[Solved] Difficulties Using Macros
Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 9:28 pm
I recently upgraded from GC9 to GC11 and was pleased to see that 11 has a macro feature. However, I am having no luck getting any macros to work. I can create a macro and save it, and the name appears at the bottom of the macro icon pull-down. I would have expected that selecting it on that list would activate the macro but no such thing happens. So next I chose C&M with Use Batch checked and Execute Macro as the sole action in the batch table. Still no results.
The operation I want to perform seems simple enough: increase the canvas size of a pdf, from the center (from 7.81" width to 8.3, and from 10.6" length to 11.3, with color set to white and remember previous values checked), and save. This sequence works fine when done manually, although suspiciously the ctrl-shift-command-A keyboard shortcut works only occasionally (and the shortcut ctrl-command-A for margins never works— a possible clue?)
I have also tried using Canvas Size as the only function in the batch table. But in specifying the desired dimensions there the only units available are points, and the relationship between point sizes here and point sizes on the document itself remains a mystery to me. In points, what I want is a document 583 x 812 points. But if I specify those dimensions in creating the batch table, what I get is a file that radically crops the original down to a 280 x 390 points excerpt from the original.
So far I've found nothing in the manual that seems to address my problem. Any ideas?
The operation I want to perform seems simple enough: increase the canvas size of a pdf, from the center (from 7.81" width to 8.3, and from 10.6" length to 11.3, with color set to white and remember previous values checked), and save. This sequence works fine when done manually, although suspiciously the ctrl-shift-command-A keyboard shortcut works only occasionally (and the shortcut ctrl-command-A for margins never works— a possible clue?)
I have also tried using Canvas Size as the only function in the batch table. But in specifying the desired dimensions there the only units available are points, and the relationship between point sizes here and point sizes on the document itself remains a mystery to me. In points, what I want is a document 583 x 812 points. But if I specify those dimensions in creating the batch table, what I get is a file that radically crops the original down to a 280 x 390 points excerpt from the original.
So far I've found nothing in the manual that seems to address my problem. Any ideas?