![]() ![]() Create Banner Image from Text This can creates an image (with an alpha channel) of the text passed to it using the chosen style settings. ![]() Website PopUp This action displays in a floating HUD, the webpage of the URL passed to it.Optionally, the formatting of the passed RTF file can be preserved in the book. Optionally, the book can contain movie, audio, and image files chosen by the user. Text To EPUB File This action creates an iBooks-compatible EPUB file from the text files passed to it.Here are a list of the important new actions: There are actions for turning text into images, text documents into EPUB books, also actions for displaying and retrieving web content, and a set of media actions (services) enabling the desktop encoding of video and audio files. Included in Automator for Lion are new actions with a focus on creating content for online and iOS distribution. To return a saved document to an earlier version, choose Browse All Versions… from the popup menu at the top right of the workflow window, and the screen will switch to the Time Machine-like view where you can browse and restore to a previously saved version. Like many other document-based applications in Lion, Automator fully supports the new Versions feature so you can easily return a workflow document to a previously saved state. NOTE: see the sidebar entry Missing Library Folder? to learn how to edit the contents of these special folders. If approved, any selected actions will be placed in the user Library > Automator folder, and any selected service workflow files will be placed in the user Library > Services folder, and be ready for use immediately. Just double-click the action or service workflow files, and you will presented with a dialog prompting you to approve the installation of the selected action and service workflow files. Installer applications are no longer required in order to add an Automator action or service to your library of actions and services. Simply select Duplicate To… from the Automator File menu and a copy of the frontmost workflow will be created, displaying the template picker sheet allowing you to choose the type of workflow plugin to apply to the copied workflow.Įasy Installation of Actions and Services ![]() Workflows can now be duplicated to another template types, such as from an applet to a service, or from a service to a print plug-in. The challenge of changing an existing Automator workflow into another type of Automator plugin has been resolved. Here are some of the new features for Automator and Services in Lion:ĭuplicating Workflows to Other Template Types Building on the dramatic success of Automator and Services (Reborn in Snow Leopard), Automator in Lion becomes a smoother more powerful creator of automation recipes. ![]()
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