Re: Anyone here a wizz on Automator?
On 26/08/2005, at 5:14 PM, Andrew Schox wrote: Rod, Just wondering if someone might be able to help me out. I have an archive of web pages that form an online manual. All in all, there are about 380 different HTML pages. Is there anyone that can make an automator workflow that will convert each of these pages into a pdf, then combine the pdf into one? Just to digress a little (and I know br all about Automator), there is an excellent product called HelpLogic which allows you to develop HTML help systems and deploy it as Apple Help, Microsoft Help, Web-based help, UniHelp (their own product), and - soon to come - PDF and Printed. This may or may not be useful to you (you may be able to bulk import your HTML), but I am starting to use it to deploy a text book which I am working on, and it' s looking promising. Since we are digressing. Acrobat creates this type of document from a Web Page (links etc..), that is of course if one has this product? Or you can use the converter already in the system ie to convert X.html to X.pdf do: /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert -f X.html -o X.pdf Now, to turn that into an Automator workflow :) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt
Re: Anyone here a wizz on Automator?
On 26/08/2005, at 2:49 PM, Rod wrote: Hi All! Just wondering if someone might be able to help me out. I have an archive of web pages that form an online manual. All in all, there are about 380 different HTML pages. Is there anyone that can make an automator workflow that will convert each of these pages into a pdf, then combine the pdf into one? Seeya Rod! Hi Rod, Well, to combine the PDF's, this might help. But first you have to convert the HTML pages?? Use Automator to combine PDFs: There have been numerous hints here about how to combine PDFs into a single document. Well, Automator now handles that task very nicely. You can select the documents that you want to combine in the Finder and then Control-click on them to bring up the contextual menu. Choose Automator - Create Workflow. Once Automator opens, add three steps to your Untitled workflow: Finder: Get Selected Finder Items. Actually, this one is automatically added if you had the files selected in the Finder. PDF: Combine PDF Pages (I choose Appending pages). Finder: Open Finder Items (Open with Default Application). This will combine everything, then open up a Preview document with all the PDF pages nicely laid out in one document. You can save the workflow if you do this on a regular basis. Then Control-clicking on a group of PDFs will give you a contextual menu with your workflow ready to go. Cheers, Ronni When Microsoft asks you, Where do you want to go today? Tell them, Apple!
Re: Anyone here a wizz on Automator?
On 26/08/2005, at 2:49 PM, Rod wrote: Hi All! Just wondering if someone might be able to help me out. I have an archive of web pages that form an online manual. All in all, there are about 380 different HTML pages. Is there anyone that can make an automator workflow that will convert each of these pages into a pdf, then combine the pdf into one? Seeya Rod! Hi Rod, This might be what you are looking for. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/pdfconverter.html About PDF Converter Open Automator and select the PDF icon you will see PDF Converter. You can combine with other actions to integrate a complete task and save as a workflow. The PDF Converter includes a workflow file. After you install it in a proper location, you then have the ability to use Contextual Menu to convert files to PDF format. Cheers, Ronni When Microsoft asks you, Where do you want to go today? Tell them, Apple!
Re: Anyone here a wizz on Automator?
On 26/08/2005, at 14:49 , Rod wrote: Hi All! Just wondering if someone might be able to help me out. I have an archive of web pages that form an online manual. All in all, there are about 380 different HTML pages. Is there anyone that can make an automator workflow that will convert each of these pages into a pdf, then combine the pdf into one? How about this: http://www.automatorworld.com/2005/08/07/download- urls-as-pdfs/ However, making a list of all the URLs is the tricky part. If you have a page that links to all your other pages, you could make a workflow from Get Link URLs from Webpages -- Download URLs as PDFs. But a Workflow like this fails: Ask for Finder Items -- Download URLs as PDFs because The first action passes file references that don't look like URLs. I'd be interested to hear how you end up solving this. -Josh
Re: Anyone here a wizz on Automator?
On 26/08/2005, at 3:41 PM, Rod wrote: On 26/08/2005, at 3:16 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 26/08/2005, at 2:49 PM, Rod wrote: Hi All! Just wondering if someone might be able to help me out. I have an archive of web pages that form an online manual. All in all, there are about 380 different HTML pages. Is there anyone that can make an automator workflow that will convert each of these pages into a pdf, then combine the pdf into one? Seeya Rod! Hi Rod, This might be what you are looking for. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/pdfconverter.html Close, but no cigar! Doesn't do html pages :-( But along the right track though! I can get one page opened in Safari, then converted using Automator, but I don't want to open 300-odd individual pages! This is precisely what Automator was made for :-) Seeya Rod! PS Go Dockers! Yeah ok Rod Go Little Dorkers! There is a guy here wanting to do the same as you. Might be worth keeping an eye on: http://www.automatorworld.com/2005/05/05/text-to-pdf/#comment-90 Is there a way to extract the ‘convert to pdf’ action? i have a folder full of hundreds of html files that i want to convert to pdf and combine. Cheers, Ronni PS 'Time for a glass of Red'
Re: Anyone here a wizz on Automator?
Rod, Just wondering if someone might be able to help me out. I have an archive of web pages that form an online manual. All in all, there are about 380 different HTML pages. Is there anyone that can make an automator workflow that will convert each of these pages into a pdf, then combine the pdf into one? Just to digress a little (and I know br all about Automator), there is an excellent product called HelpLogic which allows you to develop HTML help systems and deploy it as Apple Help, Microsoft Help, Web-based help, UniHelp (their own product), and - soon to come - PDF and Printed. This may or may not be useful to you (you may be able to bulk import your HTML), but I am starting to use it to deploy a text book which I am working on, and it' s looking promising. You can check it out at: http://www.ebutterfly.com/helplogic/ Cheers, Andrew
