Printing document name and date with document

Question

hi all.
former pc user here.
is there a way to automatically print the name of a document and the time it was printed on documents that I print on the mac?
how does this work?
can i set it globally by printer driver?
can i set it globally by software?
or can i only set it by manually doing this on each document?
thanks

Answer 1

Here is a script which add automatically a date_time stamp to PDF created thru Print in a PDF file.
--{code}
--[SCRIPT ranger PDFs dans un dossier]
Attach this folder action script to the folder in which "Print as PDF" store its files.
It will move them in a storage folder with a date_time stamped name.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
2011/10/04
-- two instructions used for tests
set this_folder to ((path to desktop as text) & "PDFs recipient:") as alias
set added_items to {((path to desktop as text) & "PDFs recipient:OS X Lion / à propos de Récupération Lion.pdf") as alias}
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
          set nom_du_dossier to "stamped PDFs"
Build the path to storage folder *)
          if nom_du_dossier ends with ":" then
                    set dossier_de_stockage to "" & this_folder & nom_du_dossier
          else
                    set dossier_de_stockage to "" & this_folder & nom_du_dossier & ":"
          end if
If the storage folder doesn't exist, create it *)
          tell application "System Events"
                    if not (exists folder dossier_de_stockage) then make new folder at end of folder ("" & this_folder) with properties {name:nom_du_dossier}
          end tell
Main loop *)
          repeat with un_fichier in added_items
                    tell application "System Events" to tell disk item ("" & un_fichier)
                              try
                                        set isPDF to type identifier is "com.adobe.pdf"
If the file is a PDF, grab some infos *)
                                        if isPDF then set {the_ext, origName} to {name extension, name}
                              on error
                                        set isPDF to false
                              end try
                    end tell -- System Events
                    if isPDF then
If the file is a PDF, move it to the storage folder with a date_time stamped name *)
                              if the_ext is "" then
                                        set new_name to origName & (do shell script "date +_%Y%m%d_%H%M%S.PDF")
                              else
                                        set new_name to (text 1 thru -5 of origName) & (do shell script "date +_%Y%m%d_%H%M%S.PDF")
                              end if -- the_ext…
  do shell script "mv " & quoted form of POSIX path of un_fichier & space & quoted form of POSIX path of ("" & dossier_de_stockage & new_name)
                    end if -- isPDF
          end repeat
end adding folder items to
--[/SCRIPT]
--{code}
Attach it to the folder in which you send the PDFs created by Print in a PDF.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 4 octobre 2011 11:49:42
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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