macOS Applescript to print from Acrobat

[DenY]

Hi all,
I'm new to Applescript. I've started doing some reading, but I haven't found many scripts to pull from regarding printing.
My goal:
Print a PDF from from Acrobat, 25 copies @ 95% scale, with a 1 minute delay between each print.

(Yes, it probably sounds crazy, but if I send all 25 copies at once the printer jams instantly. I have 10,000 sheets to print and I'm hoping I can avoid doing this manually.)

This is all I have so far. It pulls up the dialog box for printing, but that's it.

tell application "Adobe Acrobat" to print ("/Users/dennis/Desktop/Eyewear.pdf")

If anyone has direction to share I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thanks!
Dennis

 

[kryten2]

You can try in the Terminal application :

for ((i=1;i<=25;i++));do
   lpr -o scaling=95 /Users/dennis/Desktop/Eyewear.pdf
   sleep 60
done

 

[DenY]

You can try in the Terminal application :

for ((i=1;i<=25;i++));do
   lpr -o scaling=95 /Users/dennis/Desktop/Eyewear.pdf
   sleep 60
done

Hi kryten2,
Thanks so much for taking time to tackle this! At first I didn't think it would work since it was taking Acrobat's print settings out of the picture, but I'm getting what I need. I did make a little work around (since I don't know what I'm doing).

for ((i=1;i<=1;i++));do
   lpr -o scaling=95 /Users/dennis/Desktop/Eyewear.pdf
   sleep 60
done

I had to change the 25 to 1 as it was print 25 copies immediately (I needed 1 copy, wait 60 seconds, then repeat 25 times). So I just pasted the above into Terminal 25 times. Its working!

Again, much appreciated. This will make life such so much less.
-D

 

[kryten2]

I had to change the 25 to 1 as it was print 25 copies immediately

Imho that would likely occur when you left out sleep.
It should take at least 25 minutes to complete the loop.

So I just pasted the above into Terminal 25 times.

The thing we were trying to avoid. What the snippet should do.

Its working!

Not like intended.

 

[DenY]

Imho that would likely occur when you left out sleep.
It should take at least 25 minutes to complete the loop.

The thing we were trying to avoid. What the snippet should do.

Not like intended.

Well, its doing a much better job than what I had before. So I'm happy to have it even if its not perfect.