execute javascript with action wizard

Get ride of the "annots[i].popupRect" line. It doesn't do anything.

Try this code:

try{
var annots = this.getAnnots({ nPage:0 });
console.println(annots.length + " Annots Found");
for (var i = 0; i < annots.length; i++){
annots[i].strokeColor = color.blue;
}
}catch(e){
console.println("ERROR: " + e);
}


It includes an error check that may provide some info. Look in the console while the Action is running

hello thom thanks for your replay
I used following code for batch processing
in the console I get ERROR: TypeError: annots is null
in the batch process annotations are not accesible

try{
var annots = this.getAnnots({ nPage:0 });
console.println(annots.length + " Annots Found");
for (var i = 0; i < annots.length; i++){
annots[i].strokeColor = color.blue;
}
}catch(e){
console.println("ERROR: " + e);
}

If you read the reference entry for doc.getAnnots you'll see that it returns null when there are no annots on a page. So, the most logical conclusion is that there are no annotations on page 0 of that particular document.


Add a test to the code so that the loop only runs when annots is non null.

there annotations on the first page
I am running this code from the action wizard for the batch process
as i mentioned in the first post, if i check "promt user" option then run the code, no problem it finds annotations on each page and does the process

I'm going to do some testing later today on this to see if I can repeat the issue.

But you should try a new approach. Add an instruction step immediately before the JavaScript step in the Action. See if this has the same effect as "prompting" the user

Ok, I feel like a dunce. I already knew the answer to this one and I keep forgetting it. It's even shown in the "doc.getAnnots()" example in the AcroJS Ref.

Acrobat loads the Annotations last. But it recognizes the PDF as loaded and ready before loading the Annots. I don't know why they did this, but it means it's very easy to start a script running before the Annots are available. To mitigate this issue there is a document function that simply waits for the annots to load.

Try this code:

try{
  this.syncAnnotScan();

  var annots = this.getAnnots(0);
  for (var i = 0; i < annots.length; i++)
    annots[i].strokeColor = color.blue;
}catch(e){
   console.println("ERROR: " + e);
}


thanks a lot. it is very valuable information for me. I spent my two days I could not find the way