[AS CS3] Printing PostScript

Question

Hi-
I am trying to set the postscript printing settings within the script rather
than relying on the user to have there print style set correctly. I am
having trouble with the paper height and paper width settings. It errors
saying it expected a number or string. As far as I can tell I am giving it
a number.
When I was using a print style, I was able to set the paper height and paper
width just fine.
Any ideas?
Karen Nielsen
R&D Specialist
1101 Frontage Rd NW
Byron, MN 55920
[email protected]
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
tell front document
set ruler origin of view preferences to page origin
set zero point to {0, 0}
set DocProps to bounds of page 1
set myPageHeight to item 3 of DocProps as real
set myPageWidth to item 4 of DocProps as real
set PaperHeight to (myPageHeight + 0.25) as real
set PaperWidth to (myPageWidth + 0.25) as real
End tell
set theStyle to make printer preset with properties {name:"Karen", use
document bleed to print:false, bleed top:0.125, bleed bottom:0.125, bleed
inside:0.125, bleed outside:0.125, color output:composite leave unchanged,
page position:centered, flattener preset name:"[High Resolution]", print
layers:visible layers, print page orientation:portrait, download PPD
fonts:true, PostScript level:level 3, mark offset:0.125, crop marks:true,
font downloading:complete, OPI image replacement:false, scale height:100,
scale width:100, send image data:all image data}
tell document 1
tell print preferences
set active printer preset to theStyle
set printer to postscript file
set print file to (PrinergyFolder & myJobNumFinal & "_"
& VerCode & ".ps") as Unicode text
set page range to (item i of myPageList as string)
set paper size to custom
set paper height to PaperHeight
set paper width to PaperWidth
set data format to binary
end tell
print without print dialog
end tell
End tell

Answer 1

Having the same issue with custom page sizes (CS3/10.5.5). This is not the same issue that is resolved by using "Defined by driver" in CS3 apps. That problem affected Fiery-based RIPs and was introduced with Leopard.
MacFixIt.com (http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080917093457409) is running a story on it with some success stories. I've already restarted CUPS, reinstalled the printers, repaired disk permissions and tried the "Defined by driver" approach (that doesn't work so well when you want to print custom page sizes to a platesetter or large format).
Next is reinstalling CUPS (http://www.cups.org/ddk/software.php), then reverting back to 10.5.4 (if I can figure out how).
All the while, Apple will blame Adobe and the printer driver, Adobe will blame Apple and the printer driver, and our prepress grinds to a halt.