Hi Everyone,
here is the workflow I want to achieve:
- pdf is dropped into a hot folder which then runs a folder action script (so far, so good)
- pdf is then opened in acrobat, then preflighted, then saved as eps using batch process or rejected if it fails preflight.
I need this as a fully automated process - any tips greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Chris.
You may want to do something like this first with Acrobat:
- Launch Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional
- Go to Advanced>Preflight…
- Select a profile (i.e Compatible with Acrobat 3)
- Click the Options button and select Create Preflight Droplet…
a. Optional - Make your choice of to move the file if you so desire in the “On Success:” section
b. Optional - Make your choice of to move the file if you so desire in the “On Error:” section
- Uncheck “Display a summary PDF with a list of files for which Preflight found errors or warnings.”
- Click the “Save…” button
- In the “Save as droplet” dialog change the name or not, and click the “Save” button. Make sure that you save it to where you want the file to be located.
**WARNING: Save this file to the EXACT spot that you will have it for you workflow otherwise it will error out.
Next with the Automator steps:
- Launch Adobe Acrobat Professional
- Find Finder Items:
a. In the “Where:” field map to a folder
b. In the “Whose” field set to:
i. “Kind” + “Is” + “Document”
ii. “Extension” + “Contains” + “pdf”
- Open with YourDroplet.app (i.e. Compatible with Acrobat 3.app)
- Save the Automator file.
Next since Automator has the limitation that it can’t loop you need to convert your Automator file into an AppleScript applicaiton.
- Use the Automator Loop Utility to do the conversion.
- Place the new AppleScript Application in your startup or launch it when you want to process files.
Hope that this helps!