![]() Perhaps the last time I saved something in Safari I saved it somewhere else and PDFs isn't available. #PDFPEN AUTOMATOR ACTION PDF#Now, I could have just clicked on PDF that was inside the save dialog, but perhaps it's not there. I'm going to click on the text field there, which is the search text field, type in "PDFs". Then I'm going to bring the Save window to the front it already is in the front but I'm actually going to go ahead and drag it over, which is what you saw. Then I'm going to click a second time on the Save as PDF. Now I'm going to click it once and bring up the pop-up menu, not click and drag down, because Automator doesn't seem to record that very well. Then I'm going to go ahead and click the PDF button. Then I'm pressing Command+P, which seems to be more reliable than selecting File and then going down to Print, because doing the second will actually go ahead and follow your cursor movements, which sometimes can differ depending upon what's going on on your screen. If I clicked on the window it would actually be looking for a window of that title, which will change from page to page. I'm clicking Safari in the dock I'm not clicking on the Safari window, because this will ensure that Safari runs. For instance, everything here has a purpose. Now, it's important to really think about each command before you go ahead and record your script. It's exactly what I wanted to do, so I'm going to press Stop, and now I can see my complete script on the right. Click on PDFs right there, and click Save. It will appear as the only folder there in my results. To do that, I'm going to use the search dialog over here, type in PDFs. ![]() I'm going to click the PDF button there once, I'm going to move down and click the Save as PDF, then I'm going to navigate to a folder we're going to call PDFs. I'm now going to hit Command+P and it's going to bring up the print dialog. So we're going to hit Record, then we're going to go down to the dock which you can't see and choose Safari, so Safari comes to the front. Instead we're going to hit the Record button to record exactly what we do. Now on the left here there's all these different commands that we can add to the right to create our script. You're going to to choose Custom and then hit Choose. So when you first run Automator, you get a screen that looks like this. That's a lot of steps to do, and if you're doing this a lot, you probably want to automate it. And then you just file dialog and navigate to where you want to go to and save. ![]() Say you want to save this as a PDF one of the thing you would do is go to File, then you would go to Print, then you would click on the PDF button here at the bottom, and choose Save as PDF. #PDFPEN AUTOMATOR ACTION PRO#Here's a page of technical specifications for the MacBook Pro at the Apple website. Suppose you're in Safari and you want to save a page as a PDF. You can also go ahead and record some actions just by simply performing them, and save that recording as a script and have it performed over and over again. So Automator is this handy tool you'll find in your applications folder that allows you to go ahead and create scripts that can do repetitive actions in OS 10 and using lots of different applications. #PDFPEN AUTOMATOR ACTION HOW TO#Video Transcript: In today's episode, let's learn how to record a workflow using Automator. ![]() Check out MacMost Now 247: Using Automator to Playback Actions at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. ![]()
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