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Aug 06, 2017 In the column to the right, click on New PDF Contact Sheet and drag it to the right. Click on the Options button and insert a checkmark next to “Show this action when the workflow runs.” In the same column, click on “Apply Quartz Filter to PDF Documents” and drag it to the right. Press Command-A, Command-Option-Y, click the Index Sheet button, then press Command-Shift-3. Just that easily, and you've made a contact sheet from the Quick Look display.
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You're on the right track, and @mankoff's answer is spot on. I'll elaborate in case you need more details.For reference, you could read or, more simply, to creating the sort of PDF workflow you want.As a summary. First open Automator and create a Print Plugin. Then select an action to move your PDF to a folder of your choice.Save the workflow with a meaningful name. It will automatically be placed in the correct folder (/Library/PDF Services).Now, when you are in Mail, you can select your workflow from the PDF menu of the Print dialog box.
Your PDF will be generated and automatically filed in the folder you specified.
1 The Automator workflow document window.2 The workflow input settings banner contains controls for identifying the data type of the workflow input, the application context in which the workflow is available, and the icon and color used to represent the workflow.3 The workflow assembly pane where Automator actions are placed in the order in which they are executed.4 The workflow input type menu determines the both the data and context required by the workflow. For example, if the chosen data type is “PDF files” then the workflow will only be enabled when one or more PDF files are selected. For those workflows that are not dependent upon having input, choose the “no input” option at the end of the menu.5 The chosen item on the application context menu determines in which application the workflow will be used. Choose the “any application” setting to have the workflow always available regardless of which application in frontmost.Beginning in macOS Mojave (v10.14) Automator Quick Actions (service workflows) have the option to be displayed and accessed from a Finder window’s Preview pane, and/or the Macbook Touch Bar.
Consequentially, the workflow settings banner contains controls for assigning an icon and color to the workflow that is used in its display in the those locations. 1 You can select an icon for the Quick Action from the list of provided elements, or choose an image file.
The chosen icon is displayed on eiher the Finder window Preview pane or the Macbook Touch Bar, and in the system prference pane. NOTE: a good template size for custom icon images is 36 by 36 pixels at 144 DPI resolution. Save the images in PNG format with an alpha channel. For more information, see the Custom Quick Action Icons section at the bottom of this page.2 The selected color is used when displaying the Quick Action in the Macbook Touch Bar.When the workflow’s input data type is set to either text, rich text, or Automatic (text), the option to replace the current application text selection with the results of the workflow, is enabled. 8 When the service input type is set to either text, rich text, or Automatic (text) the checkbox 9 for indicating replacement of the current text selection with the workflow result is enabled.9 When this checkbox is enabled and selected, the contents of the current text selection will be replaced with the output of the workflow.
If the checkbox is not selected, the current text selection will remain as is.Option filtering of the current text selection is available when the input data type is set for text elements, such as: URLs, addresses, phone numbers, dates, or email addresses. When one of these input types is chosen, option to pass only a list of the text elements found in the current text selection, or the entire selection, to the workflow, is enabled. 1 The Automator workflow document.2 The workflow input banner with controls set to accept PDF files selected in the Finder application.3 The Watermark PDF Documents Automator action will render the specified watermark image into the PDF file passed as input to the action. The resulting watermarked document will be passed to the next action.4 The Open Finder Items action will open the watermarked file into whatever application is assigned as the default application for editing PDF files, which by default, is the Preview application.
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