On Jun 27, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
On 6/26/05, Simon Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not finding the commands to batch print to PDF in either
FinaleScript *or* TGTools. How, exactly, is this accomplished?
I have a completely different route. I use a quickeys macro to open
every
document sequentially and compile a postscript listing to a folder
watched
by distiller.
[snip]
Depends on whether you have Distiller as to whether this is any use to
you.
Unfortunately, I don't have Distiller, so I can't do either your
method or print to the Adobe PDF print driver. I tried looking for a
free alternative for a PDF print driver, but the only one I've seen is
for System 7-OS9.
Somebody (jef?) mentioned that you can set the default print dialogue
in OSX to always print to PDF, as part of the settings.
Where it says Copies and Pages in the print dialogue, select Output
Options, click on Save To File. PDF is the default format, so all is
well there.
Where it says Presets, select Save, and save these settings as Standard
(not Standard 1), which will overwrite the file already there (Don't
worry, you can reverse all this in the same print dialogue after you
have finished your batch PDF save)
Now whenever you batch print (or print at all!) the default will be
save to PDF.
To reverse this, go to Copies and Pages again, unclick Save To File,
and save under Presets as Standard again. Now your printing will be
normal (to your printer) again.
I haven't tested this, because I haven't learned to use FinaleScript,
but perhaps you could try it out and report back?
Christopher
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