By Lori Kassuba April 01, 2015
Delete all the existing comments in your PDF file and then save a copy.
By Lori Kassuba April 01, 2015
This guided Action converts a folder of PDF files into individual PNG images.
By Lori Kassuba April 01, 2015
This guided Action converts a folder of PDF files into editable PowerPoint files.
By Daniel Steiger March 30, 2015
This guided Action allows you delete all the odd or even pages in your PDF file.
By Marvin Hartmann February 27, 2015
This action allows you to automatically remove all hidden information in one or multiple documents such as comments and markups, bookmarks, metadata, without prompting to do anything.
This action allows you to automatically remove all the following hidden information in your documents:
- Metadata
- File attachments
- Bookmarks
- Embedded search index
- Comments and markups
- Form fields
- Hidden text
- Hidden layers
- Deleted or cropped content
- Links, actions and javascripts
- Overlapping Objects
This action has two steps.The first step is to remove all the information above, and the second step will save the document, keeping the original file name. When you remove any of these items, you also remove digital signatures, Adobe Reader extensions, review and forms workflows, and document information added by third-party applications. If you need the original file, be sure to say a copy first!
By Marcus Radzuweit October 17, 2014
This Action exports a LiveCycle Designer template from XFA form.
By Lori Kassuba September 03, 2014
This Action is designed to set the initial opening view on a folder of PDF files. By default, the magnification is set to fit the page and display bookmarks.
By Jean-Renaud Boulay June 06, 2014
Use this Action to remove the tooltips from all your form fields in a PDF form (Acrobat XI or later version).
Acrobat XI automatically detects form fields, but it also creates yellow tooltips that display when you roll-over each field. These tooltips are made from the field name and are often not really relevant, which is confusing for end users.This Action will automatically remove these tooltips from all your form fields.
By Lori Kassuba March 25, 2014
This 3-step guided Action searches for words or phrases in a PDF file, highlights the words using the highlight annotation, and then extracts each page containing a highlight annotation.
This 3-step guided Action searches for words or phrases in a PDF file (using the redaction command), highlights the words using the highlight annotation, and then extracts each page containing a highlight annotation.
No actual redaction takes places during this process.
This is a combined version of Rick Borstein’s Find and Highlight Words Action and Extract Commented Pages Action.
By Mark Moraal February 06, 2014
This Action automatically removes the first page of a PDF document from multiple files.
This Action automatically removes the first page from multiple PDF files. You can choose to open several files or folders at once.***The action will automatically save and overwrite your existing PDF document, so make a backup copy of your files first. You can edit this Action and change the Save step to Save As to avoid overwriting the original PDF files.
By Karan Chauhan February 01, 2014
This Action will help to remove standards settings for PDF/A, X, and E from any PDF file.
By Karan Chauhan January 20, 2014
Convert multiple PDF files into PostScript (PS) files in one step.
By Rick Borstein November 25, 2013
This is an updated version of the Document Numbering Action that allows you to stamp two separate numbering items at the same time.
This is an updated version of the Document Numbering Action for Acrobat XI. It allows you to stamp two separate numbering items at the same time — the document number and the page number.
Detailed instructions are available here.
By Rick Borstein November 25, 2013
This is an updated version of the Create Comment Summary Action that creates a report of comments across multiple PDF documents.
The Create Comment Summary Action processes multiple PDF documents and outputs for Acrobat XI:
• A Summary Document which reports on the files which were processed
• An attached Comma Separate Values (CSV) file listing all comments, by page, by document. This file may be opened in a spreadsheet program.
Detailed instruction are available here.
By Rick Borstein November 25, 2013
This guided Action stamps a PDF file with the filename, renames the file, and saves to a folder.
This guided Action stamps a PDF file with the filename, renames the file, and saves to a folder. It automates the process of stamping by doing the following:
• File Name
• File Name + Date
• Document Title
• User-entered text
Detailed instructions are available here.
By Rick Borstein November 25, 2013
This guided Action allows you to easily find out which documents contain comments.
This Action processes multiple files and detects whether documents have comments or not. Document with comments are copied to a folder of your choosing. Optionally, you may copy documents without comments to a different folder. The Action also creates a Summary Report that lists the processed files.
Detailed instructions are available here.
By Rick Borstein November 25, 2013
This guided Action processes multiple PDF files and extracts pages the individual pages that contain comments.
This is an updated version of the Extract Commented Pages Action for Acrobat XI. It processes multiple PDF files and extracts pages in two ways— to a subset of files from the original document and to a summary document containing all pages extracted from source documents. Detailed instructions are available here.
By Rick Borstein November 25, 2013
This guided Action creates a summary report of all the bookmarks within a PDF file.
This is an updated version of Rick Borstein’s Acrobat X Action that processes multiple PDF documents and creates a report of all the bookmarks. Reports can be created in one of two formats:
• A unified report, by document, listing bookmarks in a hierarchical fashion.
• A Comma Separated Value (CSV) file, which may be opened in a spreadsheet program such as Excel.
By Bohemian Life November 14, 2013
This guided Action inserts a blank or dummy page between each page of a PDF file.
By JR Boulay October 01, 2013
This guided Action will embed a PDF file into an FDF (Forms Data Format) file to force opening in Adobe Reader or Acrobat and then saving the file.
This Action will embed a PDF file into an FDF (Forms Data Format) file to force the file to open in Adobe Reader or Acrobat. This is very useful if you are developing PDF forms that will be filled out on the Mac. Sometimes Mac users will attempt to fill out PDF forms in Mac Preview instead of Adobe Reader or Acrobat, which can generate form field entry errors (i.e., form field data is not visible). Adobe Reader and Acrobat are the only apps that can open FDF files, so embedding a PDF into a FDF file ensures that it cannot be opened using another PDF reader or in another PDF editor.
- This Action will prompt you to select a PDF file that will be saved as a FDF.
- After opening the FDF the end user will not be prompted to save the PDF, the embedded PDF will be saved in a temporary folder and deleted when they quit the application.
By JR Boulay October 01, 2013
This guided Action will embed a PDF file into an FDF (Forms Data Format) file to force opening in Adobe Reader or Acrobat.
This Action will embed a PDF file into an FDF (Forms Data Format) file to force the file to open in Adobe Reader or Acrobat. This is very useful if you are developing PDF forms that will be filled out on the Mac. Sometimes Mac users will attempt to fill out PDF forms in Mac Preview instead of Adobe Reader or Acrobat, which can generate form field entry errors (i.e., form field data is not visible). Adobe Reader and Acrobat are the only apps that can open FDF files, so embedding a PDF into a FDF file ensures that it cannot be opened using another PDF reader or in another PDF editor.
- This Action will prompt you to select a PDF file that will be saved as a FDF.
- After opening the FDF the end user will be prompted to save the PDF, then the FDF should be deleted automatically.
By Lori Kassuba September 12, 2013
This guided Action converts a folder of PDF files into individual JPEG images.
By Lori Kassuba August 01, 2013
This guided Action flattens all content in form fields and comments in a PDF file so that they are no longer editable.
By Lori Kassuba June 25, 2013
This guided Action automates highlighting important words across multiple documents to quickly spot key information.
By Lori Kassuba June 19, 2013
This guided Action performs the steps necessary to optimize a PDF file for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
By Joel Geraci June 11, 2013
This Action performs search engine optimization (SEO) on a PDF file for use on the web.
By Lori Kassuba April 12, 2013
This guided Action restricts editing and copying of content within a PDF document.
This guided Action restricts editing and copying of content within a PDF document. It is setup to process a folder of files of any type that Acrobat Pro. can open (i.e., PDF, Word, Excel, etc.).
In the resulting PDF file (which is titled filename_secure.pdf), the only changes allowed are commenting, filling in form fields, and signing existing signature fields.
The Action can be modified to suit your particular application.
By Dean Longley April 05, 2013
This guided Action converts multiple PDF files into MS Word documents.
This guided Action converts multiple PDF files into MS Word documents.This Action does the following:
Defaults the file name of the Word document to the original PDF name and saves in a .docx word format.
Defaults to selecting whole folder for converting but possible to select additional sources for conversion.
Defaults saving Word document to the same folder as the PDF but the save location can be altered.
By Karl Heinz Kremer March 13, 2013
This guided Action changes all the form fields in a PDF file from "Visible, but does not print" to "Visible" so they all print.
The guided Action will iterate over all form fields in a PDF file and look for ones that are configured as “Visible, but does not print” and change them to “Visible”, which means that they will print.
The modified file is saved with “_modified” appended to the original file name (e.g. test.pdf will be saved as test_modified.pdf).
By Louis Knebel February 01, 2013
This guided Action separates the first 2 pages from batch file of doubled sided forms scanned to PDF.
This guided Action is used to streamline the the review process of daily inspections. The double-sided paper inspection forms are scanned at the end of each day using an e-file on an MFP. The reviewer retrieves the daily batch of inspections from the e-file server. After optimizing the batch the reviewer uses this Action to extract the first two pages.
By Raphaël de Courville December 27, 2012
This Action reverses the order of pages in a PDF file from 1..2..3..4 to 4..3..2..1.
By JR Boulay December 08, 2012
This Action creates a detailed report of all form fields in a PDF document.
By Aaron Krigelski August 28, 2012
This guided Action enters the filename of a PDF into the title field of the PDF document properties.
By Rick Borstein April 24, 2012
This Action prints the first page of many PDF files to your default printer.
By Sean Mitchell April 22, 2012
This Action prompts the user for an email address and then sends the PDF to your email client with the filename included in the subject line.
In Acrobat 9, you could attach an email to your email client with the file name included in the subject line. But in Acrobat X this doesn’t work any longer as the format has changed.
Until now…
This Action prompts the user for an email address and then sends the PDF to your email client with the file name included in the subject line. It attaches your PDF to the email client much quicker than the Share button does. There is also some custom text in the script that you can easily modify.
By Lori Kassuba April 02, 2012
This Action inserts a blank page when the page count is an odd number of pages.
By Lori Kassuba January 30, 2012
This guided Action embeds fonts that are currently not embedded into the PDF file.
If a PDF uses fonts which are not embedded into the PDF file they are embedded using this Action. It is required that the respective fonts are present in the system’s font folders. Some fonts may have a flag indicating that their license does not allow embedding. In this case the fonts are not embedded into the PDF.
By Rick Borstein July 25, 2011
This Action locks the Bates Number in PDF files to prevent edits.
By Grady Glover July 12, 2011
This Action adds bottom up bates labels to your document.
By Denise Yancey July 12, 2011
This Action adds "Exhibit" and "Page X of Y" as a footer for legal documents.
For legal documents - adds “Exhibit” and “Page X of Y” as a footer, in the same place on each page at the bottom right of the documents you select. Excellent when you have to mark piles of PDF documents, sequentially by pages.
Would prefer to have the Action allow dynamic entry of alpha (Exhibit “A”, Exhibit “B” etc.) instead of 3-digit auto Bates Numbers - do not have capability to change the code.
By Grady Glover July 08, 2011
Reverses the order of pages in your PDF.
By Rick Borstein May 23, 2011
This Action removes PDF/A information stored in metadata allowing PDF files to be edited.
Acrobat’s PDF/A View mode appears when you open a PDF/A document which prevents you for editing a document. If you need to edit a document, you should remove the PDF/A information to do so. For example, you might create a PDF/A document from Microsoft Word then insert some scanned pages.
By Rick Borstein April 25, 2011
This Action alternates page numbers and places a small stamp marked "Confidential" on the first page.
By JR Boulay March 07, 2011
This Action removes tooltips from all form fields in a PDF form.
You asked Acrobat to automatically detect form fields and now your newly made form is full of nice hundreds fields.
Well, but… on roll-over each of these hundreds fields display a yellow Tooltip, made from the field name and often not very relevant, so it may be confusing for end users.
⇒ This action remove all tooltips from all form fields in a PDF
By Rick Borstein February 28, 2011
This Action opens a window prom[ting the user for an email address. The open PDF document is then emailed using the default email application on Windows only.
This Action opens a window asking the user for an email address. The front PDF document is then emailed using the default email application including a default subject line and body message on Windows only. You will want to make two very simple edits to this JavaScript Action to make it work for you. Click the Action Options button to edit the cMessage (body of message) and cSubject (Subject line) of the email. This Action can easily be combined with other Action steps. Just add them before this one.
By Rick Borstein February 28, 2011
This Action is used to alert the user when an Action has been completed. The computer will beep and a machine voice will say "Acrobat Action has been completed."
This Action is used to alert the user when an Action has been completed. The computer will beep and a machine voice will say “Acrobat Action has been completed.” You can add your other built-in Actions before this one to add a cool way to alert the user that the Actions has completed.
By Rick Borstein February 25, 2011
This Action reverses the order of pages in a PDF document.
By Rick Borstein February 24, 2011
This custom JavaScript Action adds a series of navigation buttons to a PDF file including Previous Page, Next Page, First Page and Back.
Buttons are a useful way to add navigation to a PDF, however they are tedious to add manually. This Action adds a series of small navigation buttons to the upper left of a PDF document. Buttons are added for Previous Page, Next Page, First Page and Back. Button navigation can be particularly helpful if the PDF is presented in full screen view.
By Annamarie Lukes February 03, 2011
This Action applies password security to a file or a folder of PDF files.
By Silvia Lifman February 01, 2011
This Action has two steps, first it recognizes and create forms fields from an imported PDF file. Second, it prevents changes to the file but still allows the user to complete the form and print.
This Action applies Form Field Recognition to almost any PDF file, such as a form created in InDesign.
It then applies document security, to prevent modification of the form fields, but still allows a user to complete the form and print.
Note: Before you use the Action, be sure to edit and change the security password so you can control editing.
By Lori Kassuba January 27, 2011
This Action adds bookmarks to the currently-open document. The bookmarks link to a selection of other PDF files in another folder.
By Tom Carson January 17, 2011
This Action adds tags to a PDF document and sets the language to English.
By Jan Hillmer January 11, 2011
This Action colorizes the top-level bookmarks in a PDF file.
In Acrobat, you can nest a list of bookmarks to show a relationship between topics. Nesting creates a parent/child relationship. Bookmarks are generated automatically during PDF creation from the table-of-contents entries of documents created by most desktop publishing programs. This Action will colorize the top-level bookmarks in red so they are more easily visible. Manually this process can take hours for documents with many bookmarks, like a digital catalog.
By Lori DeFurio December 02, 2010
This Action optimizes PDF documents for distribution outside of internal teams.
By Rick Borstein December 01, 2010
This Action creates a report of all bookmarks in a PDF document.
The Acrobat X Create Bookmark Report Action processes multiple PDF documents and outputs a Summary Document containing:
• A unified report, by document, listing bookmarks in a hiearchical fashion.
• A Comma Separated Value (CSV) file which may be opened in a spreadsheet program such as Excel.
By Rick Borstein November 30, 2010
This Action flattens the content in form fields and comments so that they are no longer editable.
By Rick Borstein November 30, 2010
This Action automatically stamps the filename on PDF documents, renames the file, and saves to a folder.
By Rick Borstein November 30, 2010
This Action extracts pages containing comments from multiple PDF files.
By Rick Borstein November 30, 2010
This Action easily determines which PDF files contain comments.
The Acrobat X Sort Commented Files Action processes multiple files and detects whether documents have comments or not. Document with comments are copied to a folder of your choosing. Optionally, you may copy documents without comments to a different folder.
The Action also creates a Summary Report which lists the processed files.
By Rick Borstein November 30, 2010
This Action automates numbering of related documents.
By Rick Borstein November 30, 2010
This Action creates a report of all comments within multiple PDF documents.
The Acrobat X Create Comment Summary Action processes multiple PDF documents and outputs:
• A Summary Document that reports on the files which were processed.
• An attached Comma Separated Value (CSV) file listing all comments, by page, by document. This file may be opened in a spreadsheet program such as Excel.
By Rick Borstein November 30, 2010
This Action automates highlighting important words across multiple PDF documents to quickly spot key information.