Open URLs and convert / download as pdfs

Hi there,
I am conducting research and have hundreds of URLs saved as the .webloc (Web Internet Location) that ultimately I need to have saved as pdfs. Normally, I'm visiting the pages and going through Print and Save as PDF.
I looked wide and far for a way to automate this. I found an Automator script "Download URLs as PDFs", version 0.4.2, but I can't get it to work. Maybe I'm screwing it up, but maybe it just doesn't work. It outputs Pdfs, but they are blank.
As I have hundreds of webpages to get saved as Pdfs, is there any way that Automator can help?
Please, anyone responding make your explanations / suggestions comprehensive and simple, if possible, as Automator is not something I've used much (neither Automator or the previous Applescript application), so it doesn't make much sense to me.
I really hope there is a possible solution. I think it could help many people, not just me.
salam,
ian

Sounded like it could be a nifty action, so I Googled for it since you didn't give the source. I found it pretty quickly, and discovered from the developer's page that 0.4.2 is for Leopard, though you've posted in the Tiger forum. And though your post indicates you are using 10.5.7, perhaps you're trying to use this action on a different computer with Tiger (10.4.x)? The developer's page indicates version 0.3.1 is for Tiger, so you might try that if that's the case.
On the other hand, I downloaded it for Leopard and installed it. I, too, got blank PDFs when using the .webloc files. You didn't provide the workflow you were using, so I don't know if it's the same as the workflows I tried. Here are the workflows I put together:
*1. "Get Specified Finder Items"* - I didn't actually add this action, instead I drag/dropped a .webloc file from my Desktop into the workflow and this action was added with that file listed in it. The .webloc I used was one I dragged from Safari's address bar for that developer's website http://scott.j38.net/code/ since it was there at the time.
*2. "Download URLs as PDFs"* - I left all of the settings at their defaults, didn't change anything.
That resulted in a blank PDF. Since you, too, got a blank PDF, is this what you tried? I tried unchecking the "Use Backgrounds", and I tried toggling the "Use JavaScript" in the Advanced section. I also tried various combinations of those two and blank PDFs always resulted. You said you couldn't get it to work, but not what you tried. There are other settings, have you tried systematically changing each setting, yet?
I figured it might have something to do with the .webloc, so I tried other actions that depended on URLs and the ones I tried seem to work fine with the .webloc, so Automator likely was converting them properly. Nevertheless, I decided to try a different angle and use URLs directly from the Safari browser with "Get Current Webpage from Safari" in the following workflow:
*1. "Get Current Webpage from Safari"*
*2. "Download URLs as PDFs"* - Same as before, I didn't change any of the default settings, at first.
I get a blank PDF with this, too. However, a couple seconds later Automator crashes without notice, that is, no wait cursor or other indicator, it just crashes a couple seconds later. Though, if I tried to do something in Automator within those couple of seconds, a wait cursor will appear before Automator crashes. A crash dialog appears offering to relaunch Automator, and when I create the same workflow and run it Automator crashes again, so it is definitely repeatable. In fact, a second dialog will appear offering to reset and relaunch Automator, but that doesn't keep it from crashing again with the same workflow. Something about the results from *"Get Current Webpage from Safari"* might be triggering something in the *"Download URLs as PDFs"* action. The *"Download URLs as PDFs"* probably isn't handling the URLs properly.
At this point, I'd suggest you contact the developer of the action since it doesn't seem to be producing the desired results. Since you didn't mention who it was, you might double check to make sure who the developer of your action is, because it might not be the same one I found.

Similar Messages

Please, I have a PDF attachment in an email on Russian language, how can I open it and convert to WO

Please, I have a PDF attachment in an email on Russian language, how can I open it and convert to WORD (doc.) on Russian?

Hi Senior gal,
If you have purchased the ExportPDF subscription, then just save the PDF to your desktop and follow any of the two mathod mentioned in the article below to convert the PDF to word
http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-2412
~Pranav

How can i open a downloaded mp4 file that is zipped? Witch will not open. And, Convert that mp4 to play on my iMac with Maverick osx ? I there an app or apps i need to buy ?

how can i open a downloaded mp4 file that is zipped? Witch will not open. And, Convert that mp4 to play on my iMac with Maverick osx ? I there an app or apps i need to buy ?

You should be able to open the zipped file by double clicking on it.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
This link is for a VLC Player it can play just about everything.
Cheers
Don

Adobe X PDF files converted to jpg, edited and converted back to PDF have ragged, unclear text. I didn't have this problem with Acrobat 9 standard. What is the remedy for this. If this is the best I can expect, I won't be able to use X standard.

Adobe X PDF files converted to jpg, edited and converted back to PDF have ragged, unclear text. I didn't have this problem with Acrobat 9 standard. What is the remedy for this. If this is the best I can expect, I won't be able to use X standard.

I can't imagine any worse workflow than converting to JPEG to edit text, then back to PDF. Text in a PDF is a vector thing, smooth at all resolutions. And JPEG is made for photos. EVERY conversion to JPEG and back loses quality but how much loss there is will vary.
If you must go to an image format, try PNG.

I open tools and then downloads. I am unable to open any of the files in the download screen

I open tools and then downloads. A screen pops up with files I have downloaded through Firefox. I right click on a file and the open option is not highlighted. When I click it the file will not open. This is a new problem as this feature has worked before.

If Open and Open Containing Folder in the right-click context menu in the Download Manager window are grayed then that means that the file is no longer in the original download location. <br />
It is possible that your anti-virus software is corrupting the downloaded files or otherwise interfering with downloading files by Firefox.<br />
Try to disable the real-time (live) scanning of files in your anti-virus software temporarily to see if that makes downloading work.
See "Disable virus scanning in Firefox preferences - Windows"
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_save_or_download_files

Download spool and convert it to pdf in background job

Hello experts,
RSTXPDFT4 works fine for me if i want to convert spools to pdf files in foreground mode.
If i want to do this in background mode as a daily job i am not able to use RSTXPDFT4.
With report RSTXPDFT5 i am able to download in background as binary data but not as pdf.
So, i want to download spools to network shared folder in pdf formaat.
Thanks for suggestions & Regards
Janez

If i use GUI_DOWNLOAD which is used in this function than i have to be loged on and file is saved in my sapworkdir on my computer and not on networh share.
To create and save TXT file on network shared folder i have to use opendataset statement and write data in file. But i don't know how to use it or to implement it in program RSTXPDFT4 to save spool job with specific id as pdf file. If i pass spool job id to RSTXPDFT4 i can save pdf file on local drive inside of sapworkdir or any where on clien computer nd of course in dialog mode.
I want to save specific spool job with specific spool ID in background mode on network folder.
Thanks & Regards
Janez

Drop-down Menu to Open URL for File Download

I am using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and was wondering if it is possible to create a drop-down menu that can be used to open different URLs for file downloads, kind of like the Attachments button Presenter has. Captivate seems to have a dropdown widget available but I can't tell if this would work for this purpose.

Hi Theo
You can use any composition to create a menu with setting for show target on rollover and then link targets to specific pages.
Adobe Muse CC 7.0 Tutorial | Beautiful Graphic Navigation - YouTube
Thanks,
Sanjit

Read In Email, parsing Attachments and converting them to PDF

Dear Forum,
When an email arrives, I want to check wether there are attachments present in this email. When there are .GIF, .PNG or .TIFF files attached, I want to convert them to a PDF.
Does anybody knows how to do one of these steps in Java?
1) parsing attachments out of email
2)converting them to PDF
Thank you,
Stefan Tysbaert

In your JavaMail download there is a directory containing examples of JavaMail code. One of those examples covers your first question.
And the second question ("How do I convert a GIF file to PDF?") isn't a question about JavaMail.

Open url and DNS change

          IP for an URL was changed,and DNS was updated and propogated.
          However, an already deployed application, i.e the servlet trying to open connection
          to that URL still goes to the old machine.
          A nslookup on the weblogic server machine lists new IP.
          When weblogic 6.1 instance (admin+2 server cluster) was recycled open url goes to
          new machine..!
          Is this a bug (feature)? or Any clue on what I should have done?
          Thanks -
          Rama


          Thanks for this info.
          Rama
          "Dimitri I. Rakitine" <[email protected]> wrote:
          >If you look at the java/net/InetAddress.java you will see that
          >it caches results of DNS lookups, and the default expiration time
          >is never - sun.net.InetAddressCachePolicy.FOREVER (-1). You can change
          >it by specifying sun.net.inetaddr.ttl=seconds system property.
          >
          >Rama Raghavan <[email protected]> wrote:
          >
          >> IP for an URL was changed,and DNS was updated and propogated.
          >
          >> However, an already deployed application, i.e the servlet trying to open
          >connection
          >> to that URL still goes to the old machine.
          >
          >> A nslookup on the weblogic server machine lists new IP.
          >
          >> When weblogic 6.1 instance (admin+2 server cluster) was recycled open
          >url goes to
          >> new machine..!
          >
          >> Is this a bug (feature)? or Any clue on what I should have done?
          >> Thanks -
          >> Rama
          >
          >--
          >Dimitri
          >

Until today(20.09) when i wanted to open an image on any website it opened, now it asks me with what to open it and it downloads it.

Until today(20.09) when i wanted to open an image(like jpg,for exemple)on any website ,it did.Now it asks me with what program to open it and when im giving it , it first downloads it than opens it.I need to kno why and what to do to revert it to the way it was before.
(Hope it wont take long until i wil get the answer...)

# Type ''about:support'' in the address bar and press Enter.
# Click the Show Folder button. This opens a Windows Explorer window with your profile folder.
# Back in the Firefox window, click the ≡ Menu Button, then the Power Symbol to exit Firefox.
# Back in the Windows Explorer window, right-click the ''mimeTypes.rdf'' file and choose Cut.
# Right-click the desktop and choose Paste.
# If the problem goes away when you next start Firefox, right-click the ''mimeTypes.rdf'' file on the desktop and choose Delete.
# If the problem doesn't go away when you next start Firefox, check if you have the same issue with you start Firefox with add-ons disabled.
#* [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]]

Extracting Base64 images embeded inside XML and Convert it into PDF using Biztalk

Hi,
I'm presently working in a scenario, where we will be getting huge XML Files containing Base64 encoded images. The scenario goes like this :-
1) Client will dump the XML files with embedded Base64 images in a sFTP location.
1) Firstly, we have to extract Base64 encoded images and the metadata from the XML file.
3) Secondly, we need to convert the extracted Base64 encoded image into multiple pdf.
4) Then merge the PDF's into a single file.
5) Then the merge pdf will store to a particular location.
5) It is presume that, the file will be of very big in size ~ 1 GB XML file, so we need to take care of the performance as well.
The sample xml looks like:-
<ns0:tran xmlns:ns0="http://Sample.Schemas.Record_XML">
<tranheader>
</tranheader>
<item>
    <image>
      <frontimage>
        <frontimage> image 1 part 1</frontimage>
      </frontimage>
      <rearimage>
        <rearimage>image 1 part 2</rearimage>
      </rearimage>
      <frontimage>
        <frontimage> image 2 part 1</frontimage>
      </frontimage>
      <rearimage>
        <rearimage>image 2 part 2</rearimage>
      </rearimage>
      <frontimage>
        <frontimage> image 3 part 1</frontimage>
      </frontimage>
      <rearimage>
        <rearimage>image 3 part 2</rearimage>
      </rearimage>
    </image>
</item>
<trantrailer>
</trantrailer>
</ns0:tran>
Thanks & Regards

Do you really need to use BizTalk for this requirement? This can be done better with standard .NET code through a Windows service/schedule task/ if you want to poll,
you can implement file watcher class and poll the file as when it arrive to SFTP folder and convert the image in base64 to PDFs.
Another point, I don’t know why you want to “convert the extracted Base64 encoded
image into multiple pdf” (Point-3) and “Then merge the PDF's into a single file”-
point4. You can create a single PDF file (unless I don’t know the reason for creating separate PDF file and merge it again as single PDF file)
Anyway, if you still need to use BizTalk, you have somes options in general:
Option1:
Receive the message using BizTalk receive location using passthrouhg pipeline at receive end
Create a send port with filter for receive portname. In the send port use a custom send pipeline. In the send pipeline use a custom pipeline component which will extract the base64 content from
the XML file, convert the base64 encoded image as PDF and send the PDF file in the send port level.
Option 2 – this options works better if you have some process based on your
<tranheader> record:
Receive the message using BizTalk receive location using a custom pipeline strip off, decode and store the base64
encoded document in a temporary store (file system). So when the message is published in message box db, the message doesn’t contain the heafty encoded64 data part, message will be light weight when its published into message box.
Process the XML message (without bae64 encoded document) with or without orchestration where you will do processing based on your
<tranheader> record.
In send last moment –at send port level, retrieve the stored file from the
temporary store (file system), convert the image to PDF (i,e, hefty processing like creation of PDFs/merging) can be done at the send pipeline level and send the PDF file
to destination.
Following are the guidelines you should keep in mind if you need to achieve this process in BizTalk:
Try to avoid publishing the hefty message to message box.
Conversion of base64 to PDF can be done only using a .NET code. So your options to do this conversion in BizTalk are either in Receive pipeline/send pipeline/ .NET helper in orchestration.
Try not to use Orchestration as much as possible, because of heavy processing and message transmission is already involved.
Following articles shall help you in this context:
Dealing with base64 encoded XML documents in BizTalk
To convert Base64 to PDF/JPEG using C# code:
TechNet-Wiki Code: Converting Base64 strings
to Bitmap images
Convert Image to Base64 String and Base64
String to Image
Base64 encoding and decoding in .NET
Regards,
M.R.Ashwin Prabhu
If this answers your question please mark it accordingly. If this post is helpful, please vote as helpful by clicking the upward arrow mark next to my reply.

Can i fill in and save downloaded fillable pdf files???

Does anyone know if I can fill in and save pdf forms that were downloaded from the internet without owning Adobe Acrobat 7.0???
I used to have Acrobat 5.0 on my Windows based system - however on the MAC system I have not installed the Acrobat software (did not get the MAC version yet)
Preview allows me to open it but can not enter values into the fields!!!!
Any help appreciated...............
PowerBookG4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Thank you both of you for the ideas - just tried it yes I filled in part of the form in Preview then saved it as post script - then the program tries to convert it back to PDF and displays it in Preview - but the second time Preview did not let me continue to fill in the form. Since the forms need to be filled in partially first and then later either readjusted or additional info provided - this system will not work without too much hassle.
I am waiting now for Adobe to get back to me to see if they will allow me to purchase the upgrade package - although my previous version was for Windows.

Safari won't open URLs and Software Update does not cnnect

OK. I'm back in the hope that I can get some help from this forum or I can get steered to the appropriate forum.
This morning I went to the local library and connected to the internet directly using airport to their WAN. So I now know my problem is independent of the weird dial up arrangement I have at home.
Safari still does not open the sites. It gives a message "Cannot open page "x" because it cannot connect to server "X""
When I open Firefox all my sites are working normally. (I also downloaded and installed Firefox 3 this morning)
I have reset Safari but that does not help.
I have even downloaded the latest greatest version of safari (the beta 4) but it exhibits the same problems
When I invoke Software Update it claims I am not connected to the internet. Does this depend on Safari? Is there a preference i can change to make it work through Firefox
When I invoke internet connect diagnostics it says my internet connection is working normally.

Thank you. Problem solved.
Both safari and S/w Update now working again.
I have no idea how the proxy got set. (I don't remember doing it!!!)
Thanks again, Steve

Opened iTunes and it downloaded songs I purchased but in duplicate

I bought an album of 15 songs last night on iTunes v11.4 from my Macbook Pro at home.
When I got to work this morning and opened iTunes v11.4 on my MacPro, it downloaded my purchased music automatically--but in duplicate--EXCEPT FOR TWO of the songs.
Why? and now, how to get rid of the duplicates? How to prevent it from doing this in the future? Machine at home is on Mavericks, however, machine at work is one upgrade behind.

Purchasing more storage in iCloud was not necessary. You may need more space locally - on the iPad itself - not in the cloud. But did you receive a message saying that you needed space to download the movie? If you did, then you need to delete content on the iPad to free up space.
Settings>General>Usage>Storage. You can see which apps are taking up the most space and you can see videos and TV shows that are on the iPad. You can delete content in there via the Edit button and download it again later a desired. Most purchased content can be downloaded again for free but there are some limitations and exclusions.
Read this for more information.
Download previous purchases from the iTunes Store - Support - Apple

I tried to upload a file and convert it to pdf but it came back saying it exceeds 100 MB. I bought the pack for that reason. What am I supposed to do?

Yesterday I subscibed in Adobe pdf pack for a year. After I payed and signed in, I tried to upload a file but it came back saying it exceeds 100 MB. What am I supposed to do? By bying the product, I was under the impression I was going to install the program in my computer, but it turned out it's online!

Hi Thalia,
Thanks for posting your question in the forums. There is a 100MB file-size limit for uploading files to the Adobe PDF Pack online service. If you find that PDF Pack isn't going to work for you, you are welcome to cancel your subscription (and since it's within 30 days of purchase, you're entitled to a full refund).
You might consider an Acrobat subscription (which is software that you download and install). You would be able to create PDFs locally, without having to upload your files, so you can avoid and file-size limitations. For more information, see www.adobe.com/products/acrobat.html. (You can try it for 30 days for free.)
Best,
Sara

Open URLs and convert / download as pdfs

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for