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Asked: 2026-05-27T13:54:26+00:00

Is OSX Lion (or older OSX) release of Preview scriptable?

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Is OSX Lion (or older OSX) release of Preview scriptable?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Preview is not now, and have never been AppleScript-able, which does suck. It’d be nice if it were, though.

    From this blog:

    However, from 10.4–10.6 it was possible to enable the default Cocoa
    scripting support via these Terminal commands:

    sudo defaults write /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/Info
NSAppleScriptEnabled -bool YES 

sudo chmod a+r /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/Info.plist

    This was sufficient to
    be able to get at the file of the current document to delete it,
    change its Finder label, import it into EagleFiler, etc. Under 10.7,
    modifying the Info.plist file breaks the application’s code signature.
    I would expect this to cause a harmless warning message in the
    Console, but it actually causes Preview to crash.

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