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Armin Hierstetter
Armin Hierstetter

Reputation: 1098

Open file in Preview

I struggle with a basic file operation in Apple Script. A pdf is (successfully) written in the script like this:

theDocument's writeToURL:targetFile

Now I want to open the file in Preview like this:

tell application "Preview"
    activate
    open targetFile
end tell

I also tried this:

tell application "Preview"
    activate
    open POSIX path of targetFile
end tell

to no avail. I somehow seem to lack an understanding how to get the path to a given file.

What am I missing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 450

Answers (1)

has
has

Reputation: 176

Your code doesn’t show what targetFile is, but assuming from the first line it’s an NSURL you need to convert it to an AppleScript file type before passing it to Preview’s open command:

set targetFile to targetFile's |path|() as string as POSIX file

AppleScript’s Apple event bridge doesn’t accept ObjC classes, only native AS types.

Upvotes: 1

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