is there a way to print the NAME OF MY FILE on a Preview document that does not make my head explode?
can i do this in OTHER SOFTWARE reasonably conveniently?
also can anyone explain to me the way this is done as a practical matter? i mean - in windows OS this seems easy no matter what the software is and in mac it is more involved for some reason?
THANK YOU
MacBook Air 11", macOS 10.13
What software are you using to create the PDF? That would be the place to start, and could give you the opportunity to place the filename in the header/footer of every page. As a PDF is no longer a word processing document, all you can do is place a text box annotation with the PDF document name in it, on the first page of the PDF. Annotations are not global, and will not appear on every page.
When you open a PDF in Preview, the document name is shown in the title bar. Click that, and a panel opens with the PDF filename already selected. Simply copy that and paste into the text box you created in the first paragraph.
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hi gents. not sure if i worded that correctly because i was probably was not thinking straight. because i was remembering i meant to figure this out ten years ago when i moved back to mac.
say i want to do something as “simple” as put them name of a document on a png or gif or jpg file so when i print fifty of them out i don’t have to do this manually over the course of an hour.
or say i am printing a text file. or twenty five txt files. how would i get the name of the document on the document in those cases?
or i need to study scripting to do this?!
hey BD.
i didn’t pic you exactly what you we’re laying down.
you are saying to open the mage files in Graphic Converter instead of Preview?
and just hit a radio button?
can i just ask you here if i lose goodies like sidebar preview functionality in Preview when i open in GC?
do i pick anything up off the top of your head?
THANKS
Well, for PDFs the sidebar is gone in GC, you have Next/Last. Arrows or input Page#.
But yes it's just a matter of checking checking 1 or more boxes in the Print Dialog.
Here's a near 2,000 page PDF...
Again, that feature is built in to GC...
printing NAME OF FILE on pages (in Preview and other)
