I'm trying to convert pdf to pptx invoking adobe acrobat using AppleScript.
Below code executes fine without any error but there isn't any output created.
--somecode--
save active doc to filePath using conversion "com.adobe.acrobat.pptx"
conversion using text class works fine.
save active doc to filePath using conversion "com.adobe.acrobat.plain-text"
I found this on adobe forum, and it remained unresolved(pdf to html).
https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-sdk/pdf-to-html-conversion-with-interapplication-communication-api-in-mac-os/td-p/9294002
Just to add I'm using adobe acrobat pro dc trial version.
Thanks
I was able to make it work. Used AppleScript to invoke adobe javascript.
Going through posts in various forums, found a user following the same approach for rtf documents.
set myScript to "this.saveAs(\""& output_file_path && "\", \"com.adobe.acrobat.pptx\");"
do script myScript
instead of
save active doc to filePath using conversion "com.adobe.acrobat.pptx"
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I am new to the PDF creations from OSX.
I want to convert my HTML file to the PDF file,Please help me out which is best way to convert .
I have try to search but getting only IOS supported classes.
https://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/mobile/ios_pdf_library.html
I have found below link for OSX but some method are deprecated and not properly working.
PDF Creation in Cocoa
I am using InDesign Server and a soap based application to communicate through the server.
I am able to get all fields of form used in indd document and also able to replace its text/value.
Now, I am looking to get all images used in indd doc and provide upload images options at my application and able to replace the images by user selected images. Can anyone provide script for identify and replace the images.
Secondly, for backward compatibility I have idml of an indd doc. Now how to import or open this idml and convert it to indd doc through script.
Thirdly, how to convert pdf into indd doc.
Please help me with these scripts.
To an IDML file into an .indd file, simply open it and save it
set theIDMLFile to "Macintosh HD:Users:me:Desktop:someidmlfile.idml"
tell application "InDesignServer"
set convertedIDMLDoc to open alias theIDMLFile
tell convertedIDMLDoc
save to ((characters 1 thru -6 of theIDMLFile) & ".indd") as string
end tell
end tell
I'm trying to batch convert a bunch of assorted iWork files (Numbers, Pages, Keynote) to PDF on the command line.
I've been trying cups-filter but there's no MIME type filter for the iWork types. I then looked into using qlmanage to generate the preview image and use that, but this doesn't seem to work for multi file Keynote documents as they generate as HTML rather than PDF.
Any suggestions? I'd rather not resort to AppleScript.
I created an .applescript script that converts all .pages files within a folder to .docx. .pdf support can be easily added. In pages2docx.applescript you just need to replace Microsoft Word with PDF.
Here's what I ended up going with, since I really wanted to avoid, AppleScript.
When saving an iWork document there's a "Include Preview In Document" checkbox. Checking this creates a "QuickLook/Preview.pdf" inside the iWork document bundle (which is actually a zip file). Luckily I had this checked for most of the zip files, so it was simply a case of unzipping to NSTemporaryDirectory and grabbing that file.
For those that didn't I put together a script to run qlmanage to create the document preview. For some that creates the PDF, for others it creates an HTML file. You can then use http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ to convert this HTML to a PDF.
Well... you need something that
understand the iWork file formats,
can render the documents to then create the PDF.
Unless you want to re-invent the iWork suite... Sounds simpler to just tell the iWork apps what you want from them.
You would do that via the Scripting Bridge
I would use Applescript, but perhaps you can use Ruby and Python with the Scripting Bridge to accomplish what you need
With Scripting Bridge, RubyCocoa and PyObjC scripts can do what AppleScript scripts can do: control scriptable applications and exchange data with them.
I haven't used the Scripting Bridge in a while, but I believe you can tell applications to print documents. And any application that can print in OS X can send it to PDF instead.
Here are a couple of commands to help those who want to get this working without much thought. It worked for me with a ppt file.
Make sure to get wkhtmltopdf from here.
qlmanage -p -o /tmp /path/of/file.ppt
wkhtmltopdf /tmp/file.ppt.qlpreview/Preview.html /output/to/file.pdf
You may have to fiddle with sizes if you want the original pages to stay consistent, for the ppt I was using the following parameters did the job:
wkhtmltopdf --page-width 200 --page-height 145 Preview.html file.pdf
Edit: I have written a Python script to do a batch conversion. Hopefully people can contribute to make it more robust:
https://github.com/matthewfitch23/DocToPdf
I have tried to find out the way I can put locks or disable the copy and paste on the PDF file after the conversion. I looked at the ConversionJobSettings properties but I couldn’t be able to accomplish this.
Based on what I have read, the sharepoint2010 Word Automation services API provides very limited capability in manipulating the conversion logics but is there any way I can lock down the content so that it cannot be copied?
Thank for your help
You will either need to code something up yourself or get a third party product such as this one, which allows conversion as well as PDF manipulation including security and watermarking.
Note that I worked on this product, so I am obviously biased. Having said that, it works brilliantly.
The only way to prevent copy and paste (as text) is to create image versions of the pages and saves those as a PDF.
a possible solution:
1) Use Word automation to print to a PostScript (PS) printer driver to get a .ps file
2) Use GhostScript to convert the PS to tif files
3) Create a PDF using the tif files (possibly with GhostScript too)
I would like to convert pdf, doc files to html files using Cocoa
Please help me in this.
Thanks in advance,
You can convert Word files to HTML using NSAttributedString. You can't do this in pure Cocoa for PDF files; you'll have to use a conversion tool, such as stigi suggested. To do that, use NSTask.
Cocoa's PDFKit framework can convert a PDF file to text, through PDFDocument's -string method for example. Of course this won't copy images or formatting though, and it depends on PDFKit being able to recognize text in the file.
there are a couple of tools for the unix commandline that do such kind of conversions.
check out http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/ & http://rtf2html.sourceforge.net/
you may see if there are other tools like this.
but to get back to your question. these command line tools can be called from within your cocoa app (won't work on the iphone) and produce the html result.
check out this link for a guide on how to embed such command line tools within your app.