How can I make a single new .PDF out of many .PDF's 1st pages with javascript?

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Good Forum Folk,

I wish to create a new .PDF composed of all the first pages of a large number of other .PDF's. My preferred approach would be to create an Action with the "Default option:" of "Add folder..." as its first step. At present I have the following javascript as my second step:

this.print(false,0,0,true); [which sends p. 1 of the selected .PDF as a print job to the last-used printer]
this.closeDoc(true); [which closes the selected document]

I would like to improve the script so that it only prompts to begin the process once (instead of for each .PDF included in the batch).

I look forward to your suggestions.

QD

Thom Parker · Answer

One strategy is to create a PDF from first page of the first document processed, using the "doc.extractPages" function. Do not close this doc or extract it with a path. Instead, place the document object returned from extract pages into a global variable. Then for every document after that insert a page into the document.

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