Re: Globally change URL path in PDF
Re: Globally change URL path in PDF
- Subject: Re: Globally change URL path in PDF
- From: David Crowe <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:32:25 -0700
John;
I once wrote a script that went through a multi-hundred page PDF
file, parsed every line, determined if it was a zip-code description
or not, and if there was, decoded the ZIP code and the other
information to create a tab-delimited file for import into a
database. That was all done with Adobe's javascript to collect the
data and AppleScript to do the thinking.
I agree that it's not easy, but a lot is possible if you're persistent.
- David Crowe
At 11:31 AM -0400 9/22/09, John Hawkinson wrote:
David Crowe <email@hidden> wrote on Tue, 22 Sep 2009
at 06:36:12 -0700 in <p06240832c6de822e3a5b@[192.168.1.106]>:
Adobe Acrobat is scriptable with their version of Javascript, which can be
initiated from AppleScript.
Unfortunately, its bindings are very limited, and it essentially
cannot do anything at finer granularity than the page level. I don't
think you'll be able to accomplish this sort of thing in anything
with Applescript bindings.
email@hidden
John Hawkinson
You can access the "Doc" property "baseURL" for example. If you're
lucky all the URLs were set up with this. If you get the
"JavaScript for Acrobat API Reference" document from the Adobe
website you can probably figure out how to modify individual links
within a document and then send Acrobat on a search-and-modify
mission.
>
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