Comments on: Images to PDFs http://automatorworld.com/archives/images-to-pdfs/ Better Living Through Macintosh Scripting Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:32:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: algal http://automatorworld.com/archives/images-to-pdfs/comment-page-1/#comment-11825 algal Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:18:23 +0000 http://www.automatorworld.com/?p=91#comment-11825 <p>Just realized that Apple provides an example of using CoreGraphics to convert an image to a pdf in /Developer/Examples/Quartz/Python/image.py. This would probably be the place to start writing an Automator action that did so.</p> Just realized that Apple provides an example of using CoreGraphics to convert an image to a pdf in /Developer/Examples/Quartz/Python/image.py. This would probably be the place to start writing an Automator action that did so.

]]> By: algal http://automatorworld.com/archives/images-to-pdfs/comment-page-1/#comment-11824 algal Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:01:42 +0000 http://www.automatorworld.com/?p=91#comment-11824 <p>Hi,</p> <p>Preview.app already has the capacity to convert images into pdfs by doing a "print to pdf" of the image. Would it be possible to remove the dependency on fink's imagemagick by writing an app that just used Preview?</p> Hi,

Preview.app already has the capacity to convert images into pdfs by doing a “print to pdf” of the image. Would it be possible to remove the dependency on fink’s imagemagick by writing an app that just used Preview?

]]> By: AAron http://automatorworld.com/archives/images-to-pdfs/comment-page-1/#comment-1716 AAron Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:16:44 +0000 http://www.automatorworld.com/?p=91#comment-1716 <p>Matt, I like the look of this workflow. It looks like Fink doesn't want to install on my OSX Tiger. In which case, how would I change the Run Applescript action to the Desktop, or somewhere. Thanks, AAron</p> Matt, I like the look of this workflow. It looks like Fink doesn’t want to install on my OSX Tiger. In which case, how would I change the Run Applescript action to the Desktop, or somewhere. Thanks, AAron

]]> By: tanner http://automatorworld.com/archives/images-to-pdfs/comment-page-1/#comment-1470 tanner Fri, 02 Dec 2005 08:26:37 +0000 http://www.automatorworld.com/?p=91#comment-1470 <p>hello, thanks for the workflow. i started changing the applescript as it would not handle filenames with spaces, and eventually just created a script to do the whole job. here it is.</p> <p>tell application "Finder" to set the selected_pics to selection</p> <p>repeat with i from 1 to the count of selected<em>pics set pic</em>item to (item i of selected<em>pics) as alias set in</em>pic to POSIX path of pic<em>item set out</em>pic to (removeExtension(in<em>pic)) & ".pdf" do shell script "/sw/bin/convert" & " " & quoted form of in</em>pic & " " & quoted form of out<em>pic end repeat return selected</em>pics end run</p> <p>-- remove extension</p> <p>on removeExtension(in<em>pic) set out</em>pic to {} set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "." return first text item of in_pic end removeExtension</p> hello, thanks for the workflow. i started changing the applescript as it would not handle filenames with spaces, and eventually just created a script to do the whole job. here it is.

tell application “Finder” to set the selected_pics to selection

repeat with i from 1 to the count of selectedpics set picitem to (item i of selectedpics) as alias set inpic to POSIX path of picitem set outpic to (removeExtension(inpic)) & “.pdf” do shell script “/sw/bin/convert” & ” ” & quoted form of inpic & ” ” & quoted form of outpic end repeat return selectedpics end run

– remove extension

on removeExtension(inpic) set outpic to {} set AppleScript’s text item delimiters to “.” return first text item of in_pic end removeExtension

]]> By: Matt Moriarity http://automatorworld.com/archives/images-to-pdfs/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Matt Moriarity Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:44:04 +0000 http://www.automatorworld.com/?p=91#comment-168 <p>Maarten: you need to have ImageMagick installed via Fink. If you install ImageMagick some other way, you need to change the path in the Run Applescript action.</p> Maarten: you need to have ImageMagick installed via Fink. If you install ImageMagick some other way, you need to change the path in the Run Applescript action.

]]> By: Maarten http://automatorworld.com/archives/images-to-pdfs/comment-page-1/#comment-151 Maarten Mon, 30 May 2005 16:21:06 +0000 http://www.automatorworld.com/?p=91#comment-151 <p>Hi James</p> <p>this workflow doesnt seem to be working for me. i have ImageMagick installed.</p> <p>While running the apple script, i get an error saying it cannot find '/sw/sbin/convert'</p> <p>i have been trying to find the appropriate file on my mac, but it is nowhere on my system. i don't know what package this file is supposed to be part of.</p> <p>Any help/suggestion would be greatly appreciated.</p> <p>With best regards Maarten</p> Hi James

this workflow doesnt seem to be working for me. i have ImageMagick installed.

While running the apple script, i get an error saying it cannot find ‘/sw/sbin/convert’

i have been trying to find the appropriate file on my mac, but it is nowhere on my system. i don’t know what package this file is supposed to be part of.

Any help/suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

With best regards Maarten

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