Re: How to Merge, Reduce and save a PDF via Automator
Re: How to Merge, Reduce and save a PDF via Automator
- Subject: Re: How to Merge, Reduce and save a PDF via Automator
- From: Lars Blumberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:26:53 +0700
> this is what I tried ... but that doesn't work out.
> But last night I found my problem. What I was
> missing, was a action to "get the finder object".
> After putting that in between, it works all fine.
> I guess it's a typical automator newbe problem.
This usually is not necessary. Can you post your complete action sequence?
>
> Thanks for you quick help!
> Now it works very well. :)
Glad to hear that!
>
> The only part where I'm still not happy with, is the
> fact that it's pretty poor what fields of metadata you
> could modify in a PDF with Automator. Is there any
> 3th party solution, which could do more than the
> default shipped solution by apple?
You can run any command line tool using the action "Run Shell Script". Use the output value of your last action as the input for this action. Read [1] for how to access this output and read [2] for a PDF command line tool that allows you to change metadata.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1857050/using-apples-automator-to-pass-filenames-to-a-shell-script
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5880226/set-pdf-metadata-via-ruby-or-command-line-tool
>
> Greez Jens
>
> Ps: Have a nice day and week end.
Thank you, you, too.
Lars
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> Am 18.06.2011 um 03:30 schrieb Lars Blumberg:
>
>>> Hy,
>>>
>>> I try to create a (hopefully) simple Automator action:
>>>
>>> 1. Select a Folder
>>> 2. Get all PDF in that Folder
>>> 3. Merge all PDF to one PDF
>>> 4. Reduce the Pictures inside of the Merged PDF
>>> 5. Set new Metadata to that PDF
>>> 6. Ask for a filename and place for that new PDF
>>>
>>> Beside the Step Nr. "6" I could get all things going.
>>> But I don't find a way to even store the new created PDF.
>>> I google a lot, but all the tips are outdated or broken :(
>>
>>
>> Hi Jens, since Automator already creates a temporary file for the merged file, you need to add the actions "Copy Finder Items" to specify the target folder and "Rename Finder Items" using the option "Name Single Item". Selection the option "Show this action when the workflow runs" to have the user change the target folder for "Copy Finder Items" and to change the filename in "Rename Finder Items".
>>
>> Is it that what you want?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Lars
>>
>>>
>>> Any hints are very welcome!
>>> Many thanks in advance! ;)
>>>
>>> ( I'm on a MacBookPro 5,1 & OsX 10.6.7 )
>>>
>>> Greez Jens
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