[The original thread got a bit away from my original intent to discuss UI scripting…wanted to refocus this one on UI scripting. For the original discussion which goes over other options to try to do this, see here]
I’m stumped…either Adobe Illustrator CS is ignoring UI commands, or I’m doing something wrong…
I’m trying to enter valuers into the “Width” and “Height” fields under Media in the General category of the print dialog:
tell application "Illustrator CS"
activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Adobe Illustrator CS"
keystroke "p" using {command down} --open print dialog
keystroke tab --tab over to width field
keystroke tab
keystroke tab
keystroke "3" --test data entry
keystroke return -- print document
end tell
end tell
end tell
The “command-P” works, but once inside the dialog, all UI actions appear to be ignored. The tabs don’t work, data entry doesn’t work, and hitting the default button (either via “return” or via explicity calling out the button) doesn’t work.
I’m definitely way over on the “madness” side and nowhere near the “hobby” side at this point.
[runs screaming around the office]
:o
:mad:
–Kevin
After a shutdown of the computer and restart, my previous script (which works for the most part) will not get the print dialog to actually change the printer from what ever was previously selected. Eventhough you can see the buttons being clicked and changed, the changes don’t actually take effect. If you print from Illustrator manually first, the correct printing will take place. However, the custom page size will remain however it was set from your last print dialog!
mad::mad: I tried changing my test page custom size and it retained the last actual page size from the manual print command. Bummer. I did just run into this link which may lead to something, but we will see. 
