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Batch distillation with Acrobat 9

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2010-09-14 08:54:35
co97134
Registered: Sep 13 2010
Posts: 2
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I've handreads of office files to distillate one shot and run a scheduled task everyday to do the same operation. I've found the AutoBatch plug-in that allows me to prepare a batch command to be executed everyday. In the command list does not appear Convert or distillate but print, extract, fast web view, etc..
In the PDF output files I need to keep active table of content links and active hyperlinks.
Could you help me to modify this batch command to do that ?

SET AUTOBATCHSEQU=C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat\Sequences\ENU\Fast Web View.sequ

SET AUTOBATCHFINAL=1

SET AUTOBATCHDEST=D:\Documents and Settings\ta08010\Desktop\MU-SF Converted 4

SET AUTOBATCHALTPATH=%1

SET AUTOBATCHNOPROGRESS=yes

"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe" /n /h

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.0, Windows
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2010-09-14 10:18:16
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
Why not use the 'Watched Folders' of Acrobat Distiller. You could then set up a windows scheduled task to run Acrobat Distiller once a day.

Of course the above only applies to PostScript file types.

Could provide more details about the types of files you are trying to convert.

George Kaiser

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2010-09-20 01:55:49
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co97134
Registered: Sep 13 2010
Posts: 2
When I say Office documents I mean .doc, .xls, .ppt files. So your solution cannot be applied.
I've solved using a black in the command list. In this way Acrobat just execute the conversion.
To keep a synchro between a source and destination folder I need to develop a script who calls the batch conversion routine.

Thanks
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2010-09-20 07:12:03
#3
gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
Acrobat has very few command line switches, so you can not use Windows event scheduler to perform this task and can not trigger a batch process in Acrobat with an MS-DOS batch file. You might find a 3rd party plugin or stand alone program to perform the task.

George Kaiser

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