{"id":68,"date":"2021-01-04T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2021-01-20T18:33:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T23:33:51","slug":"convert-pct-pict-file-to-jpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Convert PCT \/ PICT file to JPG"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had over a thousand outdated PCT (PICT) files I needed to convert to JPG. I wasn’t having much success with Preview, Photos, Lightroom, Photoshop, etc. I tried this Resize!<\/a> app but it gave me blank images.<\/p>\n

So, I wanted to share my method I finally came up with.<\/p>\n

We’re going to use Automator to convert to PDF then to JPG. The main problem I ran into was that Automator would combine all the PCT files into ONE HUGE PDF. So we need the “Dispense Items Incrementally” action.<\/p>\n

First, download the action installer “Dispense Items Incrementally” from this site<\/a>. It should show up in Automator automatically (if you have Automator open, quit and re-open).<\/p>\n

\"\"When Automator opens, select “Quick Action” (or “Service” if it’s an older version).<\/p>\n

Search for each of this actions and drag them into your workflow in this order:<\/p>\n

Get Specified Finder Items<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dispense Items Incrementally<\/strong><\/p>\n

New PDF from Images<\/strong><\/p>\n

Loop<\/strong><\/p>\n

Set “Loop” to Loop automatically and Stop after 30 minutes (or longer if needed \u2014 it can’t be 0). Select “Use the current results as input”<\/p>\n

Set your Output folder in the New PDF from Images action. Keep the default settings.<\/p>\n

Now just add the PCT files in the Get Specified Finder Items action using the “Add…” (or drag them in) and click Run at the top.<\/p>\n

When that’s done, we need to convert the PDFs to JPGs.<\/p>\n

First: Select New<\/strong> in the Automator File<\/strong> Menu.<\/p>\n

Create another Quick Action\/Service:<\/p>\n

Get Specified Finder Items<\/strong><\/p>\n

Render PDF Pages as Images<\/strong><\/p>\n

Move Finder Items<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click the “Add” button or drag the PDFs into Get Specified Finder Items window (like before).<\/p>\n

Specify where you want the images saved in the Move Finder Items box.<\/p>\n

Click run. If Automator gives you a message, “This quick action will not receive input when run inside Automator,” just click Ok.<\/p>\n

That’s it!<\/p>\n

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I had over a thousand outdated PCT (PICT) files I needed to convert to JPG. I wasn’t having much success with Preview, Photos, Lightroom, Photoshop, etc. I tried this Resize! app but it gave me blank images. So, I wanted to share my method I finally came up with. We’re going to use Automator to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YXXB-16","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andylangager.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}