Need to change font color

[tpk1982]

Hi All,

I am beginner of acrobat scripting.

My requirement is, i need to find font size more than 12 and change color to black. Not sure how to start my coding.

Please help.

Regards,

K

[try67]

Are you talking about text in a form field or a comment, or in the actual static contents of the file? If the latter then it's not possible to do that using a script.

[tpk1982]

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Yes it's for my static text in PDF. It have 124 pages, i manually changing colors now

Can we use any action to achieve this?

[try67]

Not that I know of.

[Patrick-59]

YES!
Text in the form field of a government form (ironically they require black ink) is blue but I need the form field text/font to be black.

Your help is very much appreciated.

[try67]

Do you have Acrobat? If so, try going to Form Edit mode and then right-click the field, select Properties and you'll be able to change the text color under the Appearance tab.

[Karl Heinz Kremer · Accepted solution]

As was already explained, you don't have access to text colors from within a JavaScript, there are also no actions you can apply. The only way to accomplish this is via the plug-in API. You can create your own plug-in, but I would advice against that because there are plug-ins available that perform this type of modifications. One that I am aware of is the Enfocus PitStop Pro preflight tool (unfortunately, this feature is not built into Acrobat's own Preflight tool). You can create a PitStop preflight profile that changes the color of text of a certain font size. PitStop is not cheap, but it's definitely cheaper than building your own tool.

[tpk1982]

Thanks Karl Heinz Kremer

Sure i will try this with Pitstop, also is it possible to give overprint for text if text size is bigger than 24 and black is the applied color?

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

You might be able to do that. It's been a while since I've used PitStop for that. They have a evaluation version, so you should be able to determine that before you pay for the solution.

[abailescollins]

You can do that in PitStop, if you get stuck drop me a mail. andrewb@enfocus.com

I'm the PitStop Product Manager.

[tpk1982]

Thanks abailescollins, I contacted Enfocus already and got answer from Jeff Phillips, Enfocus Product Specialist

[Test Screen Name]

I advise against changing the design of a government form in any way. If they have designed a field in blue, that is their problem. That assumes the government supplied it, and you return a filled in PDF. Any edits may cause your form to be rejected.