Hi. I am on Acrobat XI Pro 11.0.23 - it's what our office uses. Have Win10 and Win7 machines and we get the following issue. What we wanted is to achieve a way to:
1. Make a button to Close All Open PDF docs. Found a way here - https://www.pdfscripting.com/public/Free_Acrobat_Automation_Tools.cfm
2. I then modified the code so instead of close it performs a Save on all open docs. This I achieved with the code I posted here (user ''So What''😞
https://answers.acrobatusers.com/ViewQuestion.aspx?questionId=293479
Several years ago both of these approaches worked flawlessly on a Win7 machine but now on new machines and installs it doesn't. This is how the JavaScrip-based button(s) from the above links look like:
The problem now on is that when I hit either the Close All or Save All button, Acrobat throws a prompt - 'An internal error occurred' like this one:
I already tried a plethora of Google suggested solutions having to do with folder permissions and so on. No luck. If anyone has another way of achieving the Save/Close all open PDFs or a way to fix the issue I'm experiencing with my way then pls help. I'll post the code here just in case, but as I said it once worked flawlessly on Win7. Why now it stopped on 7 and 10 I don't know.
Code for SaveAllDocsMenuItem.js :
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Save All PDFs Menu Item for Acrobat/Reader
//
// Written by Thom Parker for www.acrobatusers.com
//
// Copyright 2011 by WindJack Solutions, Inc.
//
//////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// ** GENERAL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
//
// This Acrobat Automation Script will only work when
// placed in one of the Acrobat JavaScript Folders. Execute
// the following code from the Acrobat JavaScript Console to find
// the location of the JavaScript folders.
//
// To display the Acrobat JavaScript Console use Ctrl+J on
// Windows and Command+J on the Mac, does not work properly on newer Mac Books
//
// app.getPath("user","javascript");
//
// app.getPath("app","javascript");
//
// You may place this script file in either one of the folders.
// However, the "user" folder is shared by both Acrobat and Reader
// Placing the file in the user folder will make the menu item
// availible to both Acrobat and Reader
//
///////
// Business logic for closing documents
//
var DoCloseAllDocs = app.trustedFunction(function()
{
app.beginPriv();
var len = app.activeDocs.length;
for (var i=len-1; i>=0; i--) {
app.activeDocs[i].saveAs(app.activeDocs[i].path);
}
app.endPriv();
});
///////
// User Interface, places menu item on File menu
//
app.addMenuItem({cName:"Save All PD&Fs",
cParent:"File",
nPos:"Close",
cExec:"DoCloseAllDocs()",
cEnable:"event.rc = app.doc != null"
});
/////////////////////////
//
// Variations on the main script. To use, replace the cExec
// script in the "addMenuItem" fucntion to use the
// given trusted fucntion.
var DoCloseAllDocs_NoSave = app.trustedFunction(function()
{
app.beginPriv();
var len = app.activeDocs.length;
for (var i=len-1; i>=0; i--) {
app.activeDocs[i].saveAs(app.activeDocs[i].path);
}
app.endPriv();
});
// This variation will not work for documents in Reader
// that do not have save rights, but it fails in a well
// behaved manor
var DoCloseAndSaveAllDocs = app.trustedFunction(function()
{
app.beginPriv();
var len = app.activeDocs.length;
for(var i=len-1;i>=0;i--)
{
oDoc = app.activeDocs[i];
try{
oDoc.saveAs(oDoc.path);
}catch(e){}
oDoc.closeDoc(false);
}
app.endPriv();
});
Code for CloseAllDocsMenuItem.js :
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Close All PDFs Menu Item for Acrobat/Reader
//
// Written by Thom Parker for www.acrobatusers.com
//
// Copyright 2011 by WindJack Solutions, Inc.
//
//////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// ** GENERAL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
//
// This Acrobat Automation Script will only work when
// placed in one of the Acrobat JavaScript Folders. Execute
// the following code from the Acrobat JavaScript Console to find
// the location of the JavaScript folders.
//
// To display the Acrobat JavaScript Console use Ctrl+J on
// Windows and Command+J on the Mac, does not work properly on newer Mac Books
//
// app.getPath("user","javascript");
//
// app.getPath("app","javascript");
//
// You may place this script file in either one of the folders.
// However, the "user" folder is shared by both Acrobat and Reader
// Placing the file in the user folder will make the menu item
// availible to both Acrobat and Reader
//
///////
// Business logic for closing documents
//
var DoCloseAllDocs = app.trustedFunction(function()
{
app.beginPriv();
var len = app.activeDocs.length;
for(var i=len-1;i>=0;i--)
app.activeDocs[i].closeDoc(false);
app.endPriv();
});
///////
// User Interface, places menu item on File menu
//
app.addMenuItem({cName:"Close All PD&Fs",
cParent:"File",
nPos:"Close",
cExec:"DoCloseAllDocs()",
cEnable:"event.rc = app.doc != null"
});
/////////////////////////
//
// Variations on the main script. To use, replace the cExec
// script in the "addMenuItem" fucntion to use the
// given trusted fucntion.
var DoCloseAllDocs_NoSave = app.trustedFunction(function()
{
app.beginPriv();
var len = app.activeDocs.length;
for(var i=len-1;i>=0;i--)
app.activeDocs[i].closeDoc(true);
app.endPriv();
});
// This variation will not work for documents in Reader
// that do not have save rights, but it fails in a well
// behaved manor
var DoCloseAndSaveAllDocs = app.trustedFunction(function()
{
app.beginPriv();
var len = app.activeDocs.length;
for(var i=len-1;i>=0;i--)
{
oDoc = app.activeDocs[i];
try{
oDoc.saveAs(oDoc.path);
}catch(e){}
oDoc.closeDoc(false);
}
app.endPriv();
});
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So from what I saw and learnt in this thread @Thom_Parker could not be bothered to give basic instructions as to what to do - i.e. give data and give instructions as to what to do with these data. He prolly figured everyone is an IT pro. Well, we ain't. We're mere paying customers. Nevermind, thanks Thom for at least trying. Next time realise that not everyone is in your field of coding or programming and instead of getting angry at ppl try to help them out 🙂 No hard feelings here. One thing fo
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Same result on Win10x64 - 'undefined' when I paste the both codes (separate and together) in Ctrl+J console window and hit Ctrl+Enter to run it. Am I doing this wrong?
I have reasons to think that it has to do with folder permissions because I'm not the admin on my work machine. When I'm copying the JS files to C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 11.0\Acrobat\Javascripts I get this prompt
I hit Continue and it copies the files but still won't work. I did google the issue with folder permissions and checked under C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 11.0\Acrobat\Javascripts - properties/security/advanced/owner - changed to my user instead of the office admin. The 2 *.js files CloseAll and SaveAll - I did the same with them so I'm the owner. Still doesn't run and gives the same error - An internal error occurred.
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