.wmf to .ai, .dwf, or .dwg batch converting

Has anyone found a converter or way to get large batches of .wmf files into a vector format that can be browsed by ai or bridge while keeping file integrity? All the converters I have found only make them into rasterized images so they are no longer editable in ai. I have thousands of files and while ai cs4 can open individual files and use them, it is impossible to figure out which file I need to use when I can't peruse.
HELP!

Thanks for that....i had no idea about the 'actions' pane. I made a new action for saving as .ai files and it worked like a charm. Takes a while to do 200 thousand of them, but its going well.

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Batch convert Pages files to Doc and stay in the same folder?

Hi there,
I use iWork '09 on Mountain Lion. I recently switched to Microsoft Word and prefer it over Pages (personal preference). However, I have nearly 1000 files on my computer that are in Pages format. I have extensively searched this issue in the Apple Support Communities and it appears that there are scripts that DO EXIST that batch convert Pages files into Word files. However, it appears that many of these scripts were built for older versions of iWork and therefore I run into various errors. For example, I used the script available at http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2008/01/export-folder-to-word-rtf-pdf-txt-or.html and click run but nothing actually happens (the script runs for less than a second, then I can click run again). I was able to use one script successfully (pasted below), but the only reason I can't use it is because it saves ALL my converted documents in one folder on my desktop and I would like a script that can save them in the original file were the Pages document is located.
So, is there an iWork '09 compatible script that can convert my Pages documents to Word documents and save them in the same folder as the original? Oh, and for an added bonus, it'd be cool if the script also deleted my Pages version after it was done with the conversion
--[SCRIPT batch_exportPages2DOC] (* Enregistrer ce script en tant que script ou progiciel. Exécuter ce script ou déposer l'icône d'un dossier sur son icône. Il ouvre tout document Pages du dossier et l' enregistre en fichier DOC dans le dossier "was_Pages_now_DOC". Celui-ci peut être sur le bureau ou dans le dossier "~/Documents". Si le GUIscripting n'est pas activé le script demande votre mot de passe pour l'activer. Le script récupère le dossier d'exportation par défaut dans le fichier de préférences de Pages. Éviter de cliquer durant l'exécution du script sauf évidemment pour sélectionner le dossier source. ************* Save the script as script or application bundle. Run it or drag and drop a folder icon on its icon. It opens every Pages's documents stored in the folder and save it as DOC file in a folder named "was_Pages_now_DOC". This one may be on the desktop or in the "~/Documents" folder. according to the property storeOnDesktop. If GUIscripting is disabled the script ask for your password to enable it. The script extract the default export path from the Pages's preferences file. Don't click when the script is running. Except, of course, to select the source folder. ************* Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) 2008/04/20 2009/06/17 adapté pour format .doc 2009/12/13 updated for MacOs 10.6… *) property theApp : "Pages" property theExt : "pages" property nomDuRapport : "report_Pages2DOC.txt" property nom_du_dossier : "was_Pages_now_DOC" property storeOnDesktop : true (* true = dest folder will be on Desktop false = dest folder will be in "~/Documents" *) property msg1 : "" -- globale property msg90 : "" -- globale property msg91 : "" -- globale -- property msg92 : "" -- globale property msg94 : "" -- globale property msg96 : "" -- globale property msg99 : "" -- globale property rapport : "" -- globale property dossierDeStockage : "" -- globale property dossierParDefaut : "" -- globale property localExport : "" -- globale property newExt : "" -- globale property newType : "" -- globale property isOs4 : missing value -- globale property isOs5 : missing value -- globale property theMenu : missing value -- globale property menuExport : missing value -- globale property types : {{"doc", "SLDocumentTypeMSWord", 2}, {"pdf", "SLDocumentTypePDF", 1}, {"txt", "SLDocumentTypePlainText", 4}, {"rtf", "SLDocumentTypeRichText", 3}, {"rtfd", "SLDocumentTypeRichTextBundle"}, 3} --===== (* our settings *) property typeNum : 1 (* 1 = WORD, 2 = PDF, 3 = Txt, 4 = rtf, 5 = rtfd *) property theButton : missing value (* 1 button PDF 2 button Word 3 button RTF 4 button Standard *) --===== on run (* lignes exécutées si on double clique sur l'icône du script application • lines executed if one double click the application script's icon *) tell application "System Events" to set dossier to choose folder (* dans un bloc System Events pour avoir un titre de dialogue "localisé" • in a System Events block to get a localized dialog title. *) my commun({dossier}) -- my commun({"Macintosh HD:Users:yvan_koenig:Desktop:for_see:" as alias}) end run --===== on open (sel) (* sel contient une liste d'alias des éléments qu'on a déposés sur l'icône du script (la sélection) • sel contains a list of aliases of the items dropped on the script's icon (the selection) *) my commun(sel) end open --===== on commun(elems) my nettoie() my prepareMessages() tell application "System Events" if not (UI elements enabled) then set (UI elements enabled) to true (* Active le GUI scripting • Enable GUI scripting *) set titres to title of processes end tell -- to System Events if theApp is not in titres then my activateTheApp() (* Active et ferme la fenêtre du document créé à l'ouverture • Activate and close the doc's window created at opening *) set {newExt, newType, theButton} to item typeNum of types (* item 1 = {"doc", "SLDocumentTypeMSWord",2} item 2 = {"pdf", "SLDocumentTypePDF",1} item 3 = {"txt", "SLDocumentTypePlainText",4} item 4 = {"rtf", "SLDocumentTypeRichText",3} item 5 = {"rtfd", "SLDocumentTypeRichTextBundle",3} *) set sysAtt to (system attribute "sys2") if 4 > sysAtt then if my parleAnglais() then error "This script requires MacOs X 10.4 or higher !" else error "Ce script requiert MacOs X 1.4 ou ultérieur !" end if else if 5 > sysAtt then set isOs4 to true set isOs5 to false if my getVersion() < "4" then set theMenu to 3 set menuExport to 13 else set theMenu to 10 set menuExport to 9 end if else if 6 > sysAtt then set isOs4 to false set isOs5 to true if my getVersion() < "4" then set theMenu to 3 set menuExport to 13 else set theMenu to 10 set menuExport to 8 (* was a wrong 9 *) end if else set isOs4 to false set isOs5 to false if my getVersion() < "4" then set theMenu to 3 set menuExport to 13 else set theMenu to 10 set menuExport to 8 (* was a wrong 9 *) end if end if my fermeFenetres() (* • Close existing windows *) my afficheLeMessage(msg1) (* Éviter de cliquer… • Don't click… *) tell application theApp to set localExport to localized string "Export" set dossierParDefaut to my getDefaultExport() as text set rapport to "" set dossierDeStockage to my creeDossierDeStockage(nom_du_dossier) (* Unicode text *) try repeat with elem in elems try my exploreTraite(elem as alias, "") end try end repeat if rapport = "" then set rapport to msg90 -- crée un fichier texte sur le Bureau set p2d to path to desktop set p2r to (p2d as Unicode text) & nomDuRapport tell application "System Events" if exists (file p2r) then delete (file p2r) make new file at end of p2d with properties {name:nomDuRapport} end tell set rapport to rapport as text write rapport to (p2r as alias) on error MsgErr number NroErr if NroErr is not -128 then beep 2 tell application (path to frontmost application as string) to ¬ display dialog "" & NroErr & " : " & MsgErr with icon 0 buttons {msg99} giving up after 20 end if -- NroErr is… return end try my nettoie() if my parleAnglais() then my afficheLeMessage("Export done.") else my afficheLeMessage("Traitement terminé.") end if end commun --===== on nettoie() (* pour ne pas stocker dans le fichier script • So it will not be stored in the script file *) set dossierDeStockage to "" set dossierParDefaut to "" set rapport to "" set localExport to "" set newExt to "" set newType to "" set isOs4 to missing value set isOs5 to missing value set theMenu to missing value set menuExport to missing value set theButton to missing value set msg1 to "" set msg90 to "" set msg91 to "" set msg92 to "" -- set msg94 to "" set msg96 to "" set msg99 to " " end nettoie --===== on afficheLeMessage(m) beep 1 tell application (path to frontmost application as string) activate if my parleAnglais() then display dialog m buttons {" OK "} default button 1 giving up after 10 else display dialog m buttons {" Vu "} default button 1 giving up after 10 end if end tell end afficheLeMessage --===== on creeDossierDeStockage(Nom) (* S'il n'existe pas, construit un dossier destination sur le bureau ou dans "~/Documents" • If does not exist, create a destination folder on the desktop or in "~/Documents" *) local dd, dds if storeOnDesktop is true then set dd to path to desktop as Unicode text else set dd to path to documents folder as Unicode text end if if Nom ends with ":" then set dds to dd & Nom else set dds to dd & Nom & ":" end if (* dossierDeStockage n'existe pas, on le crée • dossierDeStockage is not available, build it *) tell application "System Events" to if not (exists item dds) then make new folder at end of folder dd with properties {name:Nom} return dds as Unicode text end creeDossierDeStockage --===== on exploreTraite(elem, ptree) (* elem est un alias • elem is an alias *) local elem_, cl_, type_Id set elem_ to elem as Unicode text tell application "System Events" to tell disk item elem_ set cl_ to class if cl_ is folder then set type_Id to "" else set type_Id to type identifier end if end tell -- "System Events" set cl_ to cl_ as Unicode text if type_Id is in {"com.apple.iwork.pages.pages", "com.apple.iwork.pages.sffpages"} then (* C'est un fichier Pages. • It's a Pages document *) my 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"." & newExt --log nouveauChemin tell application "System Events" to if exists (file nouveauChemin) then set name of file nouveauChemin to nom_de_p & my horoDateur(modification date of file nouveauChemin) & "." & newExt (* name stamped *) try set {w, bof} to my getFrontWindow() tell application "System Events" to tell application process theApp click menu item menuExport of menu 1 of menu bar item theMenu of menu bar 1 (* Exporter… *) repeat until exists sheet 1 of window w delay 0.1 end repeat tell sheet 1 of window w (* sheet containing the buttons PDF, Word, RTF, Standard *) -- get properties of UI elements of radio group 1 if isOs4 then click button theButton of radio group 1 else if isOs5 then click checkbox theButton of radio group 1 else click radio button theButton of radio group 1 (* I hope that they will no longer change it *) end if -- isOs4 is true (* if typeNum is 2 then delay 0.2 tell pop up button 1 click click menu item quality of menu 1 end tell delay 0.2 end if *) click button 1 (* Suivant… *) repeat until exists button localExport delay 0.1 end repeat click button localExport (* Exporter… *) end tell -- to sheet… repeat 20 times if exists sheet 1 of window w then click button 2 of sheet 1 of window w (* "Ne pas consulter " dans éventuel rapport d'anomalies • "Don't review" in sheet reporting possible export anomalies *) exit repeat end if delay 0.1 end repeat end tell -- to process … System Events if dossierDeStockage is not dossierParDefaut then (* we must move the file from folder dossierParDefaut to folder dossierDeStockage *) set p_xport to dossierDeStockage & nom_de_p & "." & newExt tell application "System Events" to if exists (file p_xport) then set name of file p_xport to nom_de_p & my horoDateur(modification date of file p_xport) & "." & newExt tell application "Finder" to duplicate file nouveauChemin to folder dossierDeStockage (* • before 10.5, System Events is unable to move *) my wait4File(p_xport) tell application "System Events" 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Events" to tell application process theApp to return count of windows end getNbWindows --===== on getLocale(a, x) tell application a to return localized string x end getLocale --===== on getVersion() try tell application theApp to return version on error return "1" end try end getVersion --===== on parleAnglais() local z try tell application theApp to set z to localized string "Cancel" on error set z to "Cancel" end try return (z is not "Annuler") end parleAnglais --===== on prepareMessages() if my parleAnglais() then set msg1 to "Don’t click when the script is running." & return & "Except, of course, if it ask for." set msg90 to "No problem during the export process." set msg91 to "Package" set msg92 to "Not a " & theApp & "’s document" -- set msg94 to theApp & " can’t read it" set msg96 to "Not copied." set msg99 to "Oops" else set msg1 to "Éviter de cliquer durant l’exécution du script" & return & "sauf s’il le demande." set msg90 to "Exportation réussie sans incident." set msg91 to "Package" set msg92 to "Pas un document " & theApp -- set msg94 to theApp & " n’a pas pu le lire" set msg96 to "Pas copié." set msg99 to " Vu " end if set msg91 to "### " & msg91 & " ### " set msg92 to "### " & msg92 & " ### " -- set msg94 to "### " & msg94 & " ### " set msg96 to "### " & msg96 & " ### " end prepareMessages --===== --[/SCRIPT]

Try this app: http://tyorex.com/iWorkConverter
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Looking for a howto for an applescript to batch convert PPTS to Keynote...

Looking for a howto for an applescript to batch convert PPTS to Keynote...
Hi to group!
(cross posted this a couple of weeks ago to Keynote forum, no responses) Perhaps the query really belongs here...)
(I) Have a whole bunch of PPTs to convert to Keynote, now and more as time goes on.
Looked into applescript to try to automate this a bit (could open PPT file but did not see any way to 'Save' file from a script).
Also looked into bash scripting/automator too -- way too many options to choose from. Help!
Anybody done anything similar to this already?
TIA for pointers. //GH

A word of caution.
I have not tried the workflow before.
I am not an applescript expert.
These steps were quickly composed using my basic knowledge in Applescript
What I was planning was to create a script droplet that when a ppt file is dropped upon it, it extracts the name of the file and sets it to a variable to name the keynote file later. You might have to modify it a bit to batch process multiple files.
Try going through batch processing scripts made for quark or Adobe photoshop ( Not sure if these exist on internet) to see how they have implemented the steps in applescript.
To GUI Script Keynote, do these steps...
All the code has to go in here
<pre title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor" style="font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10px; padding: 5px; width: 720px; color: #000000; background-color: #E0E0E0; overflow: auto">activate application "Keynote.app"
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Keynote"
-- insert GUI Scripting statements here
end tell
end tell
</pre>
<pre title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor" style="font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10px; padding: 5px; width: 720px; color: #000000; background-color: #E0E0E0; overflow: auto">click menu item "Export…" of menu 1 of menu bar item "File" of menu bar 1</pre>
This will click the next.. button provided the default export type is set to PPT
<pre title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor" style="font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10px; padding: 5px; width: 720px; color: #000000; background-color: #E0E0E0; overflow: auto">click button 2 of sheet 1 of window 2
</pre>
This will click the Export button on the next window
click button 1 of sheet 1 of window 2
This piece of code can be used to set the name of the ppt file using the extracted name in the first step
<pre title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor" style="font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 10px; padding: 5px; width: 720px; color: #000000; background-color: #E0E0E0; overflow: auto">set value of text field 1 of sheet 1 of window 2 to "<string>"
</pre>
May be there is a better way out there.
Thanks for red_menace for his Script formatter script
Message was edited by: dj9027

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You could do it like this: http://www.santoshgs.com/blog/189/how-to-batch-convert-png-to-jpeg-using-photoshop-cs2/
But can I be honest? I'd do that with a more efficient and far faster conversion utility like IrfanView. Photoshop is incredibly slow for this type of work. For example, I did a quick test to demonstrate the difference in performance:
folder with 10 images in jpg format, 5600px by 5600px. Simple jpg to png batch.
Photoshop: over six minutes.
IrfanView: one minute and 40 seconds.
That's a rather big difference - and with large numbers of images I just do not have the time to wait for Photoshop to finish the job. It's too slow.
Another issue is that during the conversion process Photoshop cannot be used - while with a simple conversion utility you can leave it running in the background, and continue to use PS for other work if required. This matters if you have hundreds of images to convert.
Btw, Irfanview (windows only) is free to download @ http://www.irfanview.com/
The batch processing you can find under File-->Batch Conversion <b>
ImageMagick is also free and open source. It is a command line tool, and easy to use for conversions.Will also work on a mac. But it is much slower than IrfanView, a tad faster than PS.
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php
http://www.ofzenandcomputing.com/batch-convert-image-formats-imagemagick/

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I have over the years gathered a huge asset library of all kinds of graphic design assets. Now I need to put this into a system and I want to use Bridge since I'm a freelancer and can't afford another system (my library is over 40GB).
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Try
GraphicsMagick.

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Thanks,
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Half of the music that I've collected over the years, and now transferred onto my new MacBook Pro, is in the WMA format.
I am looking for a program that can batch convert ALL of these files to MP3, putting the MP3s in the same folders as the WMA files currently are, and then I will delete the WMA files.
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Or, if you happen to have access to a PC, iTunes for Windows can convert WMA to MP3, after which you can bring the MP3 files to your Mac on a flash drive..
then I will delete the WMA files.
It's about time.
Steve - one additional note: Make sure your files are normal unprotected WMA files, since protected WMA cannot be converted. Protected WMAs could have happened if you ever ripped a CD using the default settings of Windows Media Player, or if you ever bought tracks from one of the many (now-defunct) online stores that sold songs in protected WMA format.

Can I batch convert images in a folder hierarchy?

I can't seem to be able to create an Action or Droplet in Photoshop CS5 that will batch convert images in situ in a hierarchy of folders. In the Photoshop Actions you have to specify an explicit destination, and there's no "save back to the same place" option that I can find.
I used to be able to do this with ImageReady CS2, but Tiger is going to kill that. Help!

If you want to give it a try, paste the following text into a new file in ExtendScript Toolkit (part of Photoshop’s installation, Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities/ExtendScript Toolkit CS4 or /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities-CS5/ExtendScript Toolkit CS5) and save it as a jsx-file into Photoshop’s Presets/Scripts-folder.
After restarting Photoshop the Script should be available under File > Scripts and can be assigned a Keyboard Shortcut directly, recorded into an Action, (in CS4 and CS5) be used in a Configurator-Panel or started from ExtendScript Toolkit directly.
// 2011, use it at your own risk;
#target photoshop
if (app.documents.length > 0) {
// get document-path and -name; thanks to xbytor;
     var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
     var myDocName = myDocument.name.match(/(.*)\.[^\.]+$/)[1];
     var myPath = myDocument.path;
// save for web options;
     var webOptions = new ExportOptionsSaveForWeb();
     webOptions.format = SaveDocumentType.COMPUSERVEGIF;
     webOptions.optimized = true;
     webOptions.colorReduction = ColorReductionType.ADAPTIVE;
     webOptions.dither = Dither.NONE;
     webOptions.quality = 100;
     webOptions.includeProfile = true;
     webOptions.matteColor = new RGBColor();
     webOptions.matteColor.red = 255;
     webOptions.matteColor.green = 255;
     webOptions.matteColor.blue = 255;
// export;
     myDocument.exportDocument(new File(myPath+"/"+myDocName+".gif"), ExportType.SAVEFORWEB, webOptions);
Edit:
The Script could be recorded into an Action.
It would also be possible to create a Script that offers a dialog for File- or Folder-selection and subsequently operates on all selected/contained files of specified formats, but that would be a different approach from the Droplet.

Using batch convert tool on my website

Can anyone help me out with a few questions:
1) How can I use Batch Convert tool on my website where I will be able to process the files with an automated process?
2) How and from where can I get the API to embed on my website?
3) I want to automate the batch conversion process so that no human intervention is required. Can I do that?
Appreciate the answers.

amit.wadhwa wrote:
Can anyone help me out with a few questions:
1) How can I use Batch Convert tool on my website where I will be able to process the files with an automated process?
2) How and from where can I get the API to embed on my website?
3) I want to automate the batch conversion process so that no human intervention is required. Can I do that?
The batch processor in Audition is an internal tool, not an external one so no, you can't use it on your website because it's DAW, not a web development kit. There's no API available.

Image batch converter program

hi. i have a lot of images to upload for online gallery. total space and probably and more later, 1.1GB, which of them each photo is around 1, something MB.
i use archlinux. is there any batch converter program which gives me the option to convert many images together? if not on linux perhaps on windows?
ty in advanced

Yeah, I clicked here to post about mogrify.
It's very easy once you get a handle on what you want it to do (and work out the command), and if you do the same conversion often it is actually faster (for you) than having to click through some interface to select a batch of images and tell some gui-based application to process them.
I'm not one of these anti-gui guys, but mogrify is remarkably useful and convenient.
Here is some good info:
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/mogrify.html

Acrobat X Professional - Batch Convert - Please FIX!

When batch converting multiple MSWord Documents into Acrobat PDF's the process strips the title from the document (in the properties of the MS Word document) and replaces it with "filename.doc".
When you need to process 100's of work documents daily this becomes a tedious nightmare having to add individual titles to each and every pdf file.
As a power user of Acrobat this has never been an issue with any past version of the product. Please fix this.

Thanks for your reply Dave.
We have tried multiple ways to do this.
From explorer and selecting "Covert to Adobe PDF" although it works is not practicle with the volume of PDF's we create and each conversion requires user input.
The "Batch Create multiple files" from the File -> Create menu strips the title from the documents.
Im not sure what your mean by "opening multiple files in the selection dialog from the Create PDF button in Acrobat". Can you please explain this?
Just some backgrounf on ourselves. We are a team of 7 all using Acrobat X Pro 10.0.1. We are an Area Health Service Department based in Sydney Australia and we manage an intranet which covers 10 large city hospitals and associated allied health and other community services. We process many 1000's of PDFs. None of us in the team have been able to find a work around. I would really appreciate further information as requested above if you can help.

.wmf to .ai, .dwf, or .dwg batch converting

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