Re: Can Acrobat PDF's be saved as single pages via Applescript
Re: Can Acrobat PDF's be saved as single pages via Applescript
- Subject: Re: Can Acrobat PDF's be saved as single pages via Applescript
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 09:51:55 +1100
On 9 Jan 2017, at 7:33 am, Brian Christmas <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I’m in a bind.
You're going in circles.
PDF is a format that simply doesn't support "cropping" in the sense you want. Full stop. There's no magic incantation, so you can stop looking.
Your choices are:
* Go the tif route. This will result in much bigger files and some loss of quality -- how much depends on how big a file size is acceptable. If *any* loss is unacceptable, then stop considering this option.
* Find a scriptable PDF editor that does low-level PDF editing of the sort you need (that is, building a new PDF from a selected area). Acrobat is not such an editor. Using InDesign as I mentioned before is effectively doing this. There may be some other suitable PDF editor around.
* Mask the areas outside the crop box that might contain stuff you don't want. You can probably do that with Acrobat in javascript by adding empty text fields with a white background on each side.
* Find someone who knows low-level PDF programming and pay them to write something for you. You say it's costing your clients a LOT of money, so presumably that won't be a problem.
--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>, <latenightsw.com>
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