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06/12/2010 11:56

This is a followup R4i Red to this thread about using a Third party Java tool for PDF compression. I didn't get successful font rendering for the compressed PDF file using the included command options for tool.pdf.Compress, so I left the '-noembed' option out, but you can use your own command options as also described in a comment to that earlier hint by changing them in step 23 of the Workflow. This Workflow is long but it demonstrates a technique I sometimes use for building and executing shell commands. Since then I created a Snow Leopard Service for executing the compression process.

 

I tested on a clean 10.6.4 system. Remember to download iPhone 4 Screen Guard.

Safari allows you to Drag and Drop images from a web page straight into an Apple Mail mail message. With Chrome that does not work. It produces a placeholder icon in the email message.

 

To be able to do this you will need to detour through Preview. Copy the image from the browser window and create a 'New From Clipboard' document in Preview. Select all of the image, copy it again, close the preview window, and paste it into the e-mail.

 

The reason for this is that Chrome sets the properties of the Clipboard entry differently and Mail gets confused as to dstt how to display the pasted content.

 

For keyboard fans this is the following sequence:

 

Cmd+C (Copy), Cmd+Space (Search), 'Preview', Enter (start Preview), Cmd+N (New from Clipboard), Cmd+A (Select All), Cmd+C (Copy), Cmd+W (close Preview window), Cmd+Tab (switch to Mail), Cmd+V (Paste). Voila!

When I send messages to my students, I frequently need to have a table with borders, etc. included in the body of the message. Mail doesn't seem to offer the ability to create and ds card format tables, so I use the following multistep process.

I create my message in TextEdit or Bean, including any tables with the formatting I desire.

Select the message

Copy and Paste it into Mail

The resulting email can still be edited. Both the source document and the mail message must be in Rich Text Format for this to work.

It provides an alternative to clicking a selected track in iTunes then hitting the play button. That action, of course, results in continued playback until the rest of the playlist to which the track belongs has finished playing, whereas running the script results in cessation of playback after the selected track has finished playing. If multiple tracks are selected, only the last selected track plays. Keyboard shortcuts remain available for Accessories iPhone 4 controlling transport actions while the track plays. To give the script a keyboard shortcut (emphatically recommended), use the instructions found here (among other places). I gave mine the shortcut Command+Option+P. Works in 10.6.4 with iTunes 10.0.1.

 

 

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