Today I had to purchase a Priority Mail label off the USPS web site and had a few problems with it. First off, Safari decided to keep eating the sample label. I then switched to FireFox and doing a Save As for the label saved it, but the file didn’t end in .pdf, so Preview wouldn’t open it even if I forced it to open it. (Yes, Preview should have attempted to decode it.) Once I renamed the file with a .pdf extension, the file opened just fine. Hmmm…what should I do to automate the process?
I remembered that I had a program called Hazel on my machine that watches folders and acts on them. I removed Hazel on my last machine because I was trimming things down (it got bogged down). I created a simple set of rules to change all files that start with com.usps to end in .pdf, open them and then trash them. Now I have to figure out more uses for Hazel as this is a great way to automate things.
That’s odd… I know that printing labels has been working fine here in Chrome – FedEx and UPS probably are more mac compatible (I imagine they would have to be)
Who knows. Maybe I did something wrong and it’s only broken for me!