More Mac 101, tips and tricks for novice (and expert) Mac users. Have you every tried to copy and paste text from a PDF into a word processor document like Pages or Microsoft Word? Most of the time ...

If you have just one pdf to convert, we highly recommend using the built-in Preview app to convert to image. If you have to regularly convert PDF to image on Mac, we recommend you using the Automator ...

PDF is a wonderful format for reading documents, but once you move beyond reading, things can get complicated in a hurry. Thankfully, useful tools for working with PDF files are built into Automator, ...

My rabbit trail of the day: I have a not-small number of PDF's that I'd like to sort and file. The PDF's have customer name in them, which is what I want to sort on. The workflow(s) work exactly as ...

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It's been a while since I've paid attention to Automator actions, and I'm beginning to realize that I never quite worked them into my daily habits. Since I'm making more of a conscious effort to fit ...

If you like to review documents on your way to and from work, you likely know that you can use Apple’s free iBooks app to read PDF files on an iOS device running iOS 3.2 or later. What you may not ...

I need an Automator script that converts PowerPoint files into PDF documents. Automator has no such built-in action. And I don't know AppleScript. I need an AppleScript that can tell the PowerPoint ...

When Apple revealed macOS Mojave at WWDC 2018 last week, the company briefly teased a new ability that allows Mac users to quickly add watermarks to multiple pages within a PDF file, or a batch of ...

If you want to neatly share PDF pages on social media without relying on ugly screenshots, you should convert them to JPEG images, a.k.a. JPG. That's just one of multiple reasons why you'd want to ...