It WORKS! Thank you! You know that image of Snoopy from Peanut, dancing on top of his doghouse? Pretend to see Otto the Automator doing that.
I modelled the new workflow after the second one in the Stack Overflow thread, tweaks by “Dr. Tofu.” See screenshot below.
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why doesn’t Automator have some of these obvious actions built in by now? like “Get folder name in Finder” or “Get pathname from Finder” or even built-in variables like “Today’s Date” token with parameters to modify the format, like in Hazel? Do I have an old model or something and it hasn’t been updated?</Complaint>
Next I want something to automatically instruct PDFPen “Insert Page Numbers in top right header.” Then this will really be going places. Thanks again!