How to set Destination Folder from Safari "Print" and/or Save As PDF?

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Hey Folks,

There's a much better way to go about this.

PDF Service Template.zip (1.1 KB)

Goes here:

~/Library/PDF Services/My Test Ouput Folder

It's just a simple Bash script marked as executable, and you can edit it with any plain-text editor.

Change the name of the file as desired.

Change this line at the top to the path of the folder you want to print your PDF to:

OUTDIR="$HOME/Downloads/My Test Output Folder"

This is what I did with Web Receipts:

You can assign it a keyboard shortcut using System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts > All applications.

I gave it an odd-ball keyboard shortcut I am unlikely to use anywhere else.

Then I have an extremely simple macro to open the Print dialog, wait for it to be open, and then press that keyboard shortcut.

Print { PDF to Web-Receipts dir }.kmmacros (2.8 KB)

I've tried a number of methods to do this using Keyboard Maestro and AppleScript & System Events, but this one has turned out to be the fastest and most reliable.

-Chris

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