web pages to PDF automator workflow

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web pages to PDF automator workflow

I have seen a number of questions posted about this issue, but can't find any responses that resolve the issue. Is this beyond Automator's functionality or is the solution tied up with Applescripts.

I do massive amounts of web research and a solution would save me a great deal of time and button pushing. Has anyone any thoughts or helpfull pointers.

Many thanks

G4 Powerbook Titanium, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Aug 25, 2006 2:40 PM

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Answer 1

emilie.

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Aug 25, 2006 3:37 PM in response to Mr Badger

Hi,

Try http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/downloadurlsaspdfs.html

Hope it helps!

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Mr Badger Author

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Aug 26, 2006 5:40 PM in response to emilie.

Many thanks. I've tried it in a couple of likely workflows but can't seem to get it to work - this is probably more me being thick than it not working. If you have any thoughts on how to correctly place it in a workflow, I would be most grateful.

Regards

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emilie.

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Aug 26, 2006 7:18 PM in response to Mr Badger

Hi,

Could you give some more details about what you are trying to do, and what actions are in the workflows that aren't working for you?

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Answer 4

Aug 27, 2006 2:34 AM in response to Mr Badger

Why not just use File -> Print -> Print to PDF?

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Answer 5

Mr Badger Author

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Aug 27, 2006 12:57 PM in response to emilie.

I'm trying to grab a page from a web site and convert tyo pdf in one click. Given the volume of research I do this would ultimately save me time. This is also my first attempt at using Automator.

I've currently got the following actions in my workflow:
Get current Webpage from Safari
Download URLs as pdfs
New folder

I'm probably missing something fairly fundemental here.

Regards

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Answer 6

emilie.

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Aug 28, 2006 12:04 PM in response to Mr Badger

Hi,

I tried the following workflow:

- Get Current Webpage from Safari
- Download URLs as PDFs
- New Folder

on this thread page, and it seemed to work for me; it created a pdf called "thread.pdf" in the new folder that I created. Could you be a little more specific about what exactly isn't working for you, and which webpages you are trying this on? Thanks!

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Answer 7

Mr Badger Author

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Aug 29, 2006 1:58 AM in response to emilie.

Emilie

It wasn't working for me...but now it is. I now can't discover what I was doing wrong. It works extremely well and also seems to compress better than File>Print>Print to PDF, which is strange but very welcome.

Thank you for your time and patients

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