Acrbat Pro DC Action Wizard Folders to be Processed How to limit action to only .PDF?

Question

In this case, I want to find .pdf's in many folders and save/convert them to .EPS files that remain in the folder with the original .PDF. This does work.

When creating the action, I can select the Folder hierarchy as desired, and all the pdf's are found and .EPS files are created as desired.

The problem is this: If there are other file types in that folder, such as .PNG, .PS, .EPS, etc., it also converts those files as well, first to a .pdf then to the .eps.

How can I filter the files to ONLY do the .PDF extensions?

try67 · Accepted Answer

This used to be possible, but isn't any longer, unfortunately. You'll need to manually remove all non-PDFs before running the Action if you don't want them converted.

defaultynr7aaq39kzh · Answer

My solution for my purposes was to image the source directory to another temporary one, but in the copy prompt only process *.pdf files

On windows I used XCOPY -

XCOPY "C:\utils\*.pdf" "D:\Backup\utilspdfs" /s /i

I then processed that folder with action wizard, then copy pasted back into original folder.

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