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Perhaps, I am missing something obvious, but I'm having so much trouble doing this. I have a folder with multiple images into it that I want to process into a *single* PDF (NOT each image ending up its own PDF).

In the past I have done this manually with a shell script:

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img2pdf --fit shrink --output out.pdf $(ls *.{jpg,png}|sort -V)

I don't care to necessarily use this, and could just as well use an automator workflow or something else. I just seem to be having trouble getting Hazel to work on *all* the images at once and to process them into a single PDF. Is there any way to do this?

Rules operate on the item matched. While you can't have a rule match multiple files at once, you can have Hazel match a folder. If you can isolate the files to a folder, you can then have a rule match that folder, where the script can then run on the contents.

I've isolated the files to a folder using 'sort into subfolder' and created a new rule that isolates that folder. However when I try running the script on the folder the PDF comes out blank, which I presume means it's not actually running on the contents.

The two actions I have are 'Run rules on on Folder Contents' and then 'run shell script' with the above code pasted in. Is there something wrong with the actions? the script? Any ideas? Thanks for the help!

Don't use "Run rules on folder contents" in this case. Also, the shell script itself needs to be tweaked to take into account the path to the directory, and not the files within is passed in.