![]() No amount of DPI settings in Preview, or the Automator solution presented here, will alter 72 dpi content already within the PDF. Preview will open PDF documents for viewing but it will NOT display dynamic/interactive content. Do not use Text boxes with transparent backgrounds, borders, shadows, gradients, and opacity which also introduce transparency - resulting in that content rendered at 72 dpi in the PDF. The default viewer for PDF documents in Mac OS X is Preview. The quality of the resulting jpeg is very much dependent on you not using features in Pages that include low resolution images, or images with transparent backgrounds. jpeg files bear the original PDF filename where you told it to move them. Now, as written, you can drag and drop your single-page, Pages exported to PDF documents onto it, and the resultant. Save this workflow as an Application to your Desktop (I called mine PDF2JPG. Looks like this (right-click and open in a new browser window for a larger view): Library : Files and Folders : Move Finder Items (you can tell it the specific folder rather than just generically the Desktop). ![]() Library : PDF : Render PDF Pages as Images.Automator : New Document : Application : Choose.You want to drag two actions from the Library side onto the larger workflow window in the following order: Compare this output to that of Preview.įrom your Dock, select Launchpad, and then select the Others icon, to access and launch Automator. You can drag and drop your PDF documents onto this application, and it will generate 300 dpi (if you choose) images from the PDF page. Set EPSFileName to (currentFileShortName & ".Instead of Preview, why not try an Automator application using the Render PDF Pages as Images action, where you can choose the image type, resolution, and compression level (e.g. Repeat with currentFile in EPSfilesToProcess Set EPSfilesToProcess to every file in folder EPSsourceFolder whose file type is "PDF " Move currentFile to processedFolder with replacing Save document currentFileName to file PSFilePath using PostScript Conversion with embedded fonts, images, preview, separations and annotation without binary given postScript level:3 Tell application "Adobe Acrobat Professional" Set PSFilePath to (OutputFolder & PSFileName) as string Set PSFileName to (currentFileShortName & ".ps") as string Set currentFileShortName to characters 1 thru -5 of currentFileName Set currentFileName to name of currentFile Repeat with currentFile in PSfilesToProcess Set PSfilesToProcess to every file in folder PSsourceFolder whose file type is "PDF " Property OutputFolder : "Mac OS X HD:Users:xxx:Documents:Job_Process:Output_Job:"ĭisplay dialog the "Automation PDF Convertion to Postscript & EPS "on PS_Convertion() Property processedFolder : "Mac OS X HD:Users:xxx:Documents:Job_Process:Completed_Job" Property EPSsourceFolder : "Mac OS X HD:Users:xxx:Documents:Job_Process:PDF_to_EPS" Property PSsourceFolder : "Mac OS X HD:Users:xxx:Documents:Job_Process:PDF_to_PS" Mac OS X HD=>Users=>XXX=>Documents=>Job_Process=>PDF_to_PS Note for script on 1st, 2nd 3rd line you need to create the folder at the fixed area. you also need the apple script studio from the apple developer cd May i know which platform you are using Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10.3.9 ? and acrobat version is the Pro Version ? my script can run only acrobat 7 pro or acrobat 8 pro with mac os x 10.3.9 or above.
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