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Javascript to replace multiple non-sequential pages

2009-04-06 09:01:42

GMT

Registered: Apr 3 2009

Posts: 6

Hello all -

I need to update a large document (3,200 pgs) by replacing 400 non-sequential pages.
The source file will be the same 1-page document.

Can the replacePages call be used without writing a separate line for each page?

Any help or guidance here will be greatly appreciated.

2009-04-06 09:22:06

try67

Registered: Oct 30 2008

Posts: 2399

Only if there's some kind of rule to which pages you need to replace...
Is it each 3rd page? Each page linked to a bookmark? Each page with a certain text? Or what?

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2009-04-06 12:05:34

GMT

Registered: Apr 3 2009

Posts: 6

There's no pattern to the pages that have to be replaced -- they're completely random.

2009-04-06 12:23:19

try67

Registered: Oct 30 2008

Posts: 2399

Then there's no way of doing it except by hard-coding each page number, i.e. writing a separate replacePages() command for each page.

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2009-04-06 12:29:56

gkaiseril

Registered: Feb 23 2006

Posts: 4308

Or you could create an array of pages to replace into and array and then process the array of pages to replace the page by element in the array.

George Kaiser

2009-10-20 12:40:03

GMT

Registered: Apr 3 2009

Posts: 6

Sorry for reviving this old thread, but was away on extended leave and am just now getting back to this.

I don’t fully understand how I would go about this using arrays. Can you provide me a simple example of what this might look like?

For example, if I have a ten page document, and I wanted to replace pages 1, 7, & 8 in the first instance, and then, 2, 5,6, & 7 in another instance.Any help would be much appreciated.