[texworks] SCRIPTING: get current poppler page number

[Paul A Norman]

P.S re-the error mesage, we may be missing a boolean from the 'command line':

  open POSIX file "$basefname.pdf" options "page=$page"

The one about invisibility or not of  of the window


The APi is the whole Sdk portion - html help, (many mb) the windows
one includes the apple referecnces I quoted.

On 22 October 2010 13:46, Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for that,
>
> I am also out of my league with MAC stuff but intuitvely :) something
> towards (I know its wrong) ...
>
> using a second parameter to be the page number - not sure what
> "basename" is should we have say pagenumber or is baseanme a directive
> of some sort? `pwd' looks like it returns the path from a system call
>
>     #!/bin/bash
>
>       PATH="$PATH:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin"
>
>       name=$(basename "$1" .pdf)
>       basefname="`pwd`/${name}"
>
>       page=$(basename "$2")
>
>       /usr/bin/osascript << END
>       tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
>               activate
>               open POSIX file "$basefname.pdf" options "page=$page"
>       end tell
>       END
>
> Yep, I too await those who know how to peel it right and spit out the pips :)
>
> Paul
>
> On 22 October 2010 01:41, Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at me.com> wrote:
>> Le 21 oct. 2010 à 14:39, Bruno Voisin a écrit :
>>
>>>  (I imagine the SDK prohibits copying the code here).
>>
>> I meant the EULA, not the SDK, sorry.
>>
>> Bruno
>>
>>
>>
>