These scripts are designed to be used as Automator Quick Actions in the Finder (aka Services) PDF Services (in the PDF button of the Print dialog) or as Terminal commands, with filenames as arguments. This is all done with python scripts that access the Core Graphics Quartz APIs inside MacOS. Author, Creator, Table of Contents) to PDFs Add page numbers, watermarks, tints or other text and graphics to PDFs.Convert PDFs to images and images to PDFs.Everything you could possibly want to do to a PDF is just a click away!
Swift is brick slow as a scripting language, compared to python.
The repository for the Swift version of these scripts (along with shortcuts for Shortcuts.app) can be found here:īut. Also, the scripts could be compiled or easily refactored for other projects. As Apple's prime development language, it's the safe bet. So, what to do now to offer 'default' scripting to non-technical users?Īpple's Shortcuts.app allows scripts to be run, much as Automator does/did, so the question is: what language to use? Ruby and perl are similarly 'scheduled for removal' by Apple JavaScript and AppleScript are hideous -) - but Shortcuts.app also includes the option to run Swift code as a script. Once you done that, then typing pip3 install pyobjc should be enough to install the necessary library. You will also need to install the pyobjc library. That's what I'm using, and I've updated all the scripts to work with python 3. Python 2 and the essential pyObjC library can still be downloaded and installed, for the time-being, at least and the 'legacy' versions of the scripts should still run (the initial line may need changing to #!/usr/bin/env python instead of #!/usr/bin/python in some of the Automator workflows).īut if you're going to install python, it should probably be python3. PDFsuite NOTICE: The Retirement of python 2Īpple has finally removed python2 from MacOS with the introduction of Monterey 12.3 thus ending over 15 years of a stable, compatible scripting environment.
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