Adding Applescript to Acrobats menubar

[Christian_Plessl@adobeforums.com]

I have written some applescript, that I would like to call from Acrobat Professional 6.0.2 using a keyboard shortcut. Is it possible to register applescripts with Acrobats menu bar, and assign a keyboard shortcut to it? I couldn't find any documentation on that on the Acrobat web pages.

Where has the script to be installed? I tried ~/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/Scripts but it seems like the wrong destination, since it didn't work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Christian

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

No, you can't do that with AppleScript. The scripts directory is for
JavaScript.

Aandi Inston

[Christian_Plessl@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for the reply.

It's really dissapointing, that Acrobat doesn't support adding AppleScript to its menus, since Acrobat has a lot of scripting support through AppleScript.

Can JavaScript register themselves with the menu bar? If yes, how can it be done?

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

Can AppleScript run JavaScript? Maybe, not sure. But in this case it
would have to be all JavaScript. I believe JavaScripts can add to the
menu. Details in the JavaScript Reference.

Aandi Inston

[Garrett_Cobarr@adobeforums.com]

Christian, you can add menus to Acrobat, actually you can add menuItems, menus under existing menus but there security restrictions. you can only add them from an external .js file started at app initialization, or from the console, or from a batch process. You cannot execute the addMenuItem JavaScript from inside a PDF document.

I don't think that is the hard part, its making the cross over to AppleScript from the menu. Try making you post in the link below, this is the new Acrobat Scripting forum and there are some folks there whose heads are in both languages.

<http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.3bb55d70>

Good Luck!