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Change Icon of sticky note based on Content

  • September 1, 2017
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I'm looking for an easy solution to better manage the appearance of my sticky notes. In a previous post, I was able to get help changing sticky note color based on content. It works great!

I am now looking for a way to change sticky note icon based on content. Currently, all my sticky notes are the "Text Note" icon (because that's how they are exported from InDesign). But I'd like to be able to easily and globally change the Text Note icon to any of the other icons.

It would be even more amazing if the script could also delete the text associated with the color.

For example. If the sticky note content starts with "Help:" the Text Note icon would change to the Help icon, and then also delete "Help:" from the beginning of the sticky note contents.

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Correct answer try67

This code will do that. You can expand it to process more icons and texts, of course.

this.syncAnnotScan();
var annots = this.getAnnots();
if (annots!=null) {
    for (var i in annots) {
        var annot = annots;
        if (annot.type=="Text") {
            if (/^Help:/.test(annot.contents)) {
                annot.contents = annot.contents.replace(/^Help:/, "");
                annot.noteIcon = "Help";
            }
        }
    }
}

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Joel Geraci
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January 18, 2018

One thing to be aware of. The icons named Comment, Key, Note, Help, NewParagraph, Paragraph, and Insert are the only ones provided by the viewer if no appearance is supplied in the annotation. In other PDF viewers, they may not look exactly like the icons provided by Acrobat and Reader.

Document Geek
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January 18, 2018

What is "viewer"?The software serving to display the PDF? Or the person viewing the PDF? I don't understand.

This goes for all PDF viewers?

Regardless, the icons only need to be seen in Acrobat. I I don't care how they look in Preview, Bluebeam, Goodreader, etc.

Joel Geraci
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Joel GeraciCommunity Expert
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January 18, 2018

Ok - If it's only Acrobat and Reader, you're good.

JR Boulay
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January 18, 2018

Document Geek made a nice presentation of Acrobat's Comment tools yesterday.

Everyone should see the recording: Tech Wednesday Acrobat

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe
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    January 18, 2018

    I am still trying to get the script to work successfully with all the icons. Is there any part of the script that is redundant and doesn't need to be duplicated?

    this.syncAnnotScan();  
    var annots = this.getAnnots();  
    if (annots!=null) {  
        for (var i in annots) {  
            var annot = annots;  
            if (annot.type=="Text") {  
                if (/^Help:/.test(annot.contents)) {  
                    annot.contents = annot.contents.replace(/^Help:/, "");  
                    annot.noteIcon = "Help";  
                }  
            }  
        }  
    }  
    this.syncAnnotScan(); 
    var annots = this.getAnnots();  
    if (annots!=null) {  
        for (var i in annots) {  
            var annot = annots;  
            if (annot.type=="Text") {  
                if (/^Star:/.test(annot.contents)) {  
                    annot.contents = annot.contents.replace(/^Star:/, "");  
                    annot.noteIcon = "Star";  
                }  
            }  
        }  
    } 
    try67
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    January 18, 2018

    Yes, almost all of the second part is redundant. Use this:

    this.syncAnnotScan();   
    var annots = this.getAnnots();   
    if (annots!=null) {   
        for (var i in annots) {   
            var annot = annots;   
            if (annot.type=="Text") {   
                if (/^Help:/.test(annot.contents)) {   
                    annot.contents = annot.contents.replace(/^Help:/, "");   
                    annot.noteIcon = "Help";   
                }
                else if (/^Star:/.test(annot.contents)) {   
                    annot.contents = annot.contents.replace(/^Star:/, "");   
                    annot.noteIcon = "Star";   
                }           
            }   
        }   
    }  
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    September 1, 2017

    This code will do that. You can expand it to process more icons and texts, of course.

    this.syncAnnotScan();
    var annots = this.getAnnots();
    if (annots!=null) {
        for (var i in annots) {
            var annot = annots;
            if (annot.type=="Text") {
                if (/^Help:/.test(annot.contents)) {
                    annot.contents = annot.contents.replace(/^Help:/, "");
                    annot.noteIcon = "Help";
                }
            }
        }
    }
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    September 1, 2017

    That's amazing! Thank you so much!

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    September 12, 2017

    On a related question: I am trying to combine the Change sticky note color based on content script with this one. I have exported a bunch of sticky notes as an FDF file, but I can't figure out where in the code the color is referenced.

    Which part of this references color?

    <</C[0.639221 0.188232 0.525497]/Contents(Purple: 7)/CreationDate(D:20170912144332-04'00')/F 28/M(D:20170912145013-04'00')/NM(4e8a7e30-c615-ff43-86da-19659fa1a871)/Name/Comment/Page 4/Popup 15 0 R/RC(<?xml version="1.0"?><body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xfa="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/" xfa:APIVersion="Acrobat:17.12.0" xfa:spec="2.0.2" ><p dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr" style="font-size:13.2pt;text-align:left;color:#000000;font-\
    weight:normal;font-style:normal">Purple: 7</span></p></body>)/Rect[52.7047 328.113 70.7047 346.113]/Subtype/Text/T(kellyvaughn)/Type/Annot>>
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