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Andrew Rondeau

PDF Thumbnail Generator - OSX

Published: Sat Mar 15 2008 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Available on Github:

The PDF Thumbnail Generator is designed to allow for easy creation of thumbnails from PDF files.

There are two versions:

  • Create Thumbnails of the First Page of Many PDFs: Creates a thumbnail of the first page of every PDF that is selected when the workflow is run
  • Create Thumbnails of Every Page of a Single PDF: Creates a thumbnail of every page of a PDF, allows for interactive saving of desired pages.

To run, select the Workflow application with the robot icon.  The document icon will open the source in Automator if you choose to edit the workflow.

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