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Comment on Flatten Movies by Damien

Damien — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:36:52 +0000

Nevermind I got it working, apparently you can’t double click it to make it work you have to actually import it through the automator app

Comment on Flatten Movies by Damien

Damien — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:30:15 +0000

I’m running Leopard 10.5.8 and I can’t get your automator action v1.1 to work. I double click it and automator opens but the action isn’t added to automator. I’d love to be able to use this action but no matter what I do your action won’t import into automator.

Comment on Convert to PDF Version 1.2 by Ken Srimanunthiphol

Ken Srimanunthiphol — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:12:33 +0000

After downloading the .dmg file I cannot see any “.action” file. There is only “intall” package which is not working on automator.

I’m using SnowLeopard on 64bit.

What should I do next?

Thx

Ken

Comment on Convert to PDF Version 1.2 by Justin

Justin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:35:26 +0000

Hello. Im just interested to know if it there a version of ‘convert tot pdf’ for Tiger OS 10.4.11 ?

Comment on Convert to PDF Version 1.2 by julian

julian — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:00:45 +0000

Hi,
what’s the right way to uninstall “Convert to pdf”. Thanks.

Comment on Convert to PDF by William

William — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:55:32 +0000

Will upload a fixed version asap. I tag this as the most useful comment, thanks!

Comment on Convert to PDF by Jeremy Heslop

Jeremy Heslop — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:41:11 +0000

There was a blank link at the top of the file:

/Library/Automator/Convert to PDF.action/Contents/Resources/main.command

It kept the command from running and caused this error:

*** NSTask: Task create for path ‘/Library/Automator/Convert to PDF.action/Contents/Resources/main.command’ failed: 8, “Exec format error”. Terminating temporary process.

Once I removed the blank line at the top of main.command it worked great.

Comment on Convert to PDF Version 1.2 by Marco

Marco — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:12:02 +0000

Thank you for sharing your tool. I put your tool in a service in automator, now I can use it through the right click. unfortunately it doesn’t work. It just says that an error has been detected and I got no pdf. Cupsfilter through terminal works fine to convert the same file. I use snow Leopard.
greetings
Marco

Comment on Convert to PDF Version 1.1 by William

William — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:17:14 +0000

Hi bm1967,

thank you for you comment. I didn’t try to hide the fact that Convert to PDF is only a front-end to cupsfilter It is meant for people not at ease with shell script or command line, its an attempt to offer cupsfilter( sadly with its limitations) to automator folks. Did you try with cupsfilter on command-line? Could you please send me a sample file, which produces an error? Up until now I have no clue what people are trying to convert and what causes problems.

I investigated hard and deep, the sad conclusion is that without hacking through undocumented Apple API, there is no problematically way of calling Apple’s native save to pdf.

If you have a lot of docs of the same kind and you have the time and will to spend, I know of one sure path to proceed:
I would try to automate the Application, which shows your document the best, in such way, to print through a PDF printer.
F.ex Word can be automated with VBscript, nearly all mac applications support Applescript and a Cups-pdf printer can be found at codepoetry dot net: Cups-pdf-for-macosx

From dat point on, create a simple Automator frontend to print through the PDF printer.

Comment on Convert to PDF Version 1.1 by bm1967

bm1967 — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:01:56 +0000

I tried this automator but each time I run it, I get an error. Looking at the code you are using (cupsfilter, which is really a converter linked to it), I was a bit disappointed. What I am looking for is the ability to access Apple’s native ‘Print’ command that would enable me to save a file (any file) to PDF. The major difference between CUPs convert and Apple’s own ‘Print’ utility is the quality and active hyper links. Using cupsfilter, HTML pages come chopped up and not properly formatted. Too bad. I have a ton of HTML docs to convert so I guess, I will be still looking.

I was originally doing everything on the command line so when I saw your automator post, I was excited, for a second until I saw how you do it in the background….