On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:43 AM, J. Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Kay C Lan wrote: > >> use the launch command to force a pdf to open with TextEdit > >> > >> use do to run this AppleScript: > >> > >> tell application "TextEdit" > >> set tText to the text of document 1 > >> end tell > > > > Maybe this is another Leopard thang, I dunno, I haven't set up my test > > stack for this yet, but in Tiger I can't get Text Edit to open a PDF in > > any meaningful way; that is, it just shows the raw PDF data but doesn't > > render it. > > > > So my question is whether TextEdit renders PDFs normally in Leopard, or > > if the behavior is the same as under Tiger then how does the "launch" > > command differ from dropping a file on the app's Dock icon? > > Do you have the PDF2RTF service installed? It's required. It's working > for me in Tiger.
Aaah, THAT'S the trick. Thanks Jacque. Sarah _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
