Comments on: PDF to PNG Automator Script – Batch Processing https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/12/pdf-to-png-automator-script/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Thu, 18 Jun 2020 08:24:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/12/pdf-to-png-automator-script/#comment-52351 Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:57:36 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20574#comment-52351 Brilliant – thank you! Worked on the first try. I think there’s a minor step missing – after opening the Automator and choosing ‘Application’, you need to select ‘New’ from the File menu. It might also be helpful to specify that you when you drag a PDF directly onto the new application, you do so in Finder.

]]> By: Alan Cole https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/12/pdf-to-png-automator-script/#comment-38428 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:48:38 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20574#comment-38428 Well, I had an email from Blurb saying that the last volume of our weblog book that I uploaded was too large for their printers so it was time to make some changes to the file so that I could get it printed ready for Christmas. They suggested added the images to their booksmart application as jpegs rather than png’s. A quick change to the Automator Application so that it saved the files as jpg’s rather than png’s should do the trick and hey presto in no time at all a job that would have taken hours was done and the book was once again ready to be sent off for printing, this time full of jpg images rather than png’s.

This took the file size from 5.74GB down to 1.38GB so hopefully it’ll be OK for their printers. I just hope that no image quality has been lost in the process. It’s still going to take the best part of 12 hours for me to upload that over our Internet connection but at least the process of batch processing was much quicker.

Al.

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