Just wondering if there is a way to batch edit pdf documents and set the "Page Layout" and "Magnification" attribute of a document so that they all the documents are displayed the same way if you open them.
I'm a Mac so a Automator or AppleScript solution would be cool! BTW I have Acrobat Pro.
Thanks!!
this could be done with some really hard work via gui script (NOT recommended) or by way of javascript which has it's complications as well but is much more reliable than gui scripting you will need the the javascript reference to learn how to do the javscript part of the script and you will have to research how to run the js in your applescript if you have questions I'll be happy to try to help but I'm not just gonna hand you the code to this job.
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I am wondering if there is a way to edit pdf file (generated by Adobe Illustrator) in a web browser? They types of 'edit' that I'm after such as reposition element, changing color, changing text...etc and finally save the edited file.
iText seem like a good framework but not sure about it's capability.
Theoretically this is possible. But it would mean you would have to use a client-side PDF library capable of doing such edits. Such libraries are not common; in fact the only one I know of that could enable you to write something like this is created by PDFTron (https://www.pdftron.com).
(I know nothing more about that product; haven't used it or looked at it in detail)
i have a task about .PDF files that pdf file should open in browser with custom zoom level of 125% or 150%, i tried many times, but it is not working properly in firefox, as it implements zoom on PDF file but it switch on page#2, i study the adobe's given parameters for PDF file and tried to use them as following in href,
"SICS-47.pdf?page=1&zoom=125,0,0"
"SICS-47.pdf#page=1&zoom=125,0,0"
but no success, anyone here can help me please ?
thank you so much in advance.
The adobe partner reference states on page 5 that this is for IE and Netscape. I'm not sure how old this document is, but you might want to check the Firefox support for this functionality as it could be incomplete.
Reference: Adobe Partner
Another thing you could do is modify the PDF content to make sure the document opens properly. Depending on which tool you're using you could use a free library like the Perl API2 library or a paid tool like the Java iText library. Maybe there are command line tools out there that do the same, but I'm not aware of them.
I'm using Adobe Illustrator CS5 and ExtendScript Toolkit CS5.
I've got a very involved script and alert() isn't working anymore because stuff is within a loop. How can I simulate the fact that I'm using a specific Illustrator document so that I can use the debugging features of ExtendScript Toolkit?
I want it to be the same as being inside an Illustrator document and going "File->Scripts->Scriptname". If I just test the script inside ExtendScript, I get an error on
if (app.documents.length > 0) {
Thanks!
Solved!
I had to change the target application to Illustrator within ExtendScript Toolkit and set the debug level to $.level=2
to get it to work properly. I can now have breakpoints and all that good stuff.
I try to open PDFs or folders (in finder/explorer) triggered by a mouse click in a swf application running in flash player.
Opening a PDF via urlRequest and navigateToUrl() always opens the browser.
I read about this solution with fscommand and it seems that we have to write shell scripts for mac and PC. Doesn't sound perfect.
The swf is executed on cd ROM. So I think we can't use an air application and the classes of the air framework (File... etc.).
Is there a better way?
As far as I know, you unfortunately cannot open a PDF into flash natively. It sounds like these *PDF*s are static assets on your CD ROM so I would take a look at a PDF -> SWF conversion tool. Maybe something like swftools. All of this in efforts to replace your current *PDF*s with *SWF*s which you can then load via the flash.display.Loader class.
we go now with zinc. it seems to be very powerful. you can create a exe from any swf. zinc let´s you implement many functions in actionscript, that give you access to the system. open pdf or something it the smallest task then :) cheers, florian
I want to get started doing some scripts with Photoshop and I wonder if there's an editor out there that either already has Photoshop's objects or allows to load Photoshop's DOM for intellisense.
Any pointers?
The Extendscript Toolkit that comes with Adobe suite is pretty much all you need. It even has the entire DOM reference available through the help menu. It does code completion (intellisense) and you can run/debug scripts in the editor.