I'm using AppleScript to convert a bunch of PDF files to TXT files:
set homeFolder to path to home folder as text
set sourceFolder to homeFolder & "pdffolder:"
set txtFolder to homeFolder & "txtfolder:"
tell application "Finder"
set fileSet to get every file of folder sourceFolder
end tell
activate application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
repeat with aFile in fileSet
set currentFile to aFile as text
set currentFileName to name of aFile
set outFile to txtFolder & text 1 thru -5 of currentFileName & ".txt"
with timeout of 360000 seconds
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
open currentFile
try
save active doc to file outFile using conversion "com.adobe.acrobat.plain-text"
close active doc saving no
on error
tell application "System Events" to tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
keystroke return
end tell
end try
end tell
end timeout
end repeat
This works fine for over 90% of the PDFs. But some of them have weird characters and that results in the following pop up:
How do I dismiss that pop up in AppleScript? That
on error
clause in my script was supposed to do that but it doesn't work. Maybe because the pop up is not an error but, well, a pop up; but I have no idea how to treat it.
EDIT:
This is the closest I got to it:
set homeFolder to path to home folder as text
set sourceFolder to homeFolder & "pdffolder:"
set txtFolder to homeFolder & "txtfolder:"
tell application "Finder"
set fileSet to get every file of folder sourceFolder
end tell
activate application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
repeat with aFile in fileSet
set currentFile to aFile as text
set currentFileName to name of aFile
set outFile to txtFolder & text 1 thru -5 of currentFileName & ".txt"
with timeout of 120 seconds
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
open currentFile
try
save active doc to file outFile using conversion "com.adobe.acrobat.plain-text"
close active doc saving no
on error
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Notification Center"
keystroke return
end tell
close active doc saving no
end try
end tell
end timeout
end repeat
So, I'm forcing a timeout error after the pop up has hanged there for 120 seconds. I handle that error by making keystroke return
, which dismisses the pop up and keeps the loop moving forward. But still, ugly as hell - and the 120-second wait slows things down.
Unfortunately it's impossible.
If an Acrobat error occurs the save
line is suspended and the dialog window appears.
Practically the script hangs in the save
line and resumes after the user clicks the OK
button. An AppleScript error is not thrown.