Re: Applescript to burst multi-page PDFs into a series of single pages
Re: Applescript to burst multi-page PDFs into a series of single pages
- Subject: Re: Applescript to burst multi-page PDFs into a series of single pages
- From: peter boardman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:23:13 +0000
Steve Hussey (email@hidden) said on 30/1/03,
14:40:
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I have a number of PDFs which have multiple pages (many
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thousands). I want to be able to write a script that
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will split each PDF into 1000s of individual PDF files,
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where each PDF file is one unique page of the original,
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in the order that they were in the original file.
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If the original document was named 'FooBar.PDF' each
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PDF would be named FooBar0001.PDF, FooBar00002.PDF etc.
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Acrobat has an Extract Page command but this does not
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appear in its AppleScript Dictionary. Any suggestions?
One solution is to use the other page moving commands. For example:
--
set sourcefile to choose file -- source file
tell application "Acrobat 4.0"
-- open source document
open (sourcefile as alias)
set sourcedoc to document 1 -- ????
-- set up a temporary document
set tempdoc to make document
-- get the current length of the source file
set pagecount to count PDPage of sourcedoc
-- go through source doc and copy each page to temp
repeat with i from 1 to pagecount
set active doc to sourcedoc
replace pages tempdoc over 1 from sourcedoc starting with i number of pages 1 without merge notes
set t to "" & (path to desktop) & "test" & i & ".pdf"
save tempdoc to file t
end repeat
end tell
--
However, you should note that:
1: I hate scripting Acrobat - I don't understand the document addressing techniques.
2: This is an old script that ran with Acrobat Exchange 2.1 last century - I haven't upgraded to Acrobat 5.
3: This script is not reliable - it fails in a different way every other time. One problem can be avoided if you quit
Acrobat before you run the script.
4: Doesn't this screw up all bookmarks?
But the idea of copying to a temporary document might help.
Cheers
Pete
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