Render PDF Pages As Images - File names are gibberish

I have a workflow that takes a folder of PDF's and converts them to JPG's.
The problem is that Automator is giving the converted files random gibberish filenames such as Kft56Fvg.jpeg and not the names of the original files.
Anyone know what's going on?

At the bottom of the list of actions in Automator is an area with the description of the selected action in the listing (but not the workflow). If this description isn't visible, there is a button at the bottom of the window near the bottom left corner of the window for revealing the description.
If you need to see the description of an action that is in the workflow on the right side of the window, there is a button on the action itself at its bottom left that will reveal the description of the action. This is so you won't have to find it again in the listing just to review its description.
For you're immediate convenience and peace of mind, this is the description you'll find for "Render PDF Pages as Images":
---- Begin description ----
This action will render each page of the passed PDF files as images.
Note: As the names of the resulting images are randomly generated, this action is often followed by the Rename Finder Items > Make Sequential action.
Input: PDF files
Options: Image format, color model, resolution, and compression
Result: (Image files) References to the rendered image files.
---- End description ----
Since a PDF can contain many pages, this action could produce many images from the same PDF. So, that could further complicate naming the new images when multiple PDFs are involved if you need special names.

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Christopher Stumpf wrote:
It's really simple.
It's a service item and it contains just one of the actions I've already listed. They are supposed to change the existing file to the desired type, in place.
no, they are not supposed to do that. they don't say anything of the sort in their descriptions. moreover, this is completely impossible if a pdf file has several pages. I just tried it and it works just fine. I passed a multipage pdf to the action "render pdf pages as images" and it made a number of separate pdf files - one for each page, as it should according to the description. they are temp files, yes. so you just need to follow it by the action to copy (or move files) and then by "rename finder items".
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External Hard Drive File Names Are Gibberish

Earlier today someone explained how to move my iPod contents from my iPod to a new external hard drive on a computer that was also new, that is it didn't previously contain my iTunes Library.
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I want all image file naming like a caption in my source document. Source document contains more than 100 images.
But i got a script through the forum and tuned for my script. Still, the file naming comes for the Ist page image only.
From second page onwards the file naming not comes like a caption.
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If you use the add() method in conjunction with the document without specifying the page or better the spread, all objects added will end up on the first spread of your document.
But your testing scenario is also too narrow. You are expecting:
1. All your graphics are sitting in Rectangle objects (what about Ovals or Polygons?)
Therefore: All graphics placed in ovals or polygons are left out.
2. That really ALL rectangles in your document contain graphics
You are in trouble, if there happen to be empty rectangles on a page. I would suggest to test that with your script. It will give you an error, because there is no graphics[0] for this specific rectangle, where you can draw the "name" for the "itemLink".
3. That there are no graphics in anchored objects or pasted inside other objects; left alone graphics inside table cells.
And who can say that thiese three restrictions exist in all documents you want to run this script against?
So, if you want to get to all image files in the document, why don't you start with the images in the first place?
Let's see:
the Document object has an "allGraphics" property.
Use that as a starting point and you will not missing a single graphic.*
Iterate through "allGraphics" will get you:
the "name" of the placed image through its itemLink.name property;
the container of the graphic, that's the "parent" of the graphic.
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the page, or even better(!) the spread where the graphic is located. Imagine a graphic sitting outside of a page.
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if a graphic is copy/pasted from e.g. PhotoShop to InDesign, the "itemLink" property of that graphic is also "null".
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*Not exactly true, because it is missing graphics in not-active states of MultiStateObjects.
Since MSOs were introduced in InDesign CS5 the DOM documentation left out this fact so far.
//EDIT: in the first version I had a comment on a different scope. Since Document Objects have no "graphic" property, I removed that comment. Sorry.
Uwe
P.S. And a Happy New Year to all!
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