A story

So I'm still trying to figure out how to properly use the new camera, and then I realized that there was no instruction manual in the box. So I did what anyone lacking information does: go to Google. Within minutes I found and downloaded 2 PDF documents containing the instructions. Now from there I wanted to get these files onto my iPod Touch so that I could have them whenever I needed them. But then the problem is that there's no way to sync PDF documents to an iPod Touch directly. Sure, you could just attach the files to an email and then email yourself, then download the files. But that means you have to open up Mail every time you wanna see it, and it just takes too long for my liking.

An easier way to view these files would be through Photos. But Photos doesn't accept PDF files, so I had to find a way to convert a multi-page PDF document into several individual JPG files. So once again I turned to Google, and found out that using Automator would be the best way to go about doing this. Thing is, I've never used Automator before, so I looked up how to do that, with Google. But that actually got more confusing that it needed to be, so I did a more specific Google search, and found a preset to use with Automator. So I got that set up, and tried it and it kinda worked. Didn't turn out the way I'd like it to, so I tweaked the setting a little, and finally got the JPG files I needed.

From there it was pretty straight forward. I just imported the new JPG files into iPhoto and names the events as Small Manual and Big Manual, so that they would appear that way in Photos on the iPod. Finally I went into iTunes and synced the iPhoto events to the iPod, and that's what you see in the above picture.

And you know what, in the time it took me to do all of this, I could've just read the whole damn manual and memorized everything I needed. But oh well, at least now I have the manuals at all times, and I learned how to convert PDFs into JPGs for future scenarios lol