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Easy automatic way for user to insert custom footer on each page

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2009-09-23 05:51:15
uklogistics
Registered: Sep 18 2009
Posts: 14
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Hi

I want to be able to click a button, and for Acrobat to insert a different footer onto each page on a 5 page acrobat document.

For example

Page 1 Footer
-----------------------
Customer Copy Page 1 of 5

Page 2 Footer
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Office Copy Page 2 of 5

Page 3 Footer
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Delivery Copy Page 3 of 5

Page 4 Footer
-----------------------
OS client Copy Page 4 of 5

Page 5 Footer
-----------------------
File Copy Copy Page 5 of 5

I can do this using the Batch Sequence, however it is cumborsome for the user. Reading other posts, it appears that it not possible to create a "one touch" button to execute user-defined batch sequences.

Also, I cannot see a way to save a Batch sequence to file, so I'm guessing I would have to manually setup this batch sequence on each PC.

Can a js script be used to insert this type footer ..if so does anyone have any examples?

thanks

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2009-09-23 07:03:20
#1
try67
Expert
Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2399
Batch sequences are saved as *.sequ files which can be found at:
C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\x.0\Sequences\But if you only want to do this to one file, then there's no need for a batch sequence. A JS script can easily do this with the addWatermarkFromText function of the Document object.

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2009-09-23 09:10:33
#2
uklogistics
Registered: Sep 18 2009
Posts: 14
Thanks, I used the below, seems to work ok

this.addWatermarkFromText({
cText: "FOOTER TEXT HERE ",
nStart: 2,
nEnd: 2,
nFontSize: 8,
nTextAlign: app.constants.align.center,
nHorizAlign: app.constants.align.center,
nVertAlign: app.constants.align.bottom,
nHorizValue: 20, nVertValue: 10
});
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