I've been searching for an answer to this for quite some time. I've searched discussions and everything on all these mac forum websites. Hopefully someone that has knowledge with automator or scripts or command line will have an answer for me. I have an 80-some odd page pdf that contains a conflation of several organic chemistry lectures that were important throughout the semester. Due to the fact that I am a student, poor as can be, I cannot spend my money on Adobe acrobat (unless someone has $150-200 they would like to send me). If you've been in my situation before,.you know don't have the time. to sit at your computer and copy, PAGE BY PAGE, the thumbnails in Preview.app into the said Pages.app or Word.app document (or.jpeg, png, etc.).
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I plan on using the 80-some page lecture (already in pdf form) as a background for each succeeding document page either in Pages.app or Word.app. This will make it extremely easy for me to free-write, annotate and make links within the document as I please. Yes, I do realize that it is entirely possible to do some of these annotations in Preview.app but I assure you, this would be a lot easier to present or review if I could add these pdf pages as backgrounds in a pages/word.app document. I do not have the original powerpoints these came from.
(Oh, I apologize if I sound redundant; I'm just trying to articulate my issue by the best means possible to avoid confusion. Even though - I'm sure I did). Create a folder on your Desktop - for the purposes of this demo it's called 'test'. Create this Automator workflow: The item 'Render PDF Pages as Images' comes Library/PDFs in the sidebar. The rest come from Library/Files & Folders.
Set them up as indicated (or amend the details to suit), selecting your destination folder in the last step. Save as an application.
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When double-clicked this will produce a JPEG image for each page (it will take several minutes during which you will get no indication that anything is happening). You will still have to feed the images into Pages and resize them, probably one at a time - at present I can't see a way of automating this. I use my brain and search on the net when I don't know the way to do this or that.
I discovered PDFsam searching with the simple keystring: pdf AND mac AND split in Google. As I wrote, my main problem was to find the way to use it because the Graphical Interface is far from Apple standards. For the scripts, most of the required informations are available in the Pages AppleScript dictionary.
When a task can't be done with standard AppleScript, I try to use GUI scripting. At this time I'm really bored because resources designed to print separated pages in a PDF are available but the app refuse to take them in account. I will have to file a new bug report (before I must check if I already sent one about this subject). Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 19 avril 2010 16:47:25. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums.
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