Pop plugin · Files & System
Combine the selected images and PDFs into one PDF in file name order. With a single PDF, save each page as an image, copy its text, extract or split pages, add page numbers, add or remove a password, or compress it. For a scan, recognize the text and save a copy you can search and copy from.
How to use it
Select something, hold the right mouse button, swipe. The animation plays the steps one after another; click a step to see it again.
- Select a PDF in FinderSelect images and PDFs together to combine them.
- Hold the right mouse buttonAbout a quarter of a second. A short click still opens the usual menu.
- Swipe to “PDF” and let goIt sits on the ring where you put it, and it’s always in All Actions.
- Everything you can do with itSave pages, copy text, add numbers or a password…
- Add page numbers
- Pick the place and styleThe preview shows the result.
- A numbered copy appears
What it does
Select images and PDFs and Pop combines them into one PDF in file name order, saved next to the first one.
With a single PDF, the card can save each page as an image, copy all its text, extract pages or split it, add page numbers, add or remove a password, or compress it.
Page numbers come in four styles (1, Page 1, 1 / 12, - 1 -) at the bottom center, bottom right or top right; the cover can be skipped, and the little preview shows the result.
For a scan, Recognize Text reads the text on your Mac and saves a copy that looks the same but can be searched and copied from. The original is never changed.
Install it
Plugins aren’t part of the Pop download. Install this one when you need it.
1From Settings
In Pop’s Settings › Actions, find “PDF” under Plugins at the top and click Install. It downloads from Pop’s GitHub release in a few seconds and works right away, without a restart.
2Or from the ring
Open All Actions on the ring and search for “PDF”. Plugins that aren’t installed are listed after your actions: click it to install, and it runs right away if it can handle what you selected.
3Then use it your way
Put it on the ring in Settings › Ring, give it a shortcut, or run it from Shortcuts and scripts with its link:
pop://run?plugin=pdfUninstall it from the same list when you no longer need it: the plugin and its settings are deleted. After Pop updates, installed plugins are updated with it, and with iCloud sync on, what you install syncs to your other Macs.
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