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Create a PDF of newspaper headlines with Automator
Some of you news hounds may be aware of Newseum, the "interactive museum of news." Every day, they publish the front pages of over 600 newspapers from several companies. Wouldn't it be cool to get just the ones you like delivered to your (virtual) door as a single PDF? Automator to the rescue!Dave Bednarski sent a great script he wrote to the folks at 37signals which serves that purpose. Basically, you enter the addresses of the papers you'd like to receive, filter for PDFs, download the result to the desktop and combine the lot by appending the pages into one big file. It's just that easy.
For an added bonus, attach this script to an iCal event and have your news waiting for you each morning. All that's missing is your mug of coffee, and the muddy pawprints of the family dog on the carpet after he runs out in the rain to chase the paperboy.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
corncracker said 8:13AM on 4-17-2008
Wow, I love this. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but it's nice seeing the stories all laid out in newspaper format, and the papers of your choice delivered to your desktop. Now if you could only click on one to read the REST of the story . . .
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bwente said 8:59AM on 4-17-2008
I first found out about the site after reading the how-to for the digital newstand. A great mac-min mod!
http://www.designondeadline.com/digitalnewsstand/index.html
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Blake said 12:16PM on 4-17-2008
I have been using an automator action to grab the Birmingham News and email the PDF to my iPhone for a while now. If you like the newspaper format you should checkout www.feedjournal.com It will allow you to add RSS feeds and it renders a PDF in newspaper style. It is very cool!
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Rob said 2:59PM on 4-17-2008
Awesome post Dave! Most useful one (to me, at least) on TUAW in a while. :-)
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Kyle said 3:01PM on 4-18-2008
What is the script that you enter into your iCal to get it to run?
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sajjan said 7:15AM on 7-04-2008
how it work
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