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Convert Images to Combined PDF 1.0
Function: Converts the selected images to a single PDF file.
Author: Rhet Turnbull
Notes: Files are ordered based on ascending name (since the Finder doesn’t pass selected items in the order they appear in the Finder window) but this can be changed by editing the workflow. The resultant PDF is opened in Preview and will need to be saved manually (the file is created in /private/tmp).
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Rhet, is there some way to stretch the images so they fit the page?
Comment by Matt — July 27, 2008 @ 11:33 pm
Peter, Preview is not scriptable so I don’t believe your suggestion would work. I certainly do wish that Preview was scriptable. The Preview Automator actions also do not allow one to export to PDF (at least on Tiger, I don’t know about Leopard).
Comment by Rhet Turnbull — July 27, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
Could this be changed to simply batch convert .eps and .ps files using Preview because Preview creates much smaller pdf files with Mac OS X 10.5.3 Quartz PDFContext than the regular unix pstopdf function?
Ideally the workflow would mirror a selected set of nested folders into a separate but identical set of nested folders containing the converted .pdf versions of the files.
This would be of enormous value to designers who need to convert large numbers of clipart collections from, the OSX unfriendly, .eps versions.
Comment by Peter Breis — June 22, 2008 @ 7:10 pm
awesome, I tried doing that. Thanks a lot for posting the workflow!!!
Comment by Chris — April 14, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
Ignore my previous post. It turns out the default Preview app automator action also dumps the resulting tmp file into /private/tmp. So all my attempts at securing this are come to naught. Maybe I’ll look at the python script that underlies it.
Comment by Kristofer — October 2, 2007 @ 1:27 am