PrintFu is a pretty cool service that takes your large documents and, in a couple days, delivers a nicely packaged "book." I did a 244 page business plan using the service, and it cost around US $7.00. Since I read about four business plans a week, I decided to write a script to automatically print to PrintFu. Thanks to the MacNN forums for the basis of the following AppleScript).
OS X 10.2.4 and newer has a thing called PDF Services (assorted hints on PDF Services) built in. It basically allows you to take a document, turn it into a PDF, and throw it to an AppleScript, Unix script, application etc. So save the following AppleScript as "Send to PrintFu" and place it in your user's Library/PDF Services folder (create it if necessary). The next time you print anything, you will see a new drop down-button on the Print dialog box. Click it, and select "Send to PrintFu" from that drop-down. Boom, you're done.
Read the rest of the hint for the script...
on open these_items
tell me to activate
set question to "Ready to send this file to PrintFu?"
display dialog question buttons {"Yes", "Cancel"} default button 1
set userChoice to button returned of result
if userChoice is not "Cancel" then
repeat with aFile in these_items
set pdfLocation to POSIX path of aFile
set thisurl to do shell script ¬
"curl -F \"fileUpload=@" & pdfLocation ¬
& "\" -F \"mcAction=processRemoteFileUpload\" http://www.printfu.org/index.cfm"
open location thisurl
end repeat
end if
end open
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