Insert Page Break Based on Condition

[sarahl74093271]

Good morning,

I am hoping to get assistance with inserting a page break based off of a condition in my PDF using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. I would like to instet a page break before every occurence of the phrase "Grading Legend". Is there a way to do this a or a way to set up an action wizard/Java Script for this? 

Thank you!

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Wouldn't that be done in the original program that created the PDF?

[sarahl74093271]

Ideally, yes. Unfortunately, I do not have access to that program as the PDF is created based off of a report I run in a database/SIS. Because of this, I can't change the programming of the report and can only try and find solutions to editing the final result in PDF. When running the report in Word, some formatting and data is lost. 

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

I think Adobe Experience Manager Designer* could do this, but I don't see it being done in a static PDF in Acrobat. (Someone will correct me if I'm wrong.)

Can you get the data ouput as tab-delimited or CSV instead of a PDF? Then you could manipulate it before making the PDF. 

'*AEM can pull data directly from a database and create flowable PDFs, but they are quite different from Acrobat PDFs.

[sarahl74093271]

I am able to run the data in CSV, but not convert it back to the necessary formatting in PDF. I will continue to research this. 

Thank you!

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

If you have complex formatting--there is another possible option...

Chekc out importing the file into InDesign using the Em Software InData plugin. 

I did a massive job with this for a couple of years, working with exported data. The InData plugin allows use of if/else statements (among other options) for applying formatting.

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To be clear, you cannot insert a page break into a PDF, not manually, not any how, so there is not going to be any JavaScript for it.