macOS AppleScript...am I just dumb?

I have never really programmed anything before other than a TI-83 calculator in high school years ago... but I got my Mac in January, and I was curious to try out AppleScripts, since the OS X overview implied it was so easy.
All I want to do is tell it to print a bunch of pdf files without printing the first page of any of them (pages 2-?). I decided to try it out by just opening one of the files. Preview wasn't in the list of programs to use AppleScripts with, so I decided to use Safari. I made the following script:

tell application "Safari"
open file "Macintosh HD/Excerpts/Wagner/Lohengrin_prelude.pdf"
end tell

This was following what little basic information I could find in AppleScript help and online at <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleScript/Conceptual/AppleScriptLangGuide/AppleScript.fd.html>

However, when I try to run this script, Safari tells me that there is no file at that address!

Did I do something wrong?

Thanks

Tommy

Actually, I dragged the "Excerpts" folder directly in Macintosh HD myself to uncomplicate things when typing it in the script...it was in my Desktop before.

Thanks for the reply

HexMonkey said:

Changing the slashes to colons should fix it.

ie

Code:

tell application "Safari"
	open file "Macintosh HD:Excerpts:Wagner:Lohengrin_prelude.pdf"
end tell

Click to expand...

Thanks HexMonkey...that worked. Now...the question is, how do I tell it to print a file omitting page 1? Is there a way to do this without specifying the ending page?

Thanks all