Acrobat -- Create Custom Email Links

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Acrobat has a built-in way to create links from email addresses, but the links are all the same and can't be customized in any way.
Using this script you can create email links that change their color when you hover above them with the mouse (from black to blue), and can even be customized to create an email with a certain subject line, CC or BCC addresses, and even the email message body itself.

The PDF file with the text before running the script:

The same file, with the newly created link:

The link as it looks like when hovering over it with the mouse:

If you have any questions regarding this tool, you can contact me directly.

Acrobat -- Extract Groups of Pages

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Using this tool you can extract repeating groups of pages from your PDF files.
All you have to do is enter the number of pages per new file, and optionally range of pages to process in the original document (the default values are the first and last pages), and the script will take care of the rest.
The new files will be saved in the same folder as the original one.

For example, if you have a 10-page document and you select the following settings:

When the script is done, you'll see that 4 new files were created:

And you can find them in the same location as the original:

If you have any questions regarding this tool, you can contact me directly.

Acrobat -- Batch Combine All Files in a Folder

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This is a new batch tool, so it can only be used in Acrobat Pro or Extended.
With this tool you can combine all of the files in a folder to a single file (in order!) and have this file saved into the same folder (using the folder's name as the new file name).
New feature: You can now select to automatically create a bookmark pointing to each file in the merged document.
ANOTHER new feature: Now you can also select to create a single, "master" file at the end of the process, which contains all of the processed files, including a bookmark for each folder and file.

So if you have the following folder structure:

- \Root
- 1.pdf
- 2.pdf
- 3.pdf
- \SubFolder1
-- 4.pdf
-- 5.pdf
- \SubFolder2
-- \SubFolder3
--- 6.pdf
--- 7.pdf
-- 8.pdf
-- 9.pdf

The script will create 3 combined PDF files: files 1 to 3 will be saved as Root.pdf in the root folder; files 4 to 5 will be saved as SubFolder1.pdf in SubFolder1; files 6 to 7 will be saved as SubFolder3.pdf in SubFolder3; and files 8 to 9 will be saved as SubFolder2.pdf in SubFolder2.

Here's another example:
We have a folder called "Placeholder 3" under C:\Temp\Forms\.

We run the batch on "C:\Temp\Forms" and select to create a bookmark for each file (excluding the ".pdf" extension).

The result is a single file, called "Placeholder 3.pdf".

This file is the result of all the single files in that folder, including the bookmarks we wanted to create.

After the individual files have been combined, you can create the "master" file:

For more information about this tool you can contact me directly.

Acrobat -- Apply Automatic Date Calculation

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One of the most common tasks when working with date fields is to automatically apply a certain data calculation to a field. For example, you want to have a field with today's date, and then one that automatically shows 4 days after from that date, or 2 weeks or a month, or something similar. This is usually quite complex and time consuming to implement, but no longer...

Using this new tool I've created you can easily select your initial field, the amount of time to add (or subtract!) from it, the target field, the date format to use, and you can even specify to the script to ignore weekends (Saturday and Sunday) or to specify a list of holidays to ignore (this can be useful when calculating working days, for example).

Here's how the tool looks like in Acrobat:

In this case, the result is that the field called "Text3" will automatically have the date of "Text2", plus 5 weeks, unless that date falls on a weekend or one of of the holidays specified in the list. In that case it will be the first following day after that.

If you have any questions regarding this tool, you can contact me directly.

Acrobat -- Search & Replace Bookmarks

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Using this new script you can search and replace the names of all the bookmarks in a single file, and if you have Acrobat Pro you can run this as an Action (or Batch Sequence) on multiple files, all for the low price of just $20!

Using this script is very easy. You just enter the search term and the replace term:

And all of the matching bookmark names are edited.
Before:                              After:

On top of that, you can even use some basic Regular Expression commands, like \d for a digit, \s for white-spaces, $ as the beginning of the string and ^ for the end of it, etc.

If you have any questions regarding this tool, you can contact me directly.

Acrobat -- Save and Load Sessions

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Many applications offer the option to save your current workspace as a session and to restore it later. Let's say you're working on a project and have multiple documents open and you want to move to a different project, or just need to close the application. You save your workspace and later on you restore it and continue working from the spot you've left it off.

Unfortunately, Acrobat does not offer this functionality, until you install this script...

With this tool you can maintain an unlimited amount of sessions, which will remain even when the application is closed or the computer is restarted. The session contains all of the currently opened files, and the exact location where you left them off.

The tool adds a new "Sessions" menu under the "Window" menu:

When creating a new session, you give it a name:

And then you can load it later on:

You can also list all of the sessions currently available (and their associated files):

This tool is also compatible with Adobe Reader!

If you have any questions regarding this tool, you can contact me directly.

Acrobat -- Validate Fields Before Printing or Saving

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If you have a form that contain a set of required fields, they are only useful when the user wants to submit the form back to you. But what if you want to use the required feature of these fields when the form is printed as well? Or when the user tries to save it? Until now you couldn't, but with this script it becomes possible.

After running this script on a file, if someone tries to print it without filling in all the required fields, they will receive an error message and the form will print without any of the data in it. The same can be done when the file is saved.

For example, here's a standard form with some required fields:

When the user tries to print the form without filling in all the required fields, they receive this message:

The printed form is blank, but the data they already filled-in is not lost! They can continue editing the form, and when all the fields are filled-in properly, the form will print as usual.

If you have any questions regarding this tool, you can contact me directly.

Batch Edit Zoom Level in Bookmarks

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With this little yet powerful tool you can edit an entire folder of PDF files within seconds and set all of the zoom level settings in bookmarks actions to one of the following options:

• Inherit Zoom
• Fit Page
• Actual Size
• Fit Width
• Fit Visible

Simply select the folder, set the options you want, and click Run!

New feature: The tool can now also convert JavaScript actions to a standard "Go to a page in this document"-action.

Note: This application requires Java installed. However, you don't need to have Acrobat on your computer for it to work.

If you have any questions regarding this tool, you can contact me directly.

Acrobat -- Connect PDF to a Database

I've recently developed a set that allows you to connect your PDF to a local or networked database.
It's possible to copy highlighted text, bookmarks, form field values, etc. from your PDF directly into a database table, such as Access databases. It's even possible to access the database from your file and populate fields or create bookmarks based on data read from it. The possibilities are endless.

NEW: You can now download a working example that shows how this tool actually works.
It contains a sample database and a PDF that reads the data off of this database and uses it to populate the form fields in it. The full set of tools is, of course, able to both read and write data off the database.
You can download the sample files from here.

This is a really powerful set of tools. If you're interested in purchasing it, contact me directly.

Reader -- Display Form Data

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This script can be used to display all of the form data in the file in Adobe Reader.
The output is in plain text, which can be easily copied to another application.

If you have any questions regarding this tool, you can contact me directly.

Acrobat -- Batch Edit URL Links

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This powerful little tool allows you to edit all the links in a PDF based on a simple search and replace command, and it can be used to process an entire folder (and all of its sub-folders) in a single go.

How it looks like:

Imagine the following situation:
You have a set of PDF files which point to your website:
"Welcome" links to http://www.mysite.com/welcome.html
"Intro page" links to http://www.mysite.com/intro.html
"Next" links to http://www.mysite.com/page1.html
etc.
But then you decide to change your domain name to http://www.mynewsite.org and now you need to update all of your PDF files!

Well, this tool will do that for you. You just specify the folder to run it on, the Search & Replace action, the text to match ("mysite.com") and the text to replace it with ("mynewsite.org"), and voila! All of your files are updated in a second, and you get a detailed log of all the changes made to them.

This tool can also append text to the beginning or end of your URL links, so if you want to add a new URL parameter to the end of all of your links, you can easily do so.

This tool does not require you to actually have Acrobat. All you need is to have Java installed on your computer.

If you have any questions regarding this tool, you can contact me directly.

Batch Edit Links - Inherit Zoom

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With this little yet powerful tool you can edit an entire folder of PDF files within seconds and set all of the links with a Go To Page or Go To Remote Page-action to "Inherit Zoom".
Simply select the folder, set the options you want, and click Run!

Note: This application requires Java installed. However, you don't need to have Acrobat on your computer for it to work.

If you have any questions regarding this tool, you can contact me directly.

Acrobat -- Set Initial Layers To Current State

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This script allows you to set the current view state of the layers in the file as the default state when the file is opened.

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Acrobat -- Filter Comments By Color

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For some reason, Adobe has dropped the option to filter the comments list according to the color of the comment in version X of Acrobat. So I decided to jump to the rescue of those who depended on this feature, or just found it useful, and created a script which allows you to do it once again.
You can select the color you want to filter from a list of pre-defined colors, or just click on a comment with the color you want to use and then select the last option in the list: "Selected Comment Color". The script will then identify this color and will only present comments with the same color.

Here's how it works:
1. Select the comment color you want to see from the list

2. Now only the comments with this color are visible (even in the built-in Comments List!)

3. We remove one of the comments, and now we want to restore the comments we've hidden...

4. We're back to the original situation, with our edits in tact.

It's as simple as that...

If you have any questions regarding this tool, contact me directly.

New Scripts Location for Acrobat 10.1.1

To all of my customers (and everyone else who encounters this issue):
If you've installed scripts into the user-context folder of Acrobat X, which are:
On Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\10.0\JavaScripts

On Vista or Windows 7:

C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\10.0\JavaScripts

And then updated to Acrobat 10.1.1, these scripts will no longer work, due to a change in Acrobat's folder structure.

To resolve this issue, move the scripts to the following folder:
On Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\Privileged\10.0\JavaScripts

On Vista or Windows 7:

C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\Privileged\10.0\JavaScripts

If this folder doesn't exist, you can either create it yourself, or place the script in this folder instead:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat\JavaScripts

or

C:\Program Files(x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat\JavaScripts

(My thanks to the Acrobat Ninja for the info related to this problem)