Acrobat -- Create Hyperlinks from a CSV

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Similar to my earlier Add Hyperlinks to Text script, only this one can be used with a CSV file, or just a regular text file which contains key-terms and URLs.

This script will scan the entire file for these key terms and make each of them into a link to the appropriate site.

A batch version of this script is also available for processing multiple files with a single go.

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Acrobat -- Create Links from Partial URLs

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Acrobat can automatically add links to text such as http://www.google.com or www.google.com, but not to "partial" links such as "google.com"... Well, this script can do it.
It will scan an entire document and automatically detect and create links to websites based on the underlying text.

Update: This script now includes a Batch Process (or Action) that allows you to run it on multiple files. Requires Acrobat Pro.

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Illustrator -- Search and Replace Text

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This script introduces a basic feature that is missing from Illustrator. It allows you to search and replace text items in your current file, or in all open files.

You can use this tool for plain-text searches (replace "cat" with "dog") or even use Regular Expressions for your search (replace all instances of a four-digit number with another number).
The tool will process all the text frames in the file (or files) and will report how many changes it made when done.

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Acrobat -- Auto Increment a Field's Value

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If you want to make sure your file has a field which automatically increments its value on a certain action (for example when the field is opened), then this is the tool for you!

You can choose one of the following triggers for this action:

• On Document Open
• On Page Open
• On Page Close
• Before Printing the file
• After Printing the file
• After Saving the file

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Acrobat -- Mark up entire line with text

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Update: The tool can now search for any phrase, not just single words.
Also, copying the text to the highlight is now optional.

This script allows you to enter a key term, which will then be searched for in the document, and if found - the entire line will be marked up and its contents saved in the comment.
The contents can later be exported to a text, CSV, or PDF file for easy access.

This is an excellent tool for anyone who has a lot of data and is looking for a specific term (and its context) within it.

Here's an example. I searched for the term "Systems" here:



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Acrobat -- Combine Files based on their Name or Content

Using a batch sequence this script can scan an entire folder (including all sub-folders) and merge the files from it based on either their name or text (or any other criterion defined by the user) into new files. At the end a detailed report will be created.

Illustrator -- Compare 2 AI Files

This script will compare two Illustrator files and will produce a detailed report of the differences between them. It can also create a visual representation of said differences by hiding all the identical parts and revealing the different ones.

Acrobat -- Add Bookmarks Names To Pages

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This script will add (watermark) the names of all top/lowest-level bookmarks in a PDF onto the page(s) they are pointing to.

When you run the script, you can select whether to watermark just the first page, or all subsequent pages (until the next bookmark), as well as all the other settings for the watermark text, like its exact location, color, font used, etc.

New feature: You can now select whether to use the top-level bookmarks or the lowest-level bookmarks when running the script.

A free demo version of the tool, which will only process the first bookmark in the list, and does not contain the customized options below (it will add the text as a footer to each page), can now be downloaded from here.

The script will then proceed to process the entire file with the settings you selected.

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

Acrobat -- Batch Crop Pages

For some reason, Adobe removed the Crop Pages option from the Batch Processing menu of version 9... Well, now you can have it back with this script!

Acrobat -- Highlight key terms over multiple files

This is an adaptation of my "Highlight all instances of a word" script. This version can be used with a batch process to highlight a pre-defined list of terms in multiple PDF files in one go. The script also produces a log file of all instances found, including the file name and page number.

Illustrator 10 -- Extract and Import text from mutiple files

This script is an improvement to a previous one... for the moment only for Illustrator version 10, but I'm working on one for the newer Illustrator versions as well.

This script will extract text captions from an entire folder of AI or EPS files and save them to a text or CSV file (which can then be edited in Excel or just a plain text editor). The captions can later on be imported automatically back to the same location as the original text. This is a perfect tool for various translation workflows.

Acrobat -- Auto-number bookmarks

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Using this script you can auto-number the bookmarks in your PDF, based on their hierarchy.

Also includes a tool to remove these automatically added numbers.

The formatting of the numbers added can be adjusted.

Example:

Before:

After:

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

Acrobat -- Delete Comments based on their Content

Acrobat doesn't have any option for filtering comments based on their content.
This script will allow you to enter a piece of text and delete all the comments that contain this text.
It is very useful for editing purposes or DTP workflows.

Acrobat -- Split Even/Odd Pages to New Files

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This script will split a PDF into two new ones, one containing the odd-numbered pages from the source, and the other the even-numbered ones.

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Acrobat -- Extract Text Between Text Markers

With this script you can create a new PDF or Text file with the text extracted between a beginning marker and an end marker, both specified by the user.

Example:

The document above is the source, and the document below is the result of running the script with "information" as the beginning marker and "change" as the end marker.