On 6/27/05, Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
He mentioned that because Distiller installs a separate print driver that outputs to PDF. His method requires setting this "PDF Printer" as the default, but I don't have a way to use that driver since I don't have Distiller. > 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. I tried using that; I created a "PDF Printing" preset. I then printed one document to PDF, so it was the default choice when I hit command-P again. However, using FinaleScript still prints through the "Standard" preset. > 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. That make plenty of sense, but I haven't been able to get that to work. The Print dialog won't let you name a new preset to the same name as an existing one; therefore you can't save a new preset named "Standard." I couldn't rename the original "Standard" to attempt to create a new "Standard," either. (OSX 10.3.9) -- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] my blog: http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com Life would be so much easier if only (3/2)^12=(2/1)^7. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
