At 12:57 pm -0800 16/1/06, Paul Berkowitz wrote: >But its file name displayed in the Preview title bar >does end in .pdf, viz > >A4143742-9962-4A50-B789-6F7E0BB15AB8-1679-0000093E459F2615.pdf > >Quite a file name. No idea where it's located, Even Spotlight can't find it. I wrote in my last message where it is, but that's only where Preview decides to create it; other apps will save it in different locations. echo sometext | open -f echo sometext | open -f -a textedit echo sometext | open -f -a bbedit >Perhaps it has only a "virtual" reality (i.e. it's an unsaved document): It is STDOUT piped to STDIN >Preview is an app that shows a file's path hierarchy when you click on the >title bar...It must be an unsaved document, although Preview itself >is a read-only app. It is not an unsaved document, and if you run the scripts above you will be able to see where BBEdit or TextEdit saves the docs: Eremita:/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems jd$ ls 109141AC-3922-4B76-A2CB-B81C19C4B7E7-7993-00000828C82C426A.txt JD