[FoRK] Should Exist: Save Box Rules

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Hi Jeff,

You can save an arbitrary Automator workflow as a Print Panel plug-in,  
where it appears as part of the "Save As PDF" button.

-enp
On Jan 4, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Jeff Bone wrote:

>
> Okay, so there's this one operation I find myself regularly doing  
> over and over again on my Mac that has me thinking...  this shit  
> should be automatable.  Basically, here's the scenario:  I  
> frequently save some web page (usually documentation for some tool)  
> as a PDF locally.  Mac OS X uses the title of the web page as the  
> default name of the file --- for example, I just saved a page called  
> "fish user documentation".  Problem is, I spend enough time in the  
> shell on Mac OS that I don't WANT file names with embedded spaces.   
> The transformation that I *UNIFORMLY* apply in all such situations  
> is simple:  I simply eliminate the spaces, and capitalize the first  
> letter of each word;  e.g. the file above becomes  
> FishUserDocumenation.  (Actually FishUserDocumentation.pdf...)
>
> It sure would be nice if such transformations were "advisable" in  
> the emacs sense rather than statically baked into the implementation  
> of the Save dialogue box (or whatever the NS* widget is...)
>
> Similarly, rules for dynamically automatically picking the default  
> save folder based on context would be nice...
>
>
> jb
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