Preview, Applescript & Mountain Lion

Just a warning:
Because the “Preview” app has been un-AppleScript-able since forever, homegrown terminal commands are recommended to make it scriptable, such as:
“Quit Preview.app, then open a terminal and enter:
“sudo defaults write /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/Info NSAppleScriptEnabled -bool true
“sudo chmod 644 /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/Info.plist
“sudo codesign -f -s - /Applications/Preview.app”
This is a warning about this terminal solution -- it is terminal for Preview.
In previous OS versions I’ve been doing this for years, but these commands fry the Preview application in Mountain Lion. Preview no longer will run, in my experience — I did it twice (“fool me once…”). This is bad because even if you’ve backed up Preview, Mountain Lion will not let you replace the corrupt preview with good version, because a system app like Preview cannot be modified.

You are welcome. Good solution to fix the problem.
Before someone else jumps in, always logging on as the Root User does have the potential for creating a giant oops........... End of Sermon
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