![]() Double-click on Open and you’ll open the app. You’ll get a drop-down menu whose first selection is Open. So right-click or control-click on the Vipriser icon in the /Applications folder once. ViPriser’s developer didn’t sign the code. Now move Vipriser from your /Downloads folder into your /Applications folder.Ħ. If you see the ZIP file, just double-click on it to open the ZIP archive.ĥ. You may already see the Vipriser app in your /Downloads folder, because you’ve left Safari on the default setting of opening “safe” files such as archives. Go to where you’ve downloaded the Vipriser ZIP file (by default, it’s your /Downloads folder in your /Users/ folder). The caption on-screen says it’s Vipriser 2.1, but you’ll download version 2.2.Ģ. So here’s my illustrated list of the steps you need to take to install Vipriser 2.2, which works with OS X 10.9 to the latest, macOS 10.2.2. ![]() I mean dealing with the fact that it’s not officially signed by an Apple developer and you have to go through some steps to open it the first time. I’m not talking about compelling it from source code. Vipriser takes a bit of effort to install. You’re done in a flash and off to the next article. Just hit the Command+P keys, perhaps choose how many pages of the article you want to print (leave out the extraneous comments), and press the Enter key to start printing. If you’re surfing the Net, you don’t have to stop and set up the name and destination of the PDF of the article. They all go into a single folder, where I can choose to move them later to another folder. It assigns each print job a unique number and gives the PDF a name based on the title of the article. Now I use the very handy Vipriser app, which mimics a printer, but prints to a PDF instead of paper. But you have to set a destination and give your PDF a name. That’s very handy if you want to save a receipt to the reestablished Web Receipts folder. I used to use the PDF menu on the Printer Dialog. ![]() Transform PDF to PDF/A or other formats.I’ve saved lots of on-line articles as PDFs for future reading. Great care has been taken to ensure each action is configurable, yet easy to use.įurthermore, VipRiser PDF Ops come with its own virtual printer (available separately as free download), making it into incredibly powerful tool. See: Render as Webpage, Render as Presentation designed for publishing workflowsĪll actions where intended to be used within Automator workflows from the very start. Rendering PDF as a web page eliminates this problem by transforming it into a collection of HTML, CSS and image files that any web browser can view.įurthermore, this makes it easy to embed your PDF with other HTML-based content like within a wikis, blogs or CMS. See: Render as Image, Change Color Space turn PDF into a Web Pageĭue to the fact a PDF needs an external app/plugin to view it, publishing it online may not always be as straightforward as one would like. ![]() VipRiser offers an option to stitch resulting images together, which works great for multi-page PDFs. VipRiser can crop PDFs by changing its structure or by adjusting its CropBox.Ĭropping is great way to reuse existing PDF content, such as charts or data-tables, in a new way.Īn alternative to publishing PDF as a web page is to turn in it into set of images. Indispensable for removing parts of a page like headers and footers and/or extracting parts of a PDF for further processing. See: Extract Text from PDF, Flatten PDF, Extracted Images crop PDF pages This functionality is great for importing data from forms or re-editing text in a word processor.Īs it uses layout information to extract text, it will continue to work even when a PDF has already been flattened or re-processed.Ĭoupled with other workflows, you can import the CSV or XML format it produces right into Excel or database such as FileMaker.
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