It's pretty easy once you get started and if you want to learn more
then contact me off list and I'll give you some stuff that's helped me
along the way. Yes, it's accessible and VO friendly as well.
On May 17, 2008, at 6:45 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
Hey i just wondered if the Automator is hard to use for a non-
programmer and if there is any podcast or something to read
somewhere about Automator from a blind persons viewpoint, so that i
could perhaps start discovering this tool?
Thanks for any answers.
/Krister
16 maj 2008 kl. 20.35 skrev Cara Quinn:
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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