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msubsltd
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May 2, 2023
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Sort PDFs by Page Dimensions

  • May 2, 2023
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Hi,

I have a few thousand engineering drawings in PDF format and I'm looking for a method of sorting these according to page dimensions. I have A4, A3 and A2 drawing sizes, and I want to process these with a selection of Actions to modify certain parts of each drawing.

 

I've got Acrobat Pro, and I've got as far as using Preflight to check an individual document - what I need is a batch process method to chew through the whole collection.

 

Any help would be much appreciated!

 

Thanks,

Paul

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Correct answer JR Boulay

It is easy to do this with a Preflight profile used in an Action.
The advantage is that preflight profiles allow you to define a tolerance, as page dimensions are never exact.

That's how I usually sort between 6 sizes: A4, A3 and US Letter, in portrait and landscape.

 

 

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JR Boulay
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JR BoulayCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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May 3, 2023

It is easy to do this with a Preflight profile used in an Action.
The advantage is that preflight profiles allow you to define a tolerance, as page dimensions are never exact.

That's how I usually sort between 6 sizes: A4, A3 and US Letter, in portrait and landscape.

 

 

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msubsltdAuthor
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May 9, 2023

JR, try67 - apologies for not replaying sooner, got distracted by another thing.

 

Many thanks for your help, I know have a working solution.

 

Cheers,

Paul

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    Дмитрий378534457ytb
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    June 5, 2024

    Hi!

    Could you tell what solution do you have fot sort PDF drawings. I  have the same problem

     

    Thanks!

    try67
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    try67Community Expert
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    May 2, 2023

    This is not as trivial as it might seem. Some of the issues involved with this:

    - A PDF file can contain pages of multiple sizes.

    - A page in a PDF file has multiple boxes in it (Crop, Trim, Bleed, Art, Media and BBox), and each one could have different dimensions (slightly or not) from the others.

    - A script in Acrobat can't move files, only save a copy under a new folder.

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    msubsltdAuthor
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    May 3, 2023

    Hi,

     

    Each PDF drawing has one or more sheets, but they will all be the same size, there's no mixing of page sizes in any file.

    Saving a new copy to folder depending on page size would be fine.

     

    Thanks,

    Paul

    try67
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    try67Community Expert
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    May 3, 2023

    Then you can use something like this, as a part of an Action, and run it on your files.

    Adjust the folder paths as needed, of course, but keep the same syntax I used:

     

    var pageBox = this.getPageBox("Crop", 0);
var pageWidth = ((pageBox[2]-pageBox[0])/72).toFixed(2);
var pageHeight = ((pageBox[1]-pageBox[3])/72).toFixed(2);

if (pageWidth==8.3 && pageHeight==11.7) {
	this.saveAs("/C/SortedPDFs/A4/" + this.documentFileName);
} else if (pageWidth==11.7 && pageHeight==16.5) {
	this.saveAs("/C/SortedPDFs/A3/" + this.documentFileName);
} else if (pageWidth==16.5 && pageHeight==23.4) {
	this.saveAs("/C/SortedPDFs/A2/" + this.documentFileName);
}
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