Acrobat: Batch Page Extract

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hey All,

Has anyone done this before?

Desire:
¢ while using acrobat pro
¢ extract the defined start to end pages
¢ save the extracted pages to another pdf (filenamed "Prefix " + StartPage + EndPage + “.pdf”)

Any help would be appreciated,

#2

Since extract is not available in the Acrobat dictionary, we can use the opposite approach:

  1. delete from the (defined endpage + 1) till last page of the PDF;
  2. delete from first page till (defined startpage - 1) of the PDF.

These will achieve the task of extracting a page range as requested.

#3

JavaScript does have an extract pages function and you could call on that from AppleScript.

#4

The following script works fine on PPC but not on Intel with Leopard, could you please advise? Thanks!

tell application "Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional"
	activate
	do script "this.extractPages({nStart:5});"
end tell