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REQ shortcut for 'Document Processing'

erique
Registered: Dec 14 2009
Posts: 2

For the life of me I can't understand why Adobe has chosen to (1) not make available keyboard shortcuts for any of the Document Processing menu items and (2) why they cannot be added to the Tool Bar.

I frequently have to use the Number Pages function and am getting quite fed up with the menu navigation hassle each time.

Does anyone know of a faster way than to move the mouse up, down and across all the time? Is there a script perhaps, or an undocumented way to add a button?

Grateful for any ideas!

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.2, Macintosh
thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
Acrobat does provide a way to create custom toolbar buttons through the JavaScript API. Here are some articles that will help you out with this.

This article shows the code for creating a toolbar button:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2007/10/apply_security_with_js

This article talks about folder level script files, which is what you'll need to do this:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/folder_level_scripts

Here's an article on executing menu items from JavaScript:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2008/06/executing_menu_items_from_javascript

Here's an article on using a tool called AcroButtons (written by me) to create toolbar buttons that run menu items:
http://www.windjack.com/resources/howto/WJHowTo_MenuButton.html

And here's a web page with free Acrobat Automation tools. All of which use custom toolbar buttons, one of which you'll find very useful for this task:
http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/65.cfm

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

The Acrobat JavaScript Reference, Use it Early and Often
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.html]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.html[/url]

Then most important JavaScript Development tool in Acrobat
[url=http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/34.cfm#JSIntro][b]The Console Window (Video tutorial)[/b][/url]
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/javascript_console][b]The Console Window(article)[/b][/url]

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
www.pdfscripting.com
Very Important - How to Debug Your Script