Re: Acrobat scripting
Re: Acrobat scripting
- Subject: Re: Acrobat scripting
- From: Adam Behringer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 16:37:45 -0700
On 4/27/02 1:41 PM, "AHMD" <email@hidden> wrote:
I am doing something similar but I would like to highlight each word instead
of copying it. Any ideas on how to do this? I found some reference to
highlighting in the OLE docs but not for Applescript...
For example, I want to highlight in yellow every occurrence of the word
"Apple" in a large pdf file.
Thanks,
Adam
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thanks
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I find this info and commands is very useful
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thanks for your reply
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I used it and it works
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but I can't copy my selection in the clipboard
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like this code
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tell application "Acrobat 5.0"
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set x to 10
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repeat 20 times
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set myselection to select text of AVPageView 1 from words {x, 1}
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--copy selection
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set x to x +5
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end repeat
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pls help how I get my selection copied??
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end tell
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----- Original Message -----
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From: Jack Morrison
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To: AHMD
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Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:12 PM
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Subject: Re: Acrobat scripting
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hello
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how I can write a script to select a text from a pdf file
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thanks
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Ahmed;
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I don't know how you got my email address and associated me with a solution
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to scripting pdf files! We don't do too much here with pdf other than
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automate the creation of pdf proofs from .qxd files. If we have to extract
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data from a pdf, it is a billable charge to our clients and we do it
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manually, then manipulate the data.
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This was posted on the applescript list earlier today...
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Jack
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