Select and delete watermarks as Xform elements SOLVED

[masster]

Thank you for the informative reply on the Advanced Search topic.
Now, since you are very knowledgeable, I would like to pick your brain about another issue.

I have hundreds of PDF files that are watermarked with a specific Xform container—not text or image, but an Xform container. Kind of like a stamp but not quite. Call it a group of text, images, and paths.
The watermark is almost on every page and its position varies.
Question: is it possible to "teach" PDF Editor EXACTLY what Xform element I would like to search for in a selected folder and its subfolders? The idea is that I would like PDF Editor to find them, allow me to select them all, and magically delete them then save the result in a new folder. We are talking about advanced batch actions. In my opinion, batch actions are the meat of any advanced PDF editor because users need to save time when otherwise tedious jobs are at hand.

I will squeeze into this topic a new feature I would like to suggest. It is about batch-deleting pages with a twist.
It would be very useful to have the possibility to delete the first N pages or the last N pages.
Regards

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello masster,

I am afraid that the XForm objects are a type of structure, but there is no way for the editor to uniquely identify and distinguish one such Xform from another, or to automate their removal (especially when they are at different locations on your pages).

Using PDF Tools you should be able to batch process multiple files, and if your stamps were e.g. at the same place on each page, you could have automated their removal, but if they can be anywhere - then there is no real solution I can think of.

Deleting the first or last N pages can be done with JS, and you can then also run the JS through PDF Tools, so that bit is possible to implement:
https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxt10/ru ... ipt_t.html

Kind regards,
Stefan

[rakunavi]

Hello masster,

I will squeeze into this topic a new feature I would like to suggest. It is about batch-deleting pages with a twist.
It would be very useful to have the possibility to delete the first N pages or the last N pages.

What you want to do should be possible by specifying a custom page range of "1-N" for the first N pages or "^N-^1" for the last N pages in the Delete Pages dialog, which is supported by both PDF-XChange Editor and PDF-Tools.

• Product Manuals » PDF-XChange Editor V10 » Appendix » Page Range Settings
  https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxe10/in ... gs_ed.html
• Product Manuals » PDF-Tools V10 » Appendix » Page Range Options
  https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxt10/in ... ons_t.html

Best regards,
rakunavi

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello rakunavi,

Thanks!
A long time ago those options were not available, so I believe my first attempts to achieve the task would have been with JS, so I've never learned of the feature in the UI and would have done it with JS if I needed to automate such a task!
Thanks for showing me something new (for me) today.

Kind regards,
Stefan

[rakunavi]

Hello Stefan, thank you for your comment.

This has probably been supported since build 362. The developers are wonderful in these casual but certainly useful improvements.

• PDF-XChange Editor Version History - Build 9.4.362.0
  NEW Added a feature to specify last N pages of a document without using absolute numbers.

Best regards,
rakunavi

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

[masster]

Thank you for the solutions. Nevertheless, a regular user would prefer to see those two supplementary options for deleting multiple pages in multiple documents added to existing ones.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello masster,

For batch processing you need to use PDF Tools.
The option to delete the N pages from the start or end of a document are there.

The Editor can not batch process multiple files and that is on purpose as it is aimed more at a single file (except when you are e.g. merging several files into one), and not on batch operations.

Kind regards,
Stefan