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Need to remove a PDX index reference from PDFs

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2008-10-15 12:12:07
paule123
Registered: Oct 15 2008
Posts: 13

I have a batch of PDF documents that were authored for CDROM. I need to remove the PDX index file reference from them all. They will be transferred individually to PDAs without the associated PDX and I don't want the user to see the warning message about the PDX file not found.

If there's a way to do it within Acrobat Pro 8, a third party tool, or brute force such as a hex editor, please let me know.

I've messed around a bit trying to remove the following tags that I located within the PDF document but with unpredictable results (i.e., corrupt PDFs, PDFs that view but not save)

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Thanks.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0, Windows
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2008-10-15 18:29:40
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daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
fwiw: Have you tried File > Properties > select "Advanced" tab > click on "Clear" button for the "Search Index" entry in the PDF(s) that have an associated PDX file?Be well...

Be well...

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2008-10-15 18:55:59
#2
paule123
Registered: Oct 15 2008
Posts: 13
daka630, just tried that and it works great, except I need to batch process 160 files like this ...
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2008-10-17 14:14:11
#3
paule123
Registered: Oct 15 2008
Posts: 13
As a kludge solution to this, I used Acrobat 8 Pro's batch processing facility to Print the PDFs to the "Adobe PDF" printer. This has my desired effect of removing the PDX index reference from the PDF (as well as bookmarks).
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2008-10-17 18:39:42
#4
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Hi,
Meant to get back to you sooner...
Yes, running the PDFs through Distiller will re-fry 'em nicely.
I'd looked over the batch sequences, but as suspected, I found nothing there to "pull out" an attached PDX. Looked through the preflight checks and fixes.
Nothing jumped out at me.

So, I guess its either do each PDF manually or re-fry 'em through Distiller .Be well...

Be well...

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2008-10-18 01:50:38
#5
rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
if you needed to clear pdx from 1000's of files, I'd write a script to do it.
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2008-10-18 06:38:00
#6
paule123
Registered: Oct 15 2008
Posts: 13
rbogie wrote:
if you needed to clear pdx from 1000's of files, I'd write a script to do it.
What would you use to write the script with? Javascript inside Acrobat or something? :confused:
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2008-10-18 09:26:29
#7
rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
If you had 1000s of files, I'd automate the process with a tool for my own use. Since you have just 160 files to do, I'd recommend that you take daka's tip and manually get the job done.
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2008-10-18 10:20:43
#8
paule123
Registered: Oct 15 2008
Posts: 13
rbogie wrote:
If you had 1000s of files, I'd automate the process with a tool for my own use. Since you have just 160 files to do, I'd recommend that you take daka's tip and manually get the job done.
What programming tools/APIs would you use to automate this process?

(BTW the job is done, as I outlined above in an earlier post ... I "reprinted" the PDFs to the Adobe PDF printer ... )
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2008-10-18 19:46:16
#9
rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
get yourself a keyboard macro tool
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