Hello,
if both files “ PDF_ToolPath, PDF_FilePath - are located on my boot volume, then this script works;
if both files reside on an USB stick, i get
error “ERROR: Could not write to file
/Volumes/Hama 16GB #2/pdPDF_MetaDataInjector Æ’/AppleScriptLanguageGuide 1996.pdf” number 1 from «script» to item
-- PDF_MetaDataInjector
-- based upon "inject metadata"
-- by Martin Michel · Administrator · Berlin, Germany · 2009-10-13 03:51:22 pm
-- http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?pid=187137
-- path to the pdfprops command line utility
property PDF_ToolPath : "/pdPDF_MetaDataInjector Æ’/pdfprops"
-- metadata to be injected
-- >> set a property value to «missing value» to ignore it
property Title : "AppleScript - The mutant language from the moon!"
property Author : "AS_LC_Group"
property Subject : "Problems & Solutions"
property Keywords : "A B C D E Z"
property Creator : "A wonderful Mac Enlightenment"
property PDF_FilePath : "/pdPDF_MetaDataInjector Æ’/AppleScriptLanguageGuide¢AS ??.7¢1996-???? #.pdf"
tell me
activate
set arguments to {}
set PDF_ToolPath_Q to quoted form of POSIX path of PDF_ToolPath
set PDF_FilePath_Q to quoted form of POSIX path of (PDF_FilePath as text)
set keyvalues to {Author, Title, Subject, Creator, Keywords}
set keynames to {" -author ", " -title ", " -subject ", " -creator ", " -keywords "}
repeat with ii from 1 to 5
set keyvalue to item ii of keyvalues
if keyvalue is not missing value then
set keyname to item ii of keynames
set argument to keyname & quoted form of keyvalue
set arguments to arguments & argument
end if
end repeat
set command to PDF_ToolPath_Q & " -file " & PDF_FilePath_Q & arguments
log command
try
do shell script command
on error errmsg number errnum
error errmsg number errnum
end try
end tell
Thanks in advance
Peter
Model: MacPro 2012 ¢ OSX 10.11.6
AppleScript: 2.5
Browser: Safari 602.1.50
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.10)