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I think I have used Automator ages ago and now have a task that I think is perfect for Automator, but I'm having trouble to get my head around the way Automator is set up in El Capitan.
I basically can't figure out which of the eight options to use to even starts.
The task is very simple
I have a few thousand pdf files in a folder on my desktop.
What I need in the end is a jpeg file of the first page of each pdf file.
So manually I just:
1. Select the folder on my desktop
2. Open the first pdf
2. Save this pdf as a jpeg (which will save only the first page of the pdf as a jpeg)
3. Save the jpeg in the same folder
4. Close the pdf
Repeat by selecting and opening the next pdf
First problem I'm running into is that automator does not show an action "Open pdf"
If I look at "Open Word Documents", a pdf document is not one of the types.
And I thought this would be easy and straight forward.
I basically can't figure out which of the eight options to use to even starts.
The task is very simple
I have a few thousand pdf files in a folder on my desktop.
What I need in the end is a jpeg file of the first page of each pdf file.
So manually I just:
1. Select the folder on my desktop
2. Open the first pdf
2. Save this pdf as a jpeg (which will save only the first page of the pdf as a jpeg)
3. Save the jpeg in the same folder
4. Close the pdf
Repeat by selecting and opening the next pdf
First problem I'm running into is that automator does not show an action "Open pdf"
If I look at "Open Word Documents", a pdf document is not one of the types.
And I thought this would be easy and straight forward.