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Hi Paul,
that's great news. I'll spend the day at Mac Expo tomorrow and still
need to prepare a lot of stuff, so I may only get to implement this
on Saturday and have to ask for patience for responses until
Friday :-/ ..
Thanks for sharing your observations. The behaviour will use the
bundle identifier though, to find, launch, activate and identify the
application and then use OS X directly to emulate the keyboard events
(probably no AppleScript will be used at all in this).
I'll post to this thread or to you privately as soon as I've finished
work to show :-)
Thanks again for your support!
Felix
Hi Felix,
It turns out that Acrobat Pro, Actobat Standard, and Adobe Reader
(formerly Acrobat Reader) all have this same functionality for full-
screen presentations and all use the same keyboard commands I
listed in my posting. So, if you want to test out a RemoteBuddy
plugin, you can just use the free Reader from Adobe's Web site.
One minor complcation is in figuring out how to launch the Acrobat
application. For example, the latest U.S. version of Acrobat Pro
is called "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional.app". As you can
probabky guess, every version of the program and every flavor
(Reader, Standard, and Pro) will probably have a different name.
The solution is to use Apple's Launch Services and lauch the
application by creator code. All versions of Acrobat/Adobe Reader
share the same creator code "CARO" and launch Services seems to be
able to figure out which to launch depending on what is installed
on a user's system.
Using AppleScript, here is how I would do it:
tell application "Finder"
-- opens Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat Pro
open application file id "CARO"
end tell
Hope that is helpful.
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