When opening Adobe Acrobat Pro, whether it be through Applescript or finder, the introductory dialog is shown. Is there a way to not show this dialog without already having checked the "Don't Show Again" option when opening a document using Applescript?
Photoshop and Illustrator Applescript libraries have ways of setting interaction levels and not showing dialogs, but I can't seem to find the option in Acrobat.
Copy any applicable preferences files in ~/Library/Preferences from a machine that you have checked "Don't show again" on.
If it's not in the dictionary, probably not.
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I'm trying to use Automator on my mac to get around a system dialog. When I open a pdf I get this dialog from acrobat for which I always want to select deny:
I made an automator app that works to select deny, but when I change the application that opens pdf's to this automator.app it doesn't actually open the document, it just launches acrobat and selects deny on the dialog then just sits there.
The way I'd like it to work is that I want to double click any pdf on my computer and always select deny on this dialog which always pops up whenever acrobat opens up.
I'm not married to accomplishing this the way I'm doing it now, I just don't know how else to do it.
The current automator steps/flow is this:
Ok I found how to do this in a slightly different way for anyone interested. Just using the Watch Me Do function instead since it always pops up the same way. Then I just saved it as an app and I right clicked a pdf file and selected this custom app as the one to always use when opening pdf files.
I have asked another question on AskDifferent about Preveiw scripting dictionaries, and have done a subsequent search here which says Preview is not scriptable.
However when I run:
tell application "Preview"
set save_location to ¬
(choose file with prompt "Choose the png to be modified")
activate
open save_location
end tell
It works. Does that mean that Preview.app is scriptable with Applescript 2.2.1 and Max OS X 10.7.5 which is what I am using?
If so then where can I find a listing of the objects?
All Mac applications respond to the Open and Activate commands even if they do not have dictionaries. Your script works because it exploits the built-in capabilities of any application. The absence of a dictionary means that you cannot query or manipulate open documents and windows (i.e. the application's data model).
However, you can use UI Scripting to select menu items, click buttons within windows, and send keystrokes to the application.
You can find out what Preview's dictionary is by launching /Applications/Utilities/AppleScript Editor and choosing File>Open Dictionary from the menu bar, finding Preview in the list of applications shown there, and clicking Choose.
I am building a Cocoa application that allows you to drag and drop files from a NSTableView to your computer. Personally, and I know I'm not alone, when I use applications like this I grab the files, invoke the "Show Desktop" hotkey which makes all my windows go away and then I drop the files on my Desktop.
However, if the files already exist on my Desktop, or wherever I'm dropping them, an Alert sheet comes up asking if I want to overwrite the files. But since I'm in Mission Control/Exposé "Show Desktop" mode, the sheet is floating in the middle of my Desktop instead of attached to my NSWindow...
Ideally, if my application has to show an alert sheet, while all the windows are offscreen, I would like to bring my window forward and out of this mode so the sheet is attached to it and not floating in the middle of my desktop but I cannot find much information on the subject. I've tried the standard makeKey and orderFront tactics but no dice. I've also looked into NSWindows setCollectionBehavior but none of these options seem applicable unless i just want my window to just always stay out and ignore this mode.
Does anyone know how to bring a NSWindow out of Exposé when in "Show Desktop" mode?
Does anyone know where I can find a list of available applescript commands/properties for Microsoft Outlook 2011?
I am trying to copy subject of the opened message into the clipboard and save the message as PDF to my desktop with subject as the file name.
Thanks.
All applications that are apple-scriptable have a "dictionary" of terms as part of the application itself. To access a dictionary open AppleScript Editor, under the File menu choose "open dictionary", and then choose the application.
A second way would be to drag/drop the application onto the AppleScript Editor icon in the dock or applications folder.
A third way... under the Window menu in AppleScript Editor choose "Library". That window is a quick-access tool to access the dictionaries of various applications. You can click the "+" button to add applications not in that list. Double-click an application in the list to access its dictionary.
A 4th way... if AppleScript Editor and the application you are interested in are both in the dock, you can command-drag the application's dock icon onto the AppleScript Editor's dock icon.
When I downloaded Skype, I noticed that, in place of a normal "disk image" icon, there was a custom icon, and when I double clicked on the icon, the window used a colorful image as the background, prompting me to drag the skype icon into the applications folder.
How can I do that with my applications?
Thanks,
Jason
Let me add to the other answers jwz's howto on setting view options on .dmg files. This is the simplest one that I got to work with no problems.
Also, to change the icon from the default .dmg icon:
In the Finder, open an inspector window (^I) for the file whose icon you want to use, click on the icon at the top (it will get a blue border) and copy it to the clipboard (^C).
Then open another inspector for your .dmg, click on the icon and press ^V to paste
(you can change the icon for any file like this).
For this kind of thing, you can always look at open-source programs and see what they do to get a similar result. For example here are the relevant source files for building pretty dmg files in:
Adium
Miro
If you’re interested in a commercial solution, there are a number of DMG designer apps available, including the following I gleaned from a MacUpdate search:
DMG Packager
DMG Architect
DMG Canvas
This is a great freeware solution for a custom background with zero hassle:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dmgcreator/