Hey All, Happy Friday to you!… :)
I just thought I'd send this along as a nice lil tidbit about
Automator. These tips may have been chatted about before, so forgive
the rehash if that's the case, K? :)
Anyway, I often have the need to resize photos quickly to attach to
emails or such, and I've recently discovered that one can do it in
Preview, but only with Automator actions. I.E. If you select the
Scale Images action; as you add it to your workflow, you'll be asked
if you would like to add a Finder option to save a copy of the file or
resize the original file. So once you choose your options, including
the size you'd like the images scaled to, you can then save the
workflow as a Finder plugin. So then when you select any images in
Finder, and ctrl click them, you will find the option to resize them.
It's amazingly cool and easy. they will be resized, and placed in a
folder you set in your workflow.
I used to use the Image Resizer Powertoy on WinXP so this is a
terrific option which is way more customizable and tres cool!…
The second thing I'd found while working with Scaling Images was
another Preview option to simply convert a pdf file to text or rtf.
So, you simply add the 'Extract PDF Text' action to your workflow and
save it as a Finder plugin. then, when you simply ctrl click a pdf
file, you'll get the option to save it as the file type you selected
in your workflow. The action has a choice for the folder you'd like
to have the file saved in, however, for myself, I'm finding it a bit
finicky as it seems to want to keep saving to my desktop but we'll see
what happens. Even if that's the case, it's still way cool!
Anyway, I just thought I'd share these in case they hadn't been
discussed before. Hope they help.
Have a terrific day!…
Smiles,
Cara :)
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