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May 26, 2016
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Need to change font color

  • May 26, 2016
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Hi All,

I am beginner of acrobat scripting.

My requirement is, i need to find font size more than 12 and change color to black. Not sure how to start my coding.

Please help.

Regards,

K

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Correct answer Karl Heinz Kremer

As was already explained, you don't have access to text colors from within a JavaScript, there are also no actions you can apply. The only way to accomplish this is via the plug-in API. You can create your own plug-in, but I would advice against that because there are plug-ins available that perform this type of modifications. One that I am aware of is the Enfocus PitStop Pro preflight tool (unfortunately, this feature is not built into Acrobat's own Preflight tool). You can create a PitStop preflight profile that changes the color of text of a certain font size. PitStop is not cheap, but it's definitely cheaper than building your own tool.

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Karl Heinz Kremer
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Karl Heinz KremerCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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May 26, 2016

As was already explained, you don't have access to text colors from within a JavaScript, there are also no actions you can apply. The only way to accomplish this is via the plug-in API. You can create your own plug-in, but I would advice against that because there are plug-ins available that perform this type of modifications. One that I am aware of is the Enfocus PitStop Pro preflight tool (unfortunately, this feature is not built into Acrobat's own Preflight tool). You can create a PitStop preflight profile that changes the color of text of a certain font size. PitStop is not cheap, but it's definitely cheaper than building your own tool.

    tpk1982
    tpk1982Author
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    May 26, 2016

    Thanks Karl Heinz Kremer

    Sure i will try this with Pitstop, also is it possible to give overprint for text if text size is bigger than 24 and black is the applied color?

    Karl Heinz Kremer
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    Karl Heinz KremerCommunity Expert
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    May 26, 2016

    You might be able to do that. It's been a while since I've used PitStop for that. They have a evaluation version, so you should be able to determine that before you pay for the solution.

    try67
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    try67Community Expert
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    May 26, 2016

    Are you talking about text in a form field or a comment, or in the actual static contents of the file? If the latter then it's not possible to do that using a script.

      tpk1982
      tpk1982Author
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      May 26, 2016

      Thanks for your prompt reply.

      Yes it's for my static text in PDF. It have 124 pages, i manually changing colors now

      Can we use any action to achieve this?

      try67
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      try67Community Expert
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      May 26, 2016

      Not that I know of.

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