{"id":953,"date":"2007-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/07\/14\/891\/"},"modified":"2007-07-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T22:00:00","slug":"891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/07\/14\/891\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with PDFs on Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The built-in PDF support in OS X is simply great. I just found two additional helpers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>creating PDFs from office documents via OpenOffice, on the command line &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xml.com\/pub\/a\/2006\/01\/11\/from-microsoft-to-openoffice.html\">Batch Converting Legacy Documents<\/a> at XML.com (copy &amp; paste their Basic macro, write &#8222;&#8220;\/Applications\/OpenOffice.org 2.1.app\/\/Contents\/MacOS\/program\/soffice&#8220; -invisible &#8218;macro:\/\/\/Standard.Module1.SaveAsPDF(&#8222;\/Users\/tim\/Desktop\/test.ppt&#8220;)'&#8220; into a shell script and run it with &#8222;open-x11 test.sh&#8220;)<\/li>\n<li>combining PDFs from the command line &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macosxhints.com\/article.php?story=20060327192826493&amp;lsrc=osxh\">Combine PDFs without using Automator<\/a> at macosxhints.com (&#8222;python &#8218;\/System\/Library\/Automator\/Combine PDF Pages.action\/Contents\/Resources\/join.py&#8216; -o &#8218;\/Users\/tim\/Desktop\/output.pdf&#8216; &#8218;\/Users\/tim\/Desktop\/hello world.pdf&#8216; &#8218;\/Users\/tim\/Desktop\/hello world 2.pdf'&#8220;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The built-in PDF support in OS X is simply great. I just found two additional helpers: creating PDFs from office documents via OpenOffice, on the command line &#8211; Batch Converting Legacy Documents at XML.com (copy &amp; paste their Basic macro, write &#8222;&#8220;\/Applications\/OpenOffice.org 2.1.app\/\/Contents\/MacOS\/program\/soffice&#8220; -invisible &#8218;macro:\/\/\/Standard.Module1.SaveAsPDF(&#8222;\/Users\/tim\/Desktop\/test.ppt&#8220;)&#8217;&#8220; into a shell script and run it with &#8222;open-x11 test.sh&#8220;) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}