Note: As I dont have a printer Ive only done some quick testing on Mavericks with a Generic PostScript Printer.For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.What I need to do: I often have a ton of pdf documents opened up in Preview, and to print them all off, I have to click on each open document and print it as an individual file.
Is there any way to have Automator do this for me Press a button and BAM, all open documents for a particular application will print. Print your files from the Finder directly - its what I do to dozens of documents Ive already proofed. Applescript Word 2007 Recording Full Of PdfsI end up with a screen full of pdfs, then I want to print the ones I have open. Select them in Finder - I open multiple PDFs simultaneously by selecting what I want in one or more Finder windows. Remember, Shift-Click and Command-Click are your friends here to select contiguous and non-contiguous files - then use Command-Down arrow (on your keyboard) to open the PDFs (or JPEGs or other Preview-compatible files) at the same time. Now that you have all of your files open in one window select the Thumbnails option from the View menu. Youll see thumbnails of all of your open files in the Sidebar. Youll be able to use selection commands with the keyboard andor mouse to select which - or all (Command-A) pages you want active. Once you have some or all of the pages actively selected in the Sidebar - choose the Print Command (Command-P) - all of the pages youve selected in the Sidebar will show up in your Print Dialog box. QED. Perhaps Ill give another detail, and you may have another trick up your sleeve. So, basically, Im a musician, and Im using a website that stores pdfs of music Ill be using for upcoming gigs (the reason for this is so the other musicians can have access to the sitesong ordermp3s, etc.). When Im picking music, I click the songs on the site, and a pdf gets downloaded to downloads, and the pdf opens. So Im not opening them from Finder; they just open.) Ill look at all the charts Ive got open, make sure theyre what I want, and then print the ones Ive settled on. I could just close the files then reopen them from downloads using your method, but I feel like there has to be a quicker way. Applescript Word 2007 Recording Mac Ive BeenIf I were you, Id be saving those items you want to keep to a folderdirectory - I use Default Folder X to speed that kind of action up, a massively powerful extension to the Mac Ive been using for over a decade. IOW, as youre reviewing your toss-vs-keep files, put all of your keep files in a folder for printing later (or some future datetime). What Id do then is drag all of those files - in the Finder - to the Desktop printer (in the Dock, I know.). Youre saving those PDFs you want to keep anyway, right The Finder is scriptable, but this is easy, and a simple extension to your existing workflow (DL files, save them someplace, thats pretty much it.). I recommend checking out Default Folder - its not cheap, but its so freaking powerful and so much cheaper than therapy. Worked perfectly the first time Thanks for taking the time to figure this out and respond. Now, I can have a ton of documents open in Preview, click PreviewServicesPrintOpenPreviewDocuments, and BAM, they all print.
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