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_MGadAllah_
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August 18, 2023
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What is the starting point to learn & develop scripts that are working with .PDF files

  • August 18, 2023
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Hi,

Editing and cleaning. PDF files and make ready for printing are eating and consuming my life.

Please, I read that there is a scripting language or technique that can be used using the Ctrl+J shortcut through the console.

I do not know if I am saying anything wrong, apologized.

So What is the starting point for learning & develop scripts that are working with PDF files?

What do I need to learn?

What is this programming language?

Is it a wizard technique or something I write by hand manually from scratch?

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    Correct answer Bernd Alheit

    You can start here:

    https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/javascript_console/index.html 

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    try67
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    try67Community Expert
    Community Expert
    August 19, 2023

    Most editing tasks can't be done with a script. Maybe let us know what it is you're trying to automate, exactly, so we could tell you if it's at all possible, before you sink a lot of time and effort into learning Acrobat JS...

      _MGadAllah_
      _MGadAllah_Author
      Known Participant
      August 24, 2023

      I am sorry for the late reply.

      I want to do one or all of the following:

      1. remove all margins from any pages.
      2. ident the header and footer of the page to the middle, so after I remove margins in 1st step most headers and footers are being cut off because of eliminating the margins.
      3. The final step always will be to use the preflight to set the page size to a prespecified size and I put it to 197 & 210 as this is the A4 size, because when I choose the regular preflight resize to A4, I found the result page is not rescaled to full page as desired.

      These are the main things I want to do most of the time

       

      Thanks,Mohamed GadAllah
      Bernd Alheit
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      Bernd AlheitCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      August 18, 2023

      You can start here:

      https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/javascript_console/index.html 

        _MGadAllah_
        _MGadAllah_Author
        Known Participant
        August 19, 2023

        Thank you 😊

        Thanks,Mohamed GadAllah
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