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Hi,

I'm new to Adobe Acrobat and was hoping that I could use it to help with this task I have.

I have a folder full of quark pdf s (they're named numerically e.g. 3345678.pdf). I also have an excel file with the page sizes and colours of these pdf s.

What is the best way to compare the page size and colour of the pdfs in the folder to the page size and colour report in the excel file? Can I use apple script to automate this? Perhaps extract metadata from the pdf s?

Is there a feature that can recognize that the pdf is composed entirely of black white and grey features, or vice versa of a variety of colours, or tell between colour and black and white.

Any and all help is appreciated! :D

Thanks

J.
OS X 10.4

2008-04-10 09:08:22

lkassuba

Registered: Jun 28 2007

Posts: 3636

I think your best resource for obtaining information about content within a PDF is the Preflight tools. Through analysis with these tools you can find out page size and color information. In addition, the Preflight tools can be called through Batch Processing, which means you can run reports on multiples files without opening them. For more information on the Pre-flight tools check out Donna Baker's tutorial at:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2007/digging_into_preflight/

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

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