On 2023-06-30, Yee Cheng Chin <ychin.mac...@gmail.com> wrote:

> you can trick Preview to pop up a dialog box (in the background) saying
> that it can't open the file but *not *show the app icon in the Dock,
> meaning the user has no way of finding it.

Maybe `activate` can help there?

    system($"osascript -e 'tell app \"Preview\"' -e 'activate' -e 'open POSIX 
file \"{v:fname_in}.pdf\"' -e 'end tell'")

Or maybe with `activate` after open.

> I do want to avoid having to ask about permissions just to print
> a file (since such permissions could be broad and the user may not
> want to give it to begin with)

That's a good point. The timer trick likely makes for a better UX.

Life.

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