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MacOS uses Perl, Python, AppleScript, and Automator and you can write scripts in all of these.

More macOS tricks 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh From now on, when I need to combine those thirteen individual PDFs, all I need to do is double-click my Combine Gods & Monsters Sheets application and it will combine them for me, into a file called Sheets.pdf on my desktop. When you’re done making the Automator script, you can save it as an Application you can then re-use it as you would any other application, by double-clicking on it in Finder. Using the Finder’s “Move Finder Items” action, I move the file to the Desktop I could also move it to any location on my computer.

Move the file to the desired location.

The Finder has an action called “Rename Finder Items”, and you can replace any text in the original name with any other text. The PDF application has an action called “Rename PDF document” that attempts to give the PDF file a useful name if it can’t determine the appropriate name, it gives it the name “Untitled”. The temporary combined file has a temporary name. Here’s what I added as steps three through five.: For full automation, however, you can also automatically rename and copy the file to a pre-specified location. You can then view the document in Preview and if it meets your needs, save it just as you would any other file in Preview. The simplest thing to do is to use the Finder’s “Open Finder Items” action, and open with Preview. This will combine the files from the previous step into a single temporary file.ĭo something with the new file. That application has “Combine PDF Pages”. In the list of Applications in Automator, there is one called PDF. If all you want to do is drag and drop the PDF files onto the Automator script, you don’t need this step at all. You might instead use the “Ask for Finder Items” if you’ll need to combine different items each time you use the Automator script.

In my case, I already know what files are going to be combined every time, so I used the Finder’s “Get Specified Finder Items” action. Combining PDF files in Automator consists of two to five actions, depending on what you want the results to be.Īutomator is in your Applications folder in Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Preview doesn’t directly combine PDF files, but it turns out that Automator can. In the past, I’ve just not done it, but today I finished making a set of reference sheets for the Gods & Monsters role-playing game, and I needed an automated means of combining them. At home, I don’t have Acrobat Pro, but I still want to occasionally combine PDF files. For the most common tasks, I have an AppleScript that combines the files and re-saves them. One of the things I often do at work is use Adobe Acrobat Pro to combine multiple PDF files into a single file.