Re: Automation in Acrobat 6
Re: Automation in Acrobat 6
- Subject: Re: Automation in Acrobat 6
- From: Brett Powley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:28:30 +1000
This sounds more like something suited to JavaScript in Acrobat --
search Adobe's web site for details.
You could start here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/js_developer_guide.pdf
Cheers,
Brett
On 14/06/2008, at 2:56 PM, Barry Conner wrote:
A friend asked me to help figure something out, mainly to see if its
possible.
He's tasked with monthly marking up a .pdf newsletter from a local
autism
support group, turning the links to a preferred blue color and
creating
'mailto:' links over all the email addresses. Its a volunteer
position.
He's got Acrobat Professional 6.something. The file originally
comes from
a PC-user printing to a PDF driver (CutePDF, or something like that).
He uses the Advanced tool in Acrobat of automatically making links
from
most of the URLs in the document, but it only works if they are very
well
formed (include the http:// in front, etc.) and it doesn't do
anything with
email addresses.
I'd like to help him even if its with a smattering of single-purpose
tools like 'turn the selected text blue' or 'turn the selection
into a
mailto: link'.... Better yet I hope to make a single selection
handle a
lot of it at once.
Anyway, I'm not a novice at programming, but very rusty on
applescript.
I sure could use a kick start. Have any of you done anything remotely
similar with Acrobat? I'd appreciate some pointers or links to
appropriate references. I searched the archives of this list and
didn't
come up with anything substantial. Would I do better on the Adobe
forums?
Thanks very much in advance.
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