The code:
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Reader DC" to activate
does not launch Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. When I access the dictionary, and, click on Browse, the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC entry is gray and unavailable for selection.
What is the correct filename.
Thank you.
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
Try this:
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Reader DC"
launch
activate
end tell
Try this:
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Reader DC"
launch
activate
end tell
Hello, Pierre.
Thank you for your prompt response.
Your suggestion works. I'm not certain why my code doesn't work, seeing how the following code does work:
tell application "TextEdit" to activate
tell application "Preview" to activate
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Reader DC" to activate
tell application "Microsoft Word" to activate
tell application "Microsoft Excel" to activate
tell application "AlphaX" to activate
except for line three.
Thank you.
Kurt
I am running El Capitan 10.11.3, and line 3 works just fine for me as you have typed it.
I am running El Capitan 10.11.3 too, and line 3 works just fine only when Acrobat Reader is already open. When it's not, line 3 just opens a blank window.
Hi Pierre,
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC was definitely not running when I ran the AppleScript on my Mac mini earlier. Just booted up a different (MBA '14) machine running OS X 10.11.3 and it too, opened the application to a blank window.
What hi-jinks is going on? 😉
You know, as much as a complex OS can water our eyes, it can also befuddle. The old days of simple mainframe command line computing (Burroughs, VAX/VMS) didn't seem to present these kinds of head scratching "No Way!" responses.
After one week of living with this problem, it just ceased appearing. The subject line of code works just fine, now.
Modern OS voodoo makes me chuckle. But, we wouldn't want to go back to the "good old days".
done
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Reader DC" to activate Doesn't Work
