How to automatically add file location while printing

printing

I'd like to print a lot of text documents and I'd like to have a file location on the footer of each page of all documents. Of course I don't want to add them manually, but I'd like to set have them there automatically added just for printing. Is there a way how to achieve this in TextEdit or Pages?

Best Answer

As automagic as it gets:

Using the add on service from http://www.devontechnologies.com/download/products.html

Example -total of 37 choices)

WordService provides a large number of commands for working with selected text:

Reformat text paragraphs
Clean up tabs, quotes, line endings
Remove unwanted text parts
Sort lines or paragraphs
Change case
Shift paragraphs right or left
Obscure using Rotate 13
Insert date, time, or file path
Get text statistics

Download from App Store for free.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordservice/id899972312?mt=12

you select Insert File path and voila.

Related Solutions

How to print or export annotations in a pdf file

This is probably too late but I think I know the answer, so maybe it'll help someone. What you probably want to do is

Convert notes to skim notes
Go to File > Export > choose File format either Notes as RTF or Notes as text.

This answers your 'export to text document' questions. I don't see how you could print the PDF together with the text in the anchored notes, though.

Printing current date and time on each page

I finally found a usable solution using convert from ImageMagick, the PDF services mentioned by nathang and Automator.

Start Automator, create a new "Print Plugin"

Drag the "run shell script" action to the right and enter the following script:

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
convert -size 400x50 xc:white -font Arial -pointsize 24 -gravity center -draw "fill grey50 text 0,0 '`/bin/date`'" /tmp/stamp.png
cat

Add the "Watermark PDF Documents" action and add the file "/tmp/stamp.png" using the 'add...' button. (You probably have to create this file first, e.g. using touch /tmp/stamp.png in a Terminal). Then adjust the offset, scale and opacity as you like. I'm using x=480 y=820 scale=0.25 opacity=0.7.
Add the "Open Images in Preview" action.
Save the Automator script.

Now you should find a new action in the "PDF" drop-down menu of your printing dialog, which stamps the current date and time on each page and shows the result in Preview, from where you can print the document.

Best Answer

Related Solutions

How to print or export annotations in a pdf file

Printing current date and time on each page

Related Question