I am wondering if there is a way to use the system print dialog on Mac to print PDF documents.
Everything I have seen so far involved either using lpr
or was only valid on Windows.
Particularly, once I have the dialog, I would like to change the print options, possibly even selecting the printer-specific "staple" options (on a Xerox WorkCentre).
CodePudding user response:
There may be a much better way, but this might get you started:
#!/bin/bash
# Open PDF in Preview app
open FileToPrint.pdf
# Tell Preview to print it
osascript<<EOF
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Preview"
delay 1
keystroke "p" using command down
--delay 1
--keystroke return
--delay 10
--keystroke "w" using command down
end tell
end tell
EOF
The lines starting with --
are comments, so remove the --
to actually go ahead and print the document without further interaction being required.
If that open
command doesn't happen to open in Preview, you can force it with:
open -a Preview FileToPrint.pdf