Why does scaling during preflight not work on all documents?

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October 16, 2024
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Hi,

I have an action wizard which scales pages for numerous pdf documents to a specified size (see action wizard below). It is able to scale most of the documents. However, for some documents, it doesn't scale them at all. I accidentally figured out that the documents that do not scale conjure up the following error when I try to "Edit PDF" from the Tools menu, which leads me to believe the problematic documents have security. Is there a work around for this? Is there something that can be done to the documents ahead of time to prep them for scaling? I need to be able to scale pages for over 50 plus documents so I cannot save a copy of each one separately and then scale.

Action Wizard:

Here are the settings for the Preflight:

Thx.

Sue

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PDF Automation Station

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That error means the document was saved as a "Reader Extended PDF". Do what the error message says and Save A Copy first.

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suemo22Author

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TY for explaining. Is there a javascript that can sort through all of the documents to see which ones were saved as "Reader Extended PDFs" and then only save a copy of those, without overwriting its respective existing documents, and use the newly saved copies for subsequent steps? If overwriting its respective existing documents is not possible, it's fine as long as it is only making copies of those documents which were saved as "Reader Extended PDFs".

Sue

PDF Automation Station

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The reason I need to know where the "Don't Save Changes" action is is b/c when I run the new copies of the documents through the rest of the action wizard steps, I get a message asking me if I want to save. I want to avoid this. Thx.

Sue

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