Click on the toolbar and give the workflow a name, such as Contact Sheets, and move it to the Desktop. Click on PDFs in the Library and drag New PDF Contact Sheet into the main window. Choose New from Automator’s File menu. A new workflow document will open covered by an open template sheet. Click the Service (gear icon) option from the template and then the Continue button. The open document will be converted into a system service workflow. Configure the service input controls 1 to accept PDF files selected in the Finder. Hi, The Contact Sheet II plug-in code is well aged but rigid, so porting to run in 64 bit applications was cost prohibitive. It also made more sense to rewrite and improve on the feature set using Bridge, since it allows you to browse, and collect multiple images much quicker than with Ps alone. Automate for Efficiency With Hitachi Ops Center Automator. Read this datasheet to learn how Hitachi Ops Center Automator helps you automate data center operations to improve IT operational efficiency and the storage provisioning process, freeing your staff to focus on new innovations. Document Outline. In Automator, create a new workflow and choose the PDF Print Plugin option from the template sheet, and add the following actions to the new workflow. 1 Render PDF Pages as Images. Add this action that renders the PDF file generated by the print architecture into a high-resolution image file. In the action view, set the image format to JPEG.

Automator: Print Plugins (PDF)

By default, Automator includes a workflow template for processing PDF files generated when the user selects a Print Plugin workflow from the PDF popup menu in the application Print dialog.

The following example details the creation of an Automator PDF Print Plugin that adds a new slide containing an image of the current map in the Maps app, to a new slide in a Keynote presentation.

Example: Export Map to Keynote as Image

This 3-action workflow renders an image from the PDF file generated using the PDF popup menu in the Maps print dialog. It includes an AppleScript script (provided here) that performs the task of creating a new slide in Keynote and importing the image rendered by the first workflow action. The workflow ends by “cleaning-up after itself” by deleting the generated image file after the import process has completed.

DOWNLOAD the example Print Plugin workflow file.

1 The Automator Print Plugin workflow document.

2 The input banner declares that the workflow receives PDF files from the macOS print system as the workflow input.

3 The Render PDF Pages as Images action will render the printed PDF pages to images of the indicated format and resolution. Each PDF page will be rendered to a single image file, which will be passed to the next action for processing.

4 The Run AppleScript action contains the AppleScript script shown below that creates a new image slide in the frontmost Keynote document for each of the rendered PDF pages. If no presentation is currently open, a new one will be created. References to the rendered images passed as input to this action will be passed through to the next action.

5 The Move Finder Items to the Trash action will delete the images files previously rendered into the user’s Temporary Items folder.

The AppleScript Script

The following AppleScript script is designed to process the rendered images passed to it as input. Each image file will be placed on a new slide in the frontmost Keynote document. To use in a workflow, add the Run AppleScript action to the workflow and replaces its default contents with this script.

on run {input, parameters} try if the class of input is not list then set input to input as list tell application id 'com.apple.iWork.Keynote' activate if not (exists document 1) then make new document end if tell the front document set docWidth to its width set docHeight to its height set the masterSlideNames to the name of every master slide repeat with i from 1 to the count of input set aImageFile to item i of input if 'Blank' is in the masterSlideNames then set aSlide to ¬ make new slide with properties {base slide:master slide 'Blank'} else set aSlide to make new slide end if tell aSlide set aImage to make new image with properties {file:aImageFile} end tell tell aImage set imgWidth to its width set imgHeight to its height end tell -- new image height based on setting new image width to slide width set newImgHeight to (imgHeight * docWidth) / imgWidth -- check to see if new image height is greater than or equal to doc height if newImgHeight is greater than or equal to docHeight then set newImgWidth to docWidth -- center image vertically set vOffset to ((newImgHeight - docHeight) / 2) * -1 set hOffset to 0 else -- scale image height to match slide height set newImgHeight to docHeight set newImgWidth to (docHeight * imgWidth) / imgHeight -- center image horizontally set vOffset to 0 set hOffset to ((newImgWidth - docWidth) / 2) * -1 end if tell aImage set its width to newImgWidth set its height to newImgHeight set its position to {hOffset, vOffset} end tell end repeat end tell end tell on error errorMessage display dialog errorMessage buttons {'Cancel'} default button 1 end try return inputend run

New Image Slide(s)
01	onrun {input, parameters}
02	try
03	if the class of input is not list then set input to input as list
04
05	tell applicationid'com.apple.iWork.Keynote'
06	activate
07
08	if not (existsdocument 1) then
09	makenewdocument
10	end if
11
12	tell the front document
13	setdocWidth to its width
14	setdocHeight to its height
15
16	set the masterSlideNames to the name of every master slide
17
18	repeat with i from 1 to the count of input
19	setaImageFile to item i of input
20
21	if 'Blank' is in the masterSlideNames then
22	setaSlide to ¬
23	makenewslide with properties {base slide:master slide'Blank'}
24	else
25	setaSlide to makenewslide
26	end if
27
28	tell aSlide
29	setaImage to makenewimage with properties {file:aImageFile}
30	end tell
31
32	tell aImage
33	setimgWidth to its width
34	setimgHeight to its height
35	end tell
36
37	-- image height based on setting new image width to slide width
38	setnewImgHeight to (imgHeight * docWidth) / imgWidth
39	-- is new image height greater than or equal to doc height?
40	if newImgHeight is greater than or equal to docHeight then
41	setnewImgWidth to docWidth
42	-- center image vertically
43

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