{"id":20574,"date":"2015-12-06T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T08:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20574"},"modified":"2020-06-18T09:24:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T08:24:46","slug":"pdf-to-png-automator-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/12\/pdf-to-png-automator-script\/","title":{"rendered":"PDF to PNG Automator Script – Batch Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A bit of a geeky post for you today and a quick and easy way to batch process a PDF to PNG’s using Automator. In fact it allows you to batch process a multi-page pdf file into a number of image types if you wish. You may think this is a bit of an obscure thing to be doing, but it’s something I do fairly regularly during the production of our Weblog Book<\/a>, so here’s how to do it using an Automator Application script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PDF to PNG Automator Workflow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Batch Process PDF to PNG Automator Script<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  1. Open Automator<\/li>
  2. Choose “Application”<\/li>
  3. Drag the “Render PDF Pages to Images” action onto the workflow.You could leave it at that but this action produces random filenames so it’s nice to follow it with a “Rename Finder Items” action as well.<\/li>
  4. Drag the “Rename Finder Items” action into the workflow (choose “Make sequential” from the dropdown list<\/li>
  5. Then add a “Move Finder Items” action to the workflow and decide where you want your new files to be saved.<\/li>
  6. Save your new application somewhere – call it something sensible like “PDF to PNG”<\/li>
  7. To use your new application simply drag files onto it within Finder.<\/li>
  8. Enjoy.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    ‘Automator Applications’ are self-running workflows which means that any files or folders dropped onto an Automator Application will be used as input to the workflow. So, all you have to do is drop a PDF file onto this new ‘PDF to PNG’ Automator Application and hey presto, it’ll convert the PDF file for you, converting each page of the PDF file into a PNG image and saving it to the folder you specified in the workflow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Some Background.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n