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In this case, I want to find .pdf's in many folders and save/convert them to .EPS files that remain in the folder with the original .PDF. This does work.
When creating the action, I can select the Folder hierarchy as desired, and all the pdf's are found and .EPS files are created as desired.
The problem is this: If there are other file types in that folder, such as .PNG, .PS, .EPS, etc., it also converts those files as well, first to a .pdf then to the .eps.
How can I filter the files to ONLY do the .PDF extensions?
This used to be possible, but isn't any longer, unfortunately. You'll need to manually remove all non-PDFs before running the Action if you don't want them converted.
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This used to be possible, but isn't any longer, unfortunately. You'll need to manually remove all non-PDFs before running the Action if you don't want them converted.
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Thank you. Since I have over 50,000 files nested in nearly that same number of individual folders, that is not a practical solution for me. I will now need to try to source a third-party solution.
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@smontoney, did you ever find a solution? I'm looking for the exact same thing. Thank you!
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There's no solution to this within Acrobat. If you want to only process PDF files you have to only select them, or remove all non-PDFs from the selected folder(s). This can be done using a simple file search application: Search for all files in the folder (and all sub-folders), sort by type, select all but the PDF files and delete.
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My solution for my purposes was to image the source directory to another temporary one, but in the copy prompt only process *.pdf files
On windows I used XCOPY -
XCOPY "C:\utils\*.pdf" "D:\Backup\utilspdfs" /s /i
I then processed that folder with action wizard, then copy pasted back into original folder.