PDF to JPEG/TIFF book printing...

Where are the folders supposed to be after you've selected the Save PDF to Folder as JPEG or TIFF? I've run this action a few times and I never get a Save dialog or folder that Spotlight can find. So, I guess this is not actually working here...? Anybody else having this trouble?
Thanks!
dc

David Coffin1 wrote:
Where are the folders supposed to be after you've selected the Save PDF to Folder as JPEG or TIFF? I've run this action a few times and I never get a Save dialog or folder that Spotlight can find. So, I guess this is not actually working here...? Anybody else having this trouble?
When you select that PDF option, you should notice after the "processing page: <n>" dialog goes away that there is an Automator workflow running if you watch your menu bar. At some point, you'll get a popup window titled "Move Finder Items" offering you a choice of locations, a "replace existing files" checkbox, and cancel/continue buttons. That's where you tell it where to put the files.
To anticipate the next question you'll have once you have this working, which is "how do I get higher than 200 dpi resolution?", go to Library/PDF Services, open the appropriate workflow file you find there in Automator, and change the slider to 300 dpi and save it. You could build yourself some 300 dpi equivalents and save them in the same directory, suitably named, and have the menu populated automatically.
The question I had after that was "but why does it still look like crap?" and I haven't found the answer to that one yet. I found that no matter the color management, blackpoint correction, etc. settings I fiddled with, I couldn't get a page image of a single image to print nearly as nicely either as a converted file (JPG) or straight from Aperture (PDF) as if I just selected that image in the library and printed it. I have profiled my display and printer, and do get acceptable results printing from the library. It is hard to summon enthusiasm for the idea of forking out the money for a printed book if what I've gotten from proofing is what I'm going to get!

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