It’s amazing just how difficult it can be to automatically render HTML files to lightweight PDF documents.

Each PDF is then closed, Preview is closed, and the saved PDFs are revealed in Finder.Automatically Converting HTML to PDF on Mac Once you click Choose, the PDF files will be saved in the order they were opened, using the filenames of the template PDFs (but without the prefix). When run, the script will open a file system dialog that will allow you to select a folder where you would like the processed PDFs to be saved. Instructions on how to make a systemwide service with Automator can be found at that link. You can incorporate the script into an Automator service, and assign a keyboard shortcut to it. To use the script, allow all 11 PDFs to be processed to open in Preview, then run the script. In the script below, change the value of the property templatesFolder (line 1) to reflect the path to the folder where the PDF templates can be found. , 10-, 11- to indicate the order in which processed PDFs will be saved (it is important that templates 1-9 have a leading 0 in front). So the automator would need to know which filenames to assign to each PDF in order.Ĭreate a folder where your 11 PDF templates can reside permanently. Fortunately the PDF files are printed/created in a specific sequence and Preview opens the files in that sequence and they appear in the same sequence as I manually Save As and close the files. I would hope there is a way to automate these steps. I repeat this step with of the remaining 10 files. Pressing Cmd+ Option+ Shift+ S (to access the Save As command), highlight the file I want to 'Save To' in the Finder window, click 'Save', click 'Replace', then I close the PDF file. I do this manually by taking the first open PDF,

Each blank PDF file has the filename I want to use for each of the open PDF reports. I have a folder with blank PDF files that I use as a 'template' for saving these files with the appropriate filenames. The files are created with generic filenames such as 'Constant.pdf' or 'Estimate.pdf'. I use Mac OS to run a daily business utility that will create eleven (11) reports printed to PDF and the files open in Mac Preview.

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