit

The reason was without :wink: