Scripting a Comment Summary Report with option to select page ranges

[sandymadobe]

Hello everyone,

I am using Adobe Acrobat X Pro on Window 7.

I am a newbie to JavaScript but have been using the following script (actually found on this great forum!) to create a PDF Comment Summary Report.

It works great, but I would like to be able to include a line of code to select only specific page ranges (1-40) as I am working with a PDF with 700 pages and want to create a Summary Report for specific chapters. I tried inserting a code for printing specific pages, but when I used Ctrl-Enter to run the script it would just bring up the Print window.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

this.syncAnnotScan();

var a = this. getAnnots({nSortBy:ANSB_Page});

if (a) {

  var rep = new Report();

  rep.size = 1.8;

  rep.color = color.blue;

  rep.writeText("Summary of Comments for " + this.documentFileName);

  rep.color = color.black;

  rep.writeText(" ");

  rep.size = 1.2;

  rep.writeText("Total of " + a.length + " comments in this file");

  rep.writeText(" ");

  rep.writeText(" ");

  rep.indent(20);

  var msg = "\200 page %s by %s on %s";

  for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {

    rep.writeText(" ");

   rep.indent(20);

    rep.writeText(a.contents);

    rep.outdent(20);

  }

  var docReport = rep.open("commentSummary.pdf");

docReport.info.Title = "Comments Summary for " + this.documentFileName;

}

[try67]

At the start of your for-loop insert this command:

if (a.page>39) continue;

[sandymadobe]

Thanks try67, but as a newbie, can you please show me exactly where I would insert this command? Don't know for-loop from fruit-loop! LOL!

[try67]

Directly after this line:

for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {

[sandymadobe]

Hello again try67,

Inserted code where you indicated (see bolded code) and used this script via Ctrl-J/Ctrl-Enter and received the following message:

SyntaxError: syntax error

1:Console:Exec

undefined

this.syncAnnotScan();

var a = this. getAnnots({nSortBy:ANSB_Page});

if (a) {

  var rep = new Report();

  rep.size = 1.8;

  rep.color = color.blue;

  rep.writeText("Summary of Comments for " + this.documentFileName);

  rep.color = color.black;

  rep.writeText(" ");

  rep.size = 1.2;

  rep.writeText("Total of " + a.length + " comments in this file");

  rep.writeText(" ");

  rep.writeText(" ");

  rep.indent(20);

  var msg = "\200 page %s by %s on %s";

  for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {

  if (a.page>39) continue;

    rep.writeText(" ");

   rep.indent(20);

    rep.writeText(a.contents);

    rep.outdent(20);

  }

  var docReport = rep.open("commentSummary.pdf");

docReport.info.Title = "Comments Summary for " + this.documentFileName;

}

[try67]

Did you select then entire code with the mouse before executing it?

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:49 PM, sandymadobe <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

[sandymadobe]

Yes, I was selecting the entire code before executing it, however,   I just closed the PDF file and executed the script again and it worked!

Now, I am going to bug you one more time and ask what line of code I'd use to select different ranges of pages?

For example: Page 81 to 118

Thanks again..

[try67 · Accepted solution]

You'll need to add more conditions or adjust that one, for example to achieve the range you specified above (notice the page numbers in the code are zero-based):

if (a.page<80 || a.page>117) continue;

[sandymadobe]

That worked perfectly! Thank you so much!