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Mar 12, 2025
09:47 AM
I have a lot of documents to export to png and pdf (384 documents, basically the same documents, 12 shells and 32 different sales people names). I found the script below but it's not working in Indesign 20.2, and I'm too dumb to edit it. I thought the pdf preset name was the issue, but none seem to work. In a perfect world, this script would work on all open documents (I generally open 32 at a time), but I think that's pushing it. Any help is appreciated. var doc = app.activeDocument; // PDF Export function exportPDF() { var pdfExportPath = doc.filePath.parent + "/" + doc.name.split(".")[0] + ".pdf"; doc.exportDocument({ file: new File(pdfExportPath), exportPDFOptions: { presetName:" [PDF/X-4:2008]", }, }); } // PNG Export function exportPNG() { var pngExportPath = doc.filePath.parent + "/" + doc.name.split(".")[0] + ".png"; doc.exportDocument({ file: new File(pngExportPath), exportJPEGOptions: { fileFormat:ExportFileFormat.PNG, }, }); } // Call the functions exportPDF(); exportPNG();
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Nov 06, 2023
03:40 AM
2 Upvotes
faster to click on left side page thumbnails and just use the scroll bar there. THIS "UPDATE" IS COURTESY OF THE SAME IDIOT PROGRAMMER THAT SWITCHED THE SHIFT KEY CONSTRAIN IN PHOTOSHOP. Another needless revision by people that DON'T have to actually use the software to make a living.
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Sep 18, 2023
05:47 AM
Thanks - looks like I was fixated on "EDIT PAGE TITLE" versus "EDIT PAGE URL". I'm an idiot. (
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Sep 12, 2023
11:57 AM
I have an Adobe Portfolio site, and I'm lost in figuring out how its generating the URL... when you go to my site and click on OOH, the URL changes the end to "/logo-design" - the page is called OOH, I've been thru all submenus and everything seems to say "OOH" (out of home), but its still populates as /logo-design. Taking a guess - it's left over from the day I first started the site in probably 2017, even though a "logo design" no longer exists (see screenshot from setting data). "Logo design" is grayed out. Should I delete the home page and start a new one? Thanks in advance.
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Aug 30, 2023
08:56 AM
THANKS AGAIN! (I did upvote)... question. It works perfectly in Acrobat, but not within Outlook online (regular signture works, but not digital). I assume its a matter of Microsoft only creating a very basic preview of a pdf. Do you know of any work arounds? I tried googling this but not finding an exact solution.
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Aug 25, 2023
02:27 AM
2 Upvotes
I've created a client agreement for a company, and they want the signature area to be either a digital signature or a typed one - I can create either easily - but I've never done an either/or in the same field. Is this even possible with acrobat? Thanks (and I did a few searches here and googled, maybe I'm not posing the question correctly).... so: Scenario: A rep clicks in the signature field and they have the opportunity to use thier saved - digital signature or just type thier name.
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Mar 27, 2023
01:36 PM
I should add, that all the pages were scanned to 8.5x11, and when you change the page sizing the images detect the original image size and crop to that.
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Mar 27, 2023
11:32 AM
I've tried and failed many times to crop a scanned pdf document, and then reset page size (5.5"x8.5) with all page elements (re)centered within page space. I've tried cropping (with and without remove white space), editing via page boxes, crop (down) and crop again (back up in size) - no luck. Any tips? BTW: its over 140 pages and just over 1.3gb so I'd rather not center each manually if possible. Thanks in advance.
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Mar 17, 2023
08:57 AM
1 Upvote
Thanks! Saved my buttocks.
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Mar 16, 2023
02:11 PM
For those that do forms all the time, I'm sure this is super simple. I have a small window to create/design 26 fillable pdf spec sheets, and all need to be able to do the following: Customer enters an option code in Category 1, then Category 2, the Category 3, and the data popluates into a order # in a field below with a "–" seperating each code. I've done this before but it was 8 or 9 years ago and I've barely slept since then I tried to cobble the Java together but it does nothing. Help is seriously appreciated. Sorry if I have the wording wrong, I only do forms once a decade... (if there was book on pdf form creation I'd buy it).
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Dec 23, 2022
07:07 AM
Go old school. Place a box on top of the photo filled with white (or another color or even a gradient) and use transparency/blending mode to allow the photo to show thru in an edited way. You'll be surprised how much control you'll have. Using effects/svg can be a bit unpredictable if you are heading to print.
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Dec 08, 2022
08:03 AM
Nope. I did a long session with support and they refused to provide anything older than 26. I explained my situation but they held firm. The claim the older versions "no longer exist". I've requested a phone call with a senior tech.
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Dec 08, 2022
07:55 AM
You can't go back, they aren't available for download. If you have a link to 25.4.7 download please share it here.
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Mar 24, 2022
10:26 AM
1 Upvote
This is actually the correct answer, if the duration is under 12 no matter how many times you modify Project Settings, cmd clickm etc, you'll never ever ever get back to seconds. Mr Gerards constant comments of "read the UI, there is lots of helpful blah blah.." is not helping. If you can't answer a question directly, don't waste time posting.
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Apr 22, 2021
06:09 AM
This glitch has just caused me to lose 5 hours of work after drawing a complicated floorplan and then finding out the client wants EXACT dimensions based on inside stroke measurement - and this after cutting up the all the open paths for door openings. No way to re-align the stroke. Darn.
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Dec 17, 2020
09:10 AM
thanks I'l check it in a few hours Im on ad design mode hard to switch at this age )
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Dec 17, 2020
03:21 AM
One only per submission, that way the salesperson can return a quote on one at a time. If a client checks three lots they'll get three emails back. Client choice. It's 5:21am and I'm again trying to figure out how to make this work. (
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Dec 16, 2020
02:10 PM
Thank you, that wouldn't populate the URL in a place different than the button would it? Client was wanting a two-click process - first on LOT they like, second lower on page on WEB icon. While waiting for a response I've been trying an alternative, but even this simple form won't work. I'm about ready to punch myself. This pdf form is killing me (I'm a designer, not a coder). This pdf is a TEST. I have a popup of LOT 1 (fine), the weblink button works (fine), the email form doesn't (dang). I can't even get the buttons to be invisible or just appear on layer 2. I was smarter 5 years ago, by far. I have $19 in paypal if someone wants coffee money. I just need one working pdf that I can copy and paste script from. I'm exhausted https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/b857624a-6d22-4efe-4569-1f8b3ca414ad
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Dec 16, 2020
12:34 PM
Here is my challenge (by a client).. they want an pdf form they can email to prospective buyers that contains just place to click to launch a URL sample floorplan for whatever lot the client chooses (from several). If someone selects LOT1 for example, the url for the web icon below would become active for www.lot1.com, but if they select LOT4 then www.lot4.com would become active... all the urls would have be stacked on top of one another... How do I make 'LOT1" URL the only active one when LOT1 box is checked? The client does NOT want the URL link to be on each property, just in ONE spot on the pdf (that would have been easy). I can do the pop-up image in layers and submit for quote as a data form email, this has stumped me ( Thanks in advance.
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Aug 07, 2020
10:07 AM
Thanks. Going to start on tutorials today. I wish Adobe would make a WYSWYG version of Illustrator then I'd be an instant web master )
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Aug 06, 2020
02:47 PM
After decades telling clients I don't/won't do html (I'm Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign).. I have to do html. Today I downloaded Dreamweaver and opened a template a client provided. No problem changing out images, adding header, changing text (just started dumming it in)... but when I get the cursor blink just beyond the last text in the paragraph and add an IMG - the whole layout shifts.
I know seasoned pros are probably hating this thread already, and even beginners are laughing. I get it. I only got this request 75 minutes ago so no time to watch tutorials yet (weekends for that), car business is hurry hurry hurry, and once I gety one done it will be "now do these other 25".
How can I force the layout back to two columns so I can insert the logo you see on the right example (or do I need to create it's own block)? The logo should be floating just below the text block. Thanks in advance.
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Jan 02, 2020
01:36 PM
Nope, no help. Manually downloaded the newest Acrobat build and no luck. Its worse than I thought - if it's 10.05am (for example) and at 10.19am I save over an exisiting PDF the modified date as seen by Mac OS X is still at 10.05am. Quitting multiple times does not help. It can be 24 hours later and a save over does not update the pdf.
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Dec 23, 2019
12:02 PM
(Mac oS X high Sierra, Pro DC Build: 19.21.20058.359605) This started happening with last Acrobat Pro DC update - while working ongoing on an ai or indd file and saving a pdf to my desktop, the pdf does NOT update. In other words, if I make a change to the ai or indd file and save over the pdf Acrobat will not update the file. Even if I delete the pdf and save a pdf to the desktop with same file name the change will not take effect. Quitting Acrobat and reopening does not help. I have to change the pdf file name in order for the change to take effect. Below is three tests from one file, saved pdf, save over, and quit and resave. The right side is the pdfs and they do not update. No amount of quitting or deleting older pdfs is fixing this one. I appreciate any help but please do not suggest the following: 1) quitting acrobat and reopening (doesn't work) 2) changing file names constantly (file names have to follow a set guideline per my employer) 3) deleting and reinstalling Acrobat DC (did that, no help) 4) not saving pdfs until I a job is 100% approved (if you suggest this you don't work in a fast, revision laden environment) Thanks
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Oct 24, 2019
06:07 AM
Without looking up anything I was able to create a ball that bounces in, rotates (on one axis) slows to a roll and comes to a stop. I'll jump into Adobe Tutorials today and follow your guidelines. The texture map was impossible to figure out just by fooling around, so I need to backup and learn this right. I've been doing animated gifs in photoshop and illustrator for 10 years so I have to clear my brain from flip-page style animation to this.
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Oct 23, 2019
01:09 PM
Up until an hour ago I had never used After Effects. A client has asked me to use AE to create a giphy of a golf ball bouncing in and rolling into hole. No problem getting ball with logo (from an .ai file) to bounce in, and roll to a stop. Getting it to drop into a hole I assume requires a green screen in the background, then a layer with a black hole, then the ball, and then in foreground shape that acts as a "curtain" for the ball to drop behind. I could animate this easily in PSD or AI, but AE has been requested. No matter how many searches I do I only find videos on how to DELETE a video green background, not create one. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Plus, I have to be AE proficient by feb 2020 so suggestions for tutorials and/or books also helpful.
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Sep 12, 2019
08:02 AM
Since acrobat can't create a button that is transparent, and I have an active form that says: CIRCLE LAST GRADE COMPLETED, I have an idea that might work I need help with. Instead of a button, how about a text field with the letter "O" in it that has an action to indicate it was selected? The line of text looks like this: Grade school: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 College: 1 2 3 4 Post Graduate: 1 2 3 4 My plan is to put a text field with an O over each number, then have a script that will change the color if someone clicks on it. Is this possible? If not I'll just convert each number to a __ X, just hate to, client is "challenging" and wants it exactly the same way it's been for 24 years.
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Aug 14, 2019
10:31 AM
I've asked, but the guy is older and can't really tell me much. He says he opens the file in acrobat and ADS TEXT. Obviously he's not typing it like what I get it out of it, so acrobat is saving the text internally in some strange way?
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Aug 14, 2019
08:57 AM
I have a client that sends me pdfs with edited text, which I want to copy and paste into new documents, but the text is massively duplicated In an example today, the client sent back a pdf with three lines of text, when I copy and paste I get this: 1/4” thick x high 8’ 1/4” thick x high 8’ 1/4” thick x high 8’ 1/4” thick x high 8’ 1/4” thick x high 8’ 1/4” thick x high 8’ 1/4” thick x high 8’ 1/4” thick x high 8’ 1/4” thick x high 8’ 1/4” thick x high 8’ 1/4” thick x high 8’ 1/4” thick x high 8’ 1/4” thick x high 8’ 1/4” thick x high 8’ -0” long 0” long 0” long 0” long (2 (2 (2 lb 12 oz)12 oz)12 oz)12 oz)12 oz) 1/4” thick x 3” long toe 1/4” thick x 3” long toe 1/4” thick x 3” long toe 1/4” thick x 3” long toe 1/4” thick x 3” long toe 1/4” thick x 3” long toe 1/4” thick x 3” long toe 1/4” thick x 3” long toe 1/4” thick x 3” long toe 1/4” thick x 3” long toe 1/4” thick x 3” long toe 1/4” thick x 3” long toe Grooved back with vertical semi Grooved back with vertical semi Grooved back with vertical semiGrooved back with vertical semi Grooved back with vertical semiGrooved back with vertical semiGrooved back with vertical semi Grooved back with vertical semiGrooved back with vertical semiGrooved back with vertical semi Grooved back with vertical semiGrooved back with vertical semiGrooved back with vertical semiGrooved back with vertical semi Grooved back with vertical semiGrooved back with vertical semi Grooved back with vertical semi Grooved back with vertical semi -circular ventscircular vents circular ventscircular ventscircular vents circular ventscircular vents circular ventscircular Instead of: 1/4” thick x 4” high x 8’-0” long (2 lb12 oz) 1/4” thick x 3” long toe Grooved back with vertical semi-circular vents Mac os x 10.13, Acrobat Pro DC. I've tried resaving the pdf to older versions, no luck. It's adding 30 minutes of work every day (
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May 30, 2019
05:58 AM
5 Upvotes
I'm battling a few clients in the realm of saving files (web banners) and how best to do so. So I'm looking for the ULTIMATE GUIDE to doing this.. i.e. tips and tricks to make ads, especially smaller ads, look their best. For the most part I build the ads in Illustrator, export for screens at 4x the actual size, and then use Photoshop to optimize/reduce the ads to actual size. These ads are combination of photoshop elements (like a background or a vehicle image) and Illustrator type/elements. The reason I can't just save an .ai based ad at actual size is it does a poor job of balancing type/images in the export - photoshop does a better job by far (IMO). I've tried to convince all my clients to accept ads at 4x actual size and reduce it down to fit, but I have a few that just can't wrap their head around it. If I give them a 300x250 ad at 1200x1000 and they reduce it down it looks better than if I had given them the same ad at 100% of actual (less fogging and artifacts)... maybe it's just me but there is some logic to this... or am I wrong? I constantly have the same clients ask me to resend the same jpeg ad at a "higher resolution" because the tiny ad I sent was blurry (like a 300x50) - it's driving me nuts. This thread might be the most useful ever if the pros can jump in here and post some usable tips, guidelines, tricks, etc. I have tried building ads in photoshop and indesign but the final results are the same. Am I just doing this wrong? sample: <a href="https://imgbb.com/"><img src="https://i.ibb.co/dtZVRSS/small-ad-sample.jpg" alt="small-ad-sample" border="0"></a>
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Apr 25, 2019
06:07 AM
I've designed well over 30,000 tshirt designs since 1989 in illustrator, and I have to say that all the above answers are not "wrong", but also may not be correct depending on how you work and how you do separations. There are plenty of autotraced distress / grunge files out there for free, and you can even do your own with a bit of work between photoshop and illustrator (find a texture/photo, open in psd, pull the contrast up to the points of a near posterize level, save and autotrace in illustrator). I generally mix more than distress vector to make a more realistic cracking effect. The easiest: find some of the grunge and/or distress ai files on the web, color them white and place them over your design. This works if you want the entire design distressed. If you are just wanting parts of it distressed you'll have to position the distress into the correct above/below order (or layers, even though I do complicated illustrations without every touching making more layers). Sometimes you'll need to make the distress texture a compound path and subtract it from the portion of the artwork you are modifying, which can get tricky if the texture has too many small points. I still do separations from illustrator/distiller, but I am in the minority... its a lost skill. I still do 3-8 designs a day, all in a super hurry (approx 15-20 minutes each), so I usually keep it simple and just paste a distress over the design. The less easy: you can do your work in illustrator and move it to psd and go insane with layers of texture effecting the artwork in a variety of ways. This means you HAVE to use something like accurip for seps. For example you could draw a basketball with wings and place the texture of an eagle over it in psd, screen it thru layers, and make seps. All depends on your time frame. If you have hours per design you can do almost anything. If I had a DTG I would. Lastly, if you have clients wanting mockups on real shirt images, you'll need to eye drop the shirt color into the texture, but it rarely works well since the shirt color is not consistent. I give my clients mockups on vector shirt mockups.
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