Need help concatenating PDFs
Need help concatenating PDFs
- Subject: Need help concatenating PDFs
- From: "Rips Ethan J" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:18:15 -0500
- Thread-topic: Need help concatenating PDFs
Hello, all-
On Wednesday, October 17, 2001, Bob Kiolbassa wrote:
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This is from a large kernel of code posted to this AS digest some time ago.
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Unfortunately I have long since lost any note who from this list contributed
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the code. Drop the pdfs onto the icon and it will merge all pdfs into one by
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using the apha order of the files (as viewed in the Finder) you drop on it.
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This Script requires Acrobat 4.0 to work. Make sure neither Distiller or
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Reader is open when this is run. Not tested on Acro5.
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Hope this helps.
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-- -start script ----watch those line breaks. Save as an app, should be a
droplet
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on open fileList
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set theCount to (count each item of fileList)
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set newFile to choose file name with prompt "Name your new PDF file?:"
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default name "Files" & theCount & ".pdf"
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tell application "Acrobat(tm) 4.0"
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activate
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end tell
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tell application "Finder"
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set fileList to (sort
fileList by name) as alias list
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set doc1 to name of item 1 of fileList
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end tell
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tell application "Acrobat(tm) 4.0"
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open (item 1 of fileList)
with invisible
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set fileList to rest of fileList
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repeat with afile in
fileList
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tell application "Finder"
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set doc2 to name of afile
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end
tell
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set pageCount to count each PDPage of document doc1
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open afile
with invisible
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set pageCount2 to count each PDPage of document doc2
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insert pages document doc1 from document doc2 starting with
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1 number of pages
pageCount2 after pageCount
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close document doc2 saving no
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end repeat
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activate
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save document doc1 to newFile with linearize
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display dialog
"Finished."
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end tell
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activate me
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end open
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-- end script
I'm running Acrobat 5.0.5 on OS 9.2.2 & I need to concatenate a large number
of PDFs ASAP. I used the code above previously in the same environment & it
worked; now, when I really need it, it only opens each file, but does no
concatenation.
Can someone please help me with this? I need to get this job done ASAP.
Thank you.
Ethan
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