Re: Always need to restart Preview on OS X

[Jukka Akkanen]

Unfortunately, and unexpectedly, Preview is not really scriptable.  
Just about the only thing you can do with applescript is to make it  
quit; one way to do that in a shell script is:

    osascript -e 'tell app "Preview" to quit'

Another initially confusing thing with Lilypond.app on Mac OS X is,  
it typesets the file stored on disk, not what you have in the editor  
window, so you have to remember to save the file first. But that's  
not a big deal for me as I prefer to run the command-line lilypond in  
a terminal window anyway.

-Jukka


On Sep 6, 2005, at 5:36 AM, Hans Aberg wrote:

> On 6 Sep 2005, at 01:35, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
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> > > One could in principle close the PDF files using AppleScript   
> > > commands, but I do not know how to do it, or if Preview supports it.
> >
> > Preview is a standard MacOS app made by Apple themselves, so it  
> > would be *very*  strange if it didn't support it.
>
> I think I know roughly how to do it: First run the AppleScript  
> program and close a file in Preview, to see what it writes. Then I  
> think that AppleScript can be embedded in a shell script; I think I  
> saw it once, but I do not remember how.
>
>   Hans Aberg
>
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