Setting default preferences (CS3)

PrinterPresets are a collection.

You will need to use app.printerPresets.add() for each preset you want

and add it with whatever properties you need.

Harbs

First thing to do is grasp the difference between name of an object and name of a property

"TransformPreference" is the name of an object -- a 'type', just as "Number" is, and "String", and lots of Others. As sort of convention, these are written with an initial capital. You cannot assign a value to an object; you need a variable of that type instead. And an object, in turn, may contain new variables (its 'properties').

So, if I say that an Application contains an object TransformPreference that has a property adjustStrokeWeightWhenScaling, you cannot literally copy-and-paste everything together. Besides, you really have to check case usage. Javascript is Case Sensitive!

• "app" is the name of the Application object we are working with (you got that right)
• the transform preference object is called 'transformPreferences'
• and that, in turn, has a boolean 'dimensionsIncludeStrokeWeight' (note case)

So a full assignment line would be

app.transformPreferences.dimensionsIncludeStrokeWeight = false;

or, in the alternative notation

with(app.transformPreferences) {
dimensionsIncludeStrokeWeight = false;
adjustStrokeWeightWhenScaling = false;
}

(which reminds me, where did you ever get "ScaleStrokes" from?)

The Print Preference thingy is something different. The "application" doesn't have any print preferences you can set! Only a Document or a Book (which is kind of a document, I suppose) can have these. The print preferences are what "get changed" if you take a print preset and change those before actually pressing the 'print' button.

The short of it is that you cannot set default 'print preferences' for the program; however, that ought not to be a problem because that's what Print Presets are for. And you don't need a script to save/restore these.