Change default number of pages when splitting document

[John30449622h2hu]

*posting again because someone kept wrongfully marking a "correct answer" last time

I have contacted support and they have told me it is not currently possible but maybe the community knows of a workaround. When splitting documents the default number of pages to split into is 2. I always need to change this to a 1 and the number does not get saved in between uses. This can become tedious and slow me down when I have to split around  ahundred documents a day. I have already submitted a fix for this as a suggestion so I am hoping that works out.

When I looked into it it seemed like the 2018 version had the same issue and it was fixed 4 years ago but they did maintain that fix for the newest version which I had installed a couple weeks ago. Hopefully this gets resolved as it would make my job much easier. 

If anyone knows any kind of creative workaround for this please let me know. Thanks

[try67 · Accepted solution]

I don't believe so, but a custom-made script can be used to achieve the same result. It can also skip this dialog entirely and just split each page as a new file automatically.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Create a Custom Command (or an Action) and have it execute this code:

for (var p=0; p<this.numPages; p++) {
	this.extractPages(p, p, this.path.replace(/\.pdf$/i, "_part " + (p+1) + ".pdf"));
}

[try67 · Accepted solution]

I don't believe so, but a custom-made script can be used to achieve the same result. It can also skip this dialog entirely and just split each page as a new file automatically.

[John30449622h2hu]

I'm not really an expert on it, could you shed some light on how exactly I would go about that? Thanks for the response

[try67]

Sure, but you need to better explain your ultimate goal. Do you just want to split each page as its own file?

What should these new files be named, and where should they be saved?

[John30449622h2hu]

Yes I want to split each page of a larger PDF into its own single page PDF and just have them saved to the same folder as the original file. FOr naming I am fine with just part 1 , part 2, etc. just like when actually using the split function

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Create a Custom Command (or an Action) and have it execute this code:

for (var p=0; p<this.numPages; p++) {
	this.extractPages(p, p, this.path.replace(/\.pdf$/i, "_part " + (p+1) + ".pdf"));
}

[John30449622h2hu]

So I just went to add this and Acrobat told me that I could not add an action on the new version... but I can revert to an old version from the menu. Very quick fix and now my split defaults to 1. I also added this action and it works perfectly which might save me even more time so thank you. You are awesome

[tammibeck · Accepted solution]

Same issue!  Please restore the option to change the default back to 1 page splits!!