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Yuliascript
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September 20, 2017
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How to get acrobat page count from Indd CS6 with js

  • September 20, 2017
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Hi,

I need to get count of pages in the acrobat file that will be placed into Indd. How can I get this data:

var myFile = File (myFilePath);
pdfPageCount = myFile.pageCount();

Could not find anything in OMV.

Thank you for your help.

Yulia

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Correct answer Jongware

You probably didn't find anything because nobody calls a PDF an "acrobat file". Here is a long thread from 2008 on, discussing various methods: How can I get a total page count of a PDF before placing every page in the PDF?

There is not one single 'best' method, though. In a worst case scenario, you must not only parse an entire object tree (which may include addenda), but for modern PDFs you may need to implement a deflate algorithm in JavaScript.

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Loic.Aigon
Loic.Aigon
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September 21, 2017

Search through the forum, there was some snippet exposed which seemed to do the job.

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    YuliascriptAuthor
    Inspiring
    September 21, 2017

    I did search through the forum, do you have a little bit more info about where to find that snippet?

    Jongware
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    JongwareCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    September 22, 2017

    You probably didn't find anything because nobody calls a PDF an "acrobat file". Here is a long thread from 2008 on, discussing various methods: How can I get a total page count of a PDF before placing every page in the PDF?

    There is not one single 'best' method, though. In a worst case scenario, you must not only parse an entire object tree (which may include addenda), but for modern PDFs you may need to implement a deflate algorithm in JavaScript.

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