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Cannot repeat a drawing object

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
June 25, 2024
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In Adobe Acrobat Pro, why can't you repeat a drawing object across multiple pages? E.g. a rectangle to hide watermarks or photocopy lines. You can repeat a button across multiple pages but not a drawing object. Unfortuantely you can't get rid of the button's name so buttons can't be used for this purpose to hide/mask things in the same place on multiple pages. Adobe, please add that repeat functionality to drawing objects!

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I had the same issue, so I developed a (paid-for) tool that does it. You can find it here:

http://try67.blogspot.com/2009/07/acrobat-duplicate-annotations-to.html

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Try the redaction tool in Acrobat Pro.

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You could use a simple script to place an annot (square for this example) on each page:

var numPages = this.numPages;

for (var i = 0; i < numPages; i++) {
var annot = this.addAnnot({
page: i,
type: "Square",
rect: [0, 0, 100, 100],
strokeColor: color.red,
});
}