orrinfacey01: Bulk convert text files to PDF

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Bulk convert text files to PDF

Here is a quick AppleScript droplet to bulk convert text files (plain text, rich text, html, some code files like C and javascript files...) to PDF format.

Copy the following script into the AppleScript Editor (/Applications/Utilities/AppleScript Editor) and save it as an application.

Then drag-and-drop files onto it to convert them to PDFs.

 on open theFiles   set oldTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters   repeat with thisFile in theFiles     -- get file path as posix path     set inputFilePath to POSIX path of thisFile          -- create output path - same name with .pdf extension     set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."     set outputFilePathBits to text items of inputFilePath     set last text item of outputFilePathBits to "pdf"     set outputFilePath to outputF ...