Saving As... with Acrobat

[Brontojoris]

I am trying to script Acrobat so that I can save a document as a new file name. What commands should I give Acrobat to do this?

So far, I have been able to get the current url from Safari, switch to Acrobat. Select the Download webpage menu item, fill in the url from Safari, and begin downloading. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to coerce Acrobat into saving this new file to disk.

I’ve tried various methods such as:

save to "Mac OS X":Users:joris:Desktop:new.pdf"

or

do script "myDoc.saveas(myDoc.path)

or

set newFile to choose file name with prompt "Provide a new name and select a location for " & theDocTitle & " :"
save to newFile

as well as trying GUI scripting -- nothing happens :(

Any suggestions or tips would be most welcome.

[jonn8]

Hmm. This should work but is causing me errors at the moment (it is saving the document but with a string of numbers as the name in my temporary items folder):

tell application “Acrobat 5.0”
tell document 1
save to ((path to desktop as string) & “name.pdf”) file specification
close
end tell
end tell

–this script was automatically tagged for
–color coded syntax by Script to Markup Code
–written by Jonathan Nathan

By the way, what version of Acrobat are you using?

Jon

[Brontojoris]

Hi Jon,

I’m using Acrobat 5.0.5.

I tried your code, but Applescript Editor (2.0 Beta) comes back saying that it found a class name instead of an expected end of line. When I take out ‘file specification’, the script doesn’t return an error, but it also doesn’t save a new file to the desktop.

:?

[jonn8]

Sorry, it should have been:

tell application “Acrobat 5.0”
tell document 1
save to (((path to desktop as string) & “name.pdf”) as file specification)
close
end tell
end tell

–this script was automatically tagged for
–color coded syntax by Script to Markup Code
–written by Jonathan Nathan

Jon

[alonzo_turner]

I am having the exact same problem though I am using OS 9. I am using the code specified in the previous thread message but I still get no file. Has anyone solved this problem?