Printing a file on my computer

Panorama X
1

Is there a way to print a file sitting on my computer with a procedure? I could open the file and then the user could print it, but I would prefer to Panorama just print it without any user intervention. The file could be in several different formats, PDFs, PNGs, DOC, or XLSX.

2

You might be able to do it with AppleScript.

3

Here is a sample AppleScript I found that might be a starting point for you. I’m no AppleScript expert so I can’t give any guidance beyond this.

on run {input, parameters}
	set theDocument to input
	tell application "TexEdit"
		launch
		set the Doc to theDocument
	print theDoc with properties {target printer:"default"} without print dialog
	end tell
	tell application "TextEdit"
	return input
end run
4

You can also use an AppleScript to get the default application associated with any file:

let theApp=""
applescript {tell application "System Events"
	get default application of file "/Users/garyyonaites/Documents/Isabelle.jpg"
end tell},theApp
theApp=arraylast(array(theApp,1,{:"}),":")
message theApp

The above code returns Preview.app for this file. You could incorporate this in with the earlier code to automatically get the proper application to open for that file.

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5

I have a form that I print from my Panorama 6 version to endorse checks, which does it automatically within Panorama, but because it is a special page size and feed, doing that within Panorama X is awkward, so I just use the openanything command to open a similar file in Pages and print it from there.

6

Thanks Gary.

7

That’s cool Gary, I didn’t know that AppleScript could do that.