Automator: How to create a PDF contact sheet?

Hi,
I'm trying to create a PDF from multiple images in automator. The PDF should contain:
First Page: A contact sheet with all images
Following pages: One page for each image
Any idea how to achieve this? I don't even get the contact sheet working – it always results in a blank PDF.
Kind regards
Jan

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately the intructions in the link don't work (did it exactly like this -> result is an empty PDF). I learned now from other posts that this is a Mavericks specific issue, which seems to be unsolved.
Apart from this: Do you think my request is solvable at all? Because the output of the contact sheet module would be the contact sheet iteslf (if it worked). I can't use this to create the full sized PDF pages, right?

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