Thank you for the clarification. Once I moved the script and restarted, QS works as you describe. One minor point: I moved it to ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions, not ~/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions. But the end result was what I wanted. Thanks again!
Michael On Jul 19, 2012, at 10:30 , Daniel wrote: > Whoops, sorry for the late reply, I often forget to read mailing lists I'm on > for a while. > > This isn't merely a script, it's actually a custom action. Drop it it > ~/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions (you'll have to create the Actions > folder, most likely), and then your workflow can be: select the files you > want in Finder; use "Command Window With Selection", Cmd-G, or the Service to > get them into QS; Tab, "compdf" (or something); Enter, wait a couple seconds > and QS will reinvoke with the result; tab, Rename…, tab, whatever you want. > > Custom actions are really powerful but not that well supported at the moment. > This happened to be a lucky sort of action that can be built—I couldn't write > one that asks for the output filename in the 3rd pane, for instance, due to > API limitations. Hopefully that will get updated sometime. > > On Friday, July 13, 2012 8:17:03 AM UTC-4, Michael Burer wrote: > 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 -- 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
