Greetings all.
Has anyone used automator to convert a batch of jpg's into PDFs? (I am looking to do a 1 to 1 conversion, not merge multiple JPG's into 1 PDF).
I have over 1000 jogs that I have to convert, and I need to do preserve the file name. If anyone has been successful with this, would you be willing to share how you did it?
Thanks in advance and regards,
AJ
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
Hi,
Firecop1 wrote:
This did it! I went with your second option. I worked for jpgs but not jpegs. How would I modify it to convert both without having to go back in and change .jpg in the first line to .jpeg?
Thanks
AJ
Like this:
cd "$@" && for f in *.{jpeg,jpg}
do
sips -i -s format pdf "$f" -o "${f%.*}".pdf
doneNo error when the folder doesn't contains a ".jpeg" file, but an error will occur if you do not have at least one ".jpg" file in the folder.
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If you do not want to get error when the folder contains no ".jpg" file or neither, use this script:
shopt -s nullglob
cd "$@" && for f in *.{jpeg,jpg}
do
sips -i -s format pdf "$f" -o "${f%.*}".pdf
doneOne or multiple folders, and within the folder, are there sub-folders or just the pool of jpg images in the initial folder?
All of the jpg's are in one folder. It does not matter to me whether or not the coveted PDFs land in the same folder or in another folder.
Thanks not cloudy. I tried but was not able to find what I was looking for.
I am not sure if I am doing anything wrong but when I run the application, it prompts me for the folder. Once I choose it, the app window closes and nothing happens. Here is a shot of my screen
Fix the missing quotes in the Bash sips line that were in my posted image but not in yours. 😉 Then it will work.
Thanks Tony. I did what you suggested, Here is the debug info:
There is no output so its definitely not working
With the echo command....
Remove the echo command, and the >> ~/Desktop/debug.txt from the sips command line. Press command-S to save your application, and then run it again.
Yeah, the sips documentation does not mention PDF as a format type. Same as you — didn't realize until I did more Goog. Good thing too.
Thanks Jacques. I usually test with a space punctuated file, and this time I didn't. When I harden the script with your first example of IFS, it now accommodates files with holes in their names.
This did it! I went with your second option. I worked for jpgs but not jpegs. How would I modify it to convert both without having to go back in and change .jpg in the first line to .jpeg?
Thanks
AJ
I can't thank you enough for the help everyone. This just saved me hours of manual labor!.
Thanks again!
AJ
Hi all, I realize this thread is a couple of years old, but I'm trying to achieve the same thing and having a couple of problems with Jacques Rioux's (excellent) script.
The script runs, and does indeed convert the file,
however, in the finder if the file is named "filename.jpg"
it converts to a pdf of the same name (is this because I have the file suffixes showing?)
anyway, the result is then a pdf file with a .jpg name which is unreadable in preview until i manually change the name to "filename.pdf"
any suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated!
Hi all, I realize this thread is a couple of years old, but I'm trying to achieve the same thing and having a couple of problems with Jacques Rioux's (excellent) script.
The script runs, and does indeed convert the file,
however, in the finder if the file is named "filename.jpg"
it converts to a pdf of the same name (is this because I have the file suffixes showing?)
anyway, the result is then a pdf file with a .jpg name which is unreadable in preview until i manually change the name to "filename.pdf"
any suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated!
Convert a batch of jpgs into pdfs
