newbie needs help wiht repeat command

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#1

I have several documents I need to open and print. The problem I get is once all documents are printed and closed my script errors out any ideas?

Thank you,

Jason


select PDF_Li
open selection
end tell
tell application "Acrobat 5.0"
repeat until PDF_L = 0
if PDF_Li = 0 then end
print pages
close document
end repeat
#2

Look for the current thread on printing PDFs and let us know if your question was answered or if you need more help.

#3

It sounds like a timeout error. AppleScript starts to worry if an application to which it’s given an instruction hasn’t reported back within a certain amount of time. (30, 60 seconds?)

Decide what’s a reasonable amount of time for your task to complete and use that as the parameter of a ‘with timeout’ block.

with timeout of 3600 seconds
  tell application "Acrobat 5.0"
  
    -- Do something that takes up to an hour
    
  end tell
end timeout