Thanks so much for working on this. I really appreciate it, as this will be a big help to me. What I am getting is not quite what you describe, though. Here's what's happening:
This is what I do first in QS: Pane 1: Combine PDFs.scpt Pane 2: Open File . . . Pane 3: PDF1, PDF2 This places the new file Combined PDFs 2 in the same folder, but it doesn't return QS with the new file in focus for renaming, moving, etc. Do I need a different syntax for the initial command? Thanks, Michael On Jul 13, 2012, at 24:09 , Daniel wrote: > Not natively, no. The answer beyond that turns out to be that there's a lot > of different ways…and now finally I think I've found the right one. > There are PDF-combining command-line tools, but you'd have to install them > separately and I don't trust them. > There's an Automator action to combine PDFs but you can't use a Workflow as > an action and a Service-as-action can't return a result. > The workflow could manually return a value to QS, but then using it as an > actual service would invoke QS unwanted. > Saving it as an app only makes things worse, since Open With… doesn't open > all the dObjects in a single go, instead it opens them one-by-one. > BUT. That combine PDFs action? It's written in Python and you can call the > script directly. (Major thanks to this guy for the tip.) > So then. Here, have an AppleScript action (that calls said script). This was > a doozy to write—AppleScript hates handling files in any sane way whatsoever, > there's like 3 or 4 different "types" of file out there and converting > between them is a major pain. But it works. > > If your files are all in the same folder, the action creates a new file > called "Combined PDFs (number of files you selected).pdf" in that folder and > returns it to QS (so you can rename it and/or move it). It would be trivial > to modify the script to prompt for the output filename instead. If your files > aren't all in the same folder (critical when dealing with QS, unlike with > Services where presumably they'll all be in the same place because you had to > select them in the same Finder window to call the service), the script asks > you where you want the output file. > > On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 9:15:37 AM UTC-4, Michael Burer wrote: > I'd like to merge pdf files with QS, but I can't find any documentation > describing that as a feature. Is that possible at present? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > Quicksilver group. To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send > email to [email protected]. For more > options, visit this group at > https://groups.google.com/d/forum/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en<Combine > PDFs.scpt.zip> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Quicksilver group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en
