There are many third-party apps available for Mac that will batch convert images for you (Permute is one example). And then there's Preview, the powerful file viewer that's built into macOS. Preview ...

Tech blog Of Zen and Computing describes how to use the free command line program ImageMagick to convert a set of images from one file format to another (like JPGs to PNGs). You can do this same sort ...

PDF format is very useful for any documents that are going to be shared with others, whether by posting online, via email or printed as hard copies. Using PDF means that you can control not only the ...

The Automator app on Mac can be used to automate a wide variety of tasks to avoid mundane routine and save some time. For instance, you can use it to create a service to perform actions like rename ...

Converting texts between formats is a bit of a pain to do on a file-by-file basis, but thankfully, MacIssues shows how to convert text files in bulk using a simple terminal command. The tool you'll ...

Reader George Morrison is interested in bringing more automation to his life. He writes: I read your Five Awesome Automator Tips story and it made me think that I might use Automator with some of my ...

I have many Word files, a few hundred, which I'd like to convert to PDF. Is there a way, free? Alternatively, I have the same files as RTF (long story). So maybe, I could convert from RTF to PDF...? I ...

Today I’d like to show you how to quickly turn a bunch of color images into black and white. And not just once, but any time you like simply by dragging your images into a folder. Here’s how it works.

I have a folder of about 200 HTML files. I need to convert it to PDF. Easy, Acrobat Pro has a batch function, it works great. But I need to do it nightly. Every night. I obviously don't want to be ...