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Sorry if this has been addressed, but couldn't find anything in search.
Acrobat DC downloaded yeaterday.
I created an action that is performed on all files in a folder.
Even if no file is open when I run this action, the last file to be proccessed is left open.
I am not seeing a way to close though a menu item, and do not know enough about JS to write it correctly.
Tried adding this as a final step - this.closeDoc(true) - but that closes Acrobat, and when I reopen it gives a message about it closing 'abruptly'.
Any help is appreciated!
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It's a bug in Acrobat DC. We've reported it from day one (and even before that), and yet it hasn't been fixed so far...
You have to close that file manually when the Action completes.
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Damn, and here I thoguht I was going to be happy getting away from all the bugs in AcrobatX...
So is there not a simple little bit of JS I could execute at the end to close it?
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No. The one you found is it, and as you saw, it causes issues.
And Acrobat X, with all of its issues, was miles better (IMO) than Acrobat DC, at least when it comes to Actions. More robust (files were processed in the background), could be set to process only PDF files, etc.
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Actually, there is one more way of closing a file, but I doubt the results will be any different.
Try running this code:
app.execMenuItem("Close");
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It sort of worked, got this message.
I hit enter and it closes the file and looks like it finished?
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Actually that was for one file, I just tried a few files and it only proccesses the first file?
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Well, yeah, you're closing the files abruptly in the middle of the process, so it stops it... You need to find some way of knowing which file is the last one, so you'd only close that one. Unless you know that file's name or the total number of files that are being processed, I don't see how this will work, or be any better than manually closing the last file when the Action is done.
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OK, thanks for your time!