I was too breezily optimistic in saying of what is possible using Actions based on my reading of Sahlin's book. I'm still not *absolutely* sure this is impossible, but if it is possible the solution is not as obvious as I had assumed. (I've taken another look at the book at my local B&N, and the tie between the Ch. 14 "Batch Process..." and Ch. 9 "Review PDF Documents" is not made in the way I recollected. There is a discussion of PDF optimization via batch that allows choosing which versions of Reader will be allowed to open the output file, but that is not with comments enabled.)
However, maybe there is a simpler solution. Doesn't just saving a FM file as a PDF using File>SaveAs Review PDF>Enable Commenting in Reader accomplish what is wanted? If saved that way to begin with, there is no need to batch the resulting PDFs. Someone more familiar with Extendscript than I might also comment on the feasibility of using that to operate on a series of FM files in a folder to accomplish this SaveAs function. I promise (once again!) to restrain myself in future. Irrepressibly, Craig From: Rick Quatro [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 8:47 PM To: 'Craig Ede'; jaloren at gmail.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Batch PDF processing for enabling commenting in acrobat reader Hi Craig, As far as I can tell, there is no way to enable Reader rights via JavaScript or Acrobat Actions. If you know of a specific way, please let us know. Thanks. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 rick at frameexpert.com http://www.frameexpert.com From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Craig Ede Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:48 PM To: jaloren at gmail.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Batch PDF processing for enabling commenting in acrobat reader There is scripting functionality in Acrobat X that allows this. Check out the docs that came with your software. You can also find out how to do such scripting in: How to do everything. Adobe Acrobat X by Doug Sahlin (available at my local library) It all done in the Action Wizard section of the Tools tab on the top right side of the Acrobat X interface. Such actions can be done on open files, folders or a selection of files. A number of prefab actions are there, but you can modify them or make your own. Fiddling around in there for a couple of minutes should get you a usable script. Good Luck, Craig Ede _____ Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:53:54 -0600 Subject: Batch PDF processing for enabling commenting in acrobat reader From: [email protected] To: framers at lists.frameusers.com; TCS-Users at googlegroups.com Hi all, I have TCS 3.5. I am using FrameMaker 10 and Adobe Acrobat Pro X. When I publish my documentation, I would like people to review the PDFs by putting comments in acrobat reader. To do this, I have to go into each PDF and select File > Save As > Reader Extended PDF > Enable Commenting and Measuring. Is there any way to turn this into a batch process that will automatically convert all the PDFs in a single folder? Thanks, Joseph Lorenzini -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20111221/ebea898e/attachment.html>
