![]() ![]() I have it restricted to work only on PDF files selected in the Finder. Here’s how the service is defined in Automator: With a little AppleScript and an Automator action to run it, I can add the header to the first page of any PDF document by right-clicking on it in the Finder and choosing the Add Company Header service from the popup menu. Maybe it’s because they’re using a different version of Word, maybe it’s just a bug in the importing code, but whatever the reason, the output from Word is never quite right.Įnter PDFpenPro 1. Fonts get screwed up, dimensions change, the graphic turns into a low-resolution bitmap-something always ends up wrong. My coworkers-a fine group of people in every other way-use Microsoft Word on Windows, which has caused no end of trouble.Īlthough there are procedures for importing PDFs and importing EPSs into Word, they’ve never worked for my colleagues. ![]() The document could be written in Pages, LaTeX, troff, OmniGraffle-whatever program I use to produce the final output, it looks great.īut I can’t be responsible for writing all of our company documents. It worked back when I was using Linux, and it still works on the Mac. I, of course, have never had any trouble importing the header into any of the documents I produce. We have a header, in both PDF and EPS formats, that includes a logo and text. The most recent solution fixed a longstanding problem at work: getting a consistent “look” to company documents that are made by different people. It’s been the perfect solution for several problems since I got it. I’m beginning to think I should have taking the advice of everyone in the Mac world and bought PDFpenPro long ago. ![]() Next post Previous post Document uniformity with PDFpen, AppleScript, and Automator ![]()
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