Anyway around new Preview annoyance?

After spending years of bug reporting .eps conversions in Preview Apple's response has been to fix nothing and add yet another annoyance.
SL now strips the names off converted .eps files in Preview so they all become Untitled.pdf
Has anyone succeeded in creating a usable workflow to batch convert .eps to .pdf in Preview without it crashing when you open too many files, dumping them all in the Documents folder and now removing their names and making them all Untitled?
Exactly what does Apple have against us graphic designers?

Peter
+"Is there anyone out there who actually knows anything?"+
I spent 27 years in Print, 15 of them in Pre-Press. Most of it High-End Repro involving myself with the reproduction of Fine Art Paintings for Museum Catalogs. I've looked at batch processing large CMYK files from TIF to DSC EPS as well as anything else you'd care to mention. I guess I'm saying I know a little - somewhat. I've looked at Preview as well as other applications/scripts and for me (as already stated) it did what I wanted from it OK. However it's not something I would seriously consider to do what I think you're saying you want it to do. There are better ways of doing this. For me Preview would not be one of them.
Considering the application is only meant to be a PDF Viewer/Reader (as I understand it) and it comes 'free' as part of the OS, it's slightly unrealistic (to me) to expect it to do what you seem to want from it. Posting on here 'moaning' about it is also slightly unrealistic.
Tony

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