10.4: Edit PDF actions in the Print dialog

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Tue, May 10 2005 at 10:03AM PDT • Contributed by: frankf

When you print in 10.4, there's an updated PDF pop-down menu from which you can pick certain actions.

These actions are merely Automator workflows in the /Library/PDF Services folder. You can change these, or make your own very easily. You can even make your own Automator workflow, and save it wherever you want, and add it via the "Edit this Menu" option in the PDF pop-down button menu.

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10.4: Edit PDF actions in the Print dialog
Authored by: DougAdams on Tue, May 10 2005 at 10:57AM PDT

You can also include AppleScripts and aliases to apps that can open PDFs. They will then appear in the PDF pop-up. See this at Apple's site.

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Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/

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10.4: Edit PDF actions in the Print dialog
Authored by: PeteVerdon on Wed, May 11 2005 at 6:58AM PDT

Plus shell scripts, Perl scripts and probably compiled programs too. Search on PDF Workflow on this site to find examples.

Pete

10.4: Edit PDF actions in the Print dialog
Authored by: JohnnyMnemonic on Tue, May 17 2005 at 11:16PM PDT

nb: if you can't get these to work, determine if you are a file vault user. For whatever reason, I found that my filevault user's couldn't use some of the pdf workflow actions, but other users on the same machine had no trouble.

In particular, it seems like "create pdf in web-receipts folder" would fail with a FV user.

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