I could use some help with a problem I've been having:
I've started building a small app with Adobe AIR, using HTML and JScript (not Flex!). I need the app to be able to open folders that are located on another drive than C:. Till now, I just managed to open files or folders, but they are all on the same drive as File.applicationDirectory, File.userDirectory, etc.
How can I change the path to another drive than C:\? :-)
Thanks in advance for your time (and sorry for the mistakes, I'm from Germany and it's like 4.30 in the morning :D)
Daniel
edit/concretion
Basically, I just need to change the "air.File.desktopDirectory" line to another one that lets me open D:\ :-)
Does this help?
private function getDrives():void
{
var os:String = Capabilities.os.substr(0, 3).toLowerCase();
var currentDrives:Array = (os == "mac") ? new File('/Volumes/').getDirectoryListing() : File.getRootDirectories();
for each (var file:File in currentDrives)
{
trace("Drive: " + file.name + " Size: " + file.size);
}
}
The problem is solved!
function volume() {
var test = new air.File("file:///d:/");
test.openWithDefaultApplication();
}
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So, I am super new to using the JS interface within Acrobat and I am trying to write something for splitting PDF pages easily to an array of file names. I cannot find a lot of snippets around that seems to show me how to work with Acrobat JS. Can you provide some guidance on how a script similar to such will look like and how I can execute it within Acrobat? Thanks!
First, you will need Acrobat Professional or Standard for JS tasks generally. And you will execute code like you do within your normal terminal/immediates window within what they call the debugger tool for Javascript. You will need to first activate JS within Acrobat by going to Preferences and activate the Debugger. After you set the preferences, restart Acrobat, and find the tools for the Javascript debugger (different places based on your version, google it if you can't find it).
Once you get the debugger running, run the code below after modifying for the file names you wish to use and the appropriate file paths. Then highlight the entire code block and hit Ctrl+Enter and it will automatically split the pages for you. Enjoy.
Split();
function Split() {
var totalPages = this.numPages;
var i;
var arrNames = [ "SOME ARRAY" ];
var targetPath = "/C/Users/...SOMEPATH/";
try {
for (i = 0; i < totalPages; i++) {
this.extractPages({
nStart: i,
cPath: targetPath +arrNames[i] + ".pdf"
});
console.println("Completed: " + targetPath + arrNames[i] + ".pdf");
}
} catch (e) {
console.println("Aborted: " + e);
}
}
So I made a script for Photoshop based on this generator
The important part is
#target photoshop
function main() {
// prompt user to select source file, cancel returns null
var sourceFile = File.openDialog("Select a 1:1 sqaure PNG file that is at least 618x618.", "*.png", false);
if (sourceFile == null) {
// user canceled
return;
}
var doc = open(sourceFile, OpenDocumentType.PNG);
if (doc == null) {
alert("Oh shit!\nSomething is wrong with the file. Make sure it is a valid PNG file.");
return;
}
....
}
main();
this allways worked. But when today I wanted to change something in the script (I haven't even started yet and not used it for about 2 weeks) I suddendly only get an error (translated from german):
Error 8000: The file can not be opened since the parameters for opening are incorrect.
Line:764
-> doc = open(sourceFile, OpenDocumentType.PNG);
How can I open a PNG file via a File.Open dialog in a Photoshop script?
I already tried to add the app
var doc = app.open(sourceFile, OpenDocumentType.PNG);
to remove the document type specifier
var doc = open(sourceFile);
or to add this as I saw it in many forums
var doc = open(sourceFile, OpenDocumentType.PNG, undefined);
and variations between them. Nothing helped so far.
For debugging I also added
alert(sourceFile);
before the according line and get e.g.
~/Desktop/Example/originalImage_2000x2000.png
The problem apparently was with Photshop in general!
When I opened Photshop I didn't even get the default view of last opened files etc and actually was not able to open any file ... but never tested this first.
After rebooting the PC and launching Photshop now everything went back to normal and the script just runs fine and as expected.
Problem: I routinely receive PDF reports and annotate (highlight etc.) some of them. I had the bad habit of saving the annotated PDFs together with the non-annotated PDFs. I now have hundreds of PDF files in the same folder, some annotated and some not. Is there a way to check every PDF file for annotations and copy only the annotated ones to a new folder?
Thanks a lot!
I'm on Win 7 64bit, I have Adobe Acrobat XI installed and I'm able to do some beginner coding in Python and Javascript
Please ignore the following suggestion, since the answers already solved the problem.
EDIT: Following Mr. Wyss' suggestion, I created the following code for Acrobat's Javascript console to be run only once at the beginning:
counter = 1;
// Open a new report
var rep = new Report();
rep.size = 1.2;
rep.color = color.blue;
rep.writeText("Files WITH Annotations");
Then this code should be applied to all PDFs:
this.syncAnnotScan();
annots = this.getAnnots();
path = this.path;
if (annots) {
rep.color = color.black;
rep.writeText(" ");
rep.writeText(counter.toString()+"- "+path);
rep.writeText(" ");
if (counter% 20 == 0) {
rep.breakPage();
}
counter++;
}
And, at last, one code to be run only once at the end:
//Now open the report
var docRep = rep.open("files_with_annots.pdf");
There are two problems with this solution:
1. The "Action Wizard" seems to always apply the same code afresh to each PDF (that means that the "counter" variable, for instance, is meaningless; it will always be = 1. But more importantly, var "rep" will be unassigned when the middle code is run on different PDFs).
2. How can I make the codes that should be run only once run only at the beginning or at the end, instead of running everytime for every single PDF (like it does by default)?
Thank you very much again for your help!
This would be possible using the Action Wizard to put together an action.
The function to determine whether there are annotations in the document would be done in Acrobat JavaScript. Roughly, the core function would look like this:
this.syncAnnotScan() ; // updates all annots
var myAnnots = this.getAnnots() ;
if (myAnnots != null) {
// do something if there are annots
} else {
// do something if there are no annots
}
And that should get you there.
I am not completely positive, but I think there is also a Preflight check which tells you whether there are annotations in the document. If so, you would create a Preflight droplet, which would sort out the annotated and not annotated documents.
Mr. Wyss is right, here's a step-by-step guide:
In Acrobat XI Pro, go to the 'Tools' panel on the right side
Click on the 'Action Wizard' tab (you must first make it visible, though)
Click on 'Create New Action...', choose 'More tools' > 'Execute Javascript' and add it to right-hand pane > click on 'Execute Javascript' > 'Specify Settings' (uncheck 'prompt user' if you want) > paste this code:
.
this.syncAnnotScan();
var annots = this.getAnnots();
var fname = this.documentFileName;
fname = fname.replace(",", ";");
var errormsg = "";
if (annots) {
try {
this.saveAs({
cPath: "/c/folder/"+fname,
bPromptToOverwrite: false //make this 'true' if you want to be prompted on overwrites
});
} catch(e) {
for (var i in e)
{errormsg+= (i + ": " + e[i]+ " / ");}
app.alert({
cMsg: "Error! Unable to save the file under this name ('"+fname+"'- possibly an unicode string?) See this: "+errormsg,
cTitle: "Damn you Acrobat"
});
}
;}
annots = 0;
Save and run it! All your annotated PDFs will be saved to 'c:\folder' (but only if this folder already exists!)
Be sure to enable first Javascript in 'Edit' > 'Preferences...' > 'Javascript' > 'Enable Acrobat Javascript'.
VERY IMPORTANT: Acrobat's JS has a bug that doesn't allow Docs to be saved with commas (",") in their names (e.g., "Meeting with suppliers, May 11th.pdf" - this will get an error). Therefore, I substitute in the code above all "," for ";".
I'm trying to write a script that takes the current editors of a folder and changes their permission to view only only at the lowest level folders. Everything is working fine, except it seems that it is taking Google Drive too long to apply the permissions of the top folder (View only) to all of the sub folders. Because of this, the editors of TOP_FOLDER, who originally had Edit access to all of the sub folders since it was inherited from TOP_FOLDER, retain this access when I run the script even though when I preform the exact same action in Drive they all have View only access after I refresh the page.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?
function fixFilePermissions() {
var oldEditors = TOP_FOLDER.getEditors();
TOP_FOLDER.addEditors(ADMINS);
//remove All but the admins
for each (var editor in oldEditors){
//if editor is not an admin
if(ADMINS.indexOf(editor) < 0){
//remove editor
TOP_FOLDER.removeEditor(editor);
//add back as viewer
TOP_FOLDER.addViewer(editor);
}
}
recFixFilePermissions(TOP_FOLDER);
}
function recFixFilePermissions(folder){
while(folder.getEditors().length > ADMINS.length){
Utilities.sleep(200);
Logger.log(folder.getEditors().length - ADMINS.length);
}
Logger.log("Folder: "+folder.getName());
Logger.log("Editors: "+folder.getEditors());
Logger.log("Viewers: "+folder.getViewers());
if(folder.getFolders().length > 0){
for each (subfolder in folder.getFolders()){
recFixFilePermissions(subfolder);
}
Logger.log("Has Subfolder");
}else{
for each (var person in folder.getViewers()){
folder.addEditor(person);
Logger.log("Gave " + person + " Edit Access to " + folder.getName());
}
}
}
Can I load a local HTML file (with images and ...) into a WebView?
Just setting the Source parameter does not do the trick.
You can load it from a file as long as the file is part of the app package, e.g.:
WebView2.Source = new Uri("ms-appx-web:///assets/text.html");
From WebView.Navigate
WebView can load content from the application’s package using
ms-appx-web://, from the network using http/https, or from a string
using NavigateToString. It cannot load content from the application’s
data storage. To access the intranet, the corresponding capability
must be turned on in the application manifest.
For a 'random' file, I suppose you could prompt user via file picker to select the file then read it into a string and use NavigateToString, but the user experience there may be a bit odd depending on what you're trying to accomplish.
I was working at this problem for a long time and I found a way to do that:
At first you should save it in InstalledLocation folder. If you haven't option to create a new .html file you can just use file.CopyAsync(htmlFolder, fname + ".html");
Look into my example:
StorageFolder htmlFolder = await Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current.InstalledLocation.CreateFolderAsync(#"HtmlFiles", CreationCollisionOption.GenerateUniqueName);
IStorageFile file = await htmlFolder .CreateFileAsync(fname + ".html", CreationCollisionOption.GenerateUniqueName);
and than you can easily open your .html file:
var fop = new FileOpenPicker();
fop.FileTypeFilter.Add(".html");
var file = await fop.PickSingleFileAsync();
if (file != null)
{
string myPath = file.Path.Substring(file.Path.IndexOf("HtmlFiles"));
myWebview.Navigate(new Uri("ms-appx-web:///" + myPath));
}
Remember just only from InstalledLocation you can open it with ms-appx-web:///