Hi, I am trying to create a quick action that would allow me to convert PDF files to PDF/A. Im using the ghostscript command to do this. I was successful with the script and in script editor, it works flawlessly, however, when I try to apply the script using Automator and invoke it using Quick Action in the Finder, the gs command does not fire up until I manually click the finder window (until then, the script is idle). This is the script:
on run {input, parameters}
repeat with theFile in input
tell application "Finder"
set theFilesFolder to (folder of theFile) as text
set filePath to POSIX path of theFile
set theName to name of theFile
end tell
-- Extract the base name without extension
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
set theNameWithoutExtension to text items 1 thru -2 of theName as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "" -- Reset to default
-- Define the PDF/A output path
set pdfaPath to theFilesFolder & theNameWithoutExtension & "_PDFA.pdf"
set quotedPdfPath to quoted form of filePath
set quotedPdfaPath to quoted form of POSIX path of pdfaPath
set gsPath to "/opt/homebrew/bin/gs"
-- Convert the PDF to PDF/A-2b using ghostscript
set gsCommand to gsPath & " -dPDFA -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sProcessColorModel=DeviceRGB -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFACompatibilityPolicy=2 -sOutputFile=" & quotedPdfaPath & " " & quotedPdfPath
try
do shell script gsCommand
on error errMsg
display alert "Ghostscript Error" message errMsg
end try
tell application "Finder"
update theFilesFolder -- Refresh the folder view
end tell
-- Optionally, you can remove the original PDF file here if needed
-- do shell script "rm " & quotedPdfPath
end repeat
return input
end run
Can someone suggest what to do here? As you can see, I tried implementing a refresh command within the script, but to no avail. I’m desperate. Of course, Automator has all the permissions.