hello, I am new to the site.
I am looking for a script to attach to a folder so that when i send a file or sets of files to that folder it would print the file(s) and once it’s done printing each file it would send the file to a done folder.
Thank you
Browser: Firefox 2.0.0.3
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4.x)
Shortage of answers because not many folks are still running (or even have) OS X 10.2.x, and so have no way to test.
Cool. I upgraded the comp. to 10.4 now.
Hi there,
what type of files are you trying to print? If it’s PDFs then you might want to try this script I wrote for Acrobat 7.
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
--set this_folder to choose folder
if folderReady(this_folder) then
tell application "Finder"
set pdfList to every file of this_folder whose name ends with ".pdf"
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in pdfList
set this_item to item i of pdfList
tell application "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional"
open this_item
end tell
tell application "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional"
print pages active doc PS Level 3 with shrink to fit
close active doc
end tell
end repeat
end tell
end if
end adding folder items to
on folderReady(tFolder)
set myFolder to tFolder as alias -- use the path to the folder that's loading
set firstSize to size of (info for myFolder) --get initial size
delay 3 --wait 3 seconds
set newSize to size of (info for myFolder) --get a newer size, bigger
repeat while newSize ≠firstSize --if they don't equal, loop until they do
set firstSize to newSize --new base size
delay 3 --wait three seconds
set newSize to size of (info for myFolder) --get a newer size
end repeat --once the sizes match, the transfer is complete
return true
end folderReady
I’m running it on a machine that’s running 10.3.9 an it seems to work well!
Thanks for the script, but I am using freehand mx. would I just have to change the app. in the script? Thank you.