Thankyou everybody for all the details. I learnt a lot in the past 2 days!!
This is the solution we've come up with: First I checked (upon Ian's suggestion) if I could sompare the two PDF files (one with commenting not enabled and the other with commenting enabled) and see if I could somehow insert the instructions in the PDF file directly. This proved futile (may be I am too stupid). So, I started reading up on Apple Script, Mac::glue (which looks easy but is rather hard when you use Macperl because of the many clicks needed to run something). I got to the stage where I could invoke Acrobat but soon after the Mac machine would get stuck!! So, aborted! But, during my brief flirtation with Mac OSX, I discovered that it could actually talk to a PC!! Meaning, Mac OSX shared folders are accessible to PCs and vice versa. With this brilliant discovery, I switched back to homeground (PC and Win32::GuiTest) and voila! Job done. The Perl program (for the PC) does this exactly. I'll have to do the networking (set up the shared folders) and other customizations now but they idea is working. Thanks everybody for the response. Vince "Daniel Staal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > --As of Tuesday, August 30, 2005 9:14 AM -0400, [email protected] is alleged > to have said: > >> I'm leaving the rest of the answers; I can check if Acrobat is scriptable >> when I get home though. > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > Well, I said I'd answer this when I got home. I've got Acrobat 6 Pro, so > there may be more features in the newer version. > > Acrobat itself is not AppleScriptable (other than using the UI scripting > capability). However, it does have an automation center, where you can > specify full job flows using any option you can normally use. (Look under > 'Advanced' for 'Batch Processing'.) This should be enough to do your job. > > Also, Distiller, which comes with the pro version, *is* AppleScriptable, > and can do most basic conversions for you. I don't see an option to do > what you need in my version, but it may be worth looking. > > It may also be worth checking if Automator can do anything; it can't with > mine, but version 6 came out before Automator did. > > Daniel T. Staal > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you > are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use > the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will > expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, > whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of > local copyright law. > ---------------------------------------------------------------
