insert/delet pages in several files at once

[cornelia thurn]

Hi Forum!

I regulary have the task to insert a blank page at the end of a pdf-file and a few weeks later I then have to delet the last blank page again. This is no problem with the pdf-xchange viewer pro!

My question is now: as I have to do this always with round 60 files, I am looking for a way to do it in one step. Normally, I open all the 60 files at once and get them as tabs in the pdf-xchange viewer. Then I choose "document, delet page 2", save, close, delet page 2, save, close, and so on till all the tabs are closed and done.
Is there a way to say "delete page 2" for every tab? And vice-verca, "add blank page at the end" for every tab? This kind of batch processing would really make my life much easier! Thanks for all advices in advance!

Best regards
coko

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello coko,

You can use JS in our Viewer to speed up the process.

I tried to prepare a fully automatic script for you but it seems like there are some JS methods that we still need to fine tune.

So what you can do is:
1) Open all your documents
2) Open the JS console (Ctrl-J)
3) Inset this code there:

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docsList = app.activeDocs;
for (var i=0; i < docsList.length; i++) 
{
  var Rect = docsList[i].getPageBox("Crop");
  docsList[i].newPage(docsList[i].numPages+1, Rect[2], Rect[1]);
}

and click the green triangle to execute the script.
4) wait for all documents to get a new empty last page, and then close the Viewer - this will ask you whether you want to save the changes. It will ask for each file individually so you will need to click the "Yes" button 60 times - but this will still speed up the process.

The reverse (to delete the last empty pages) will have the script for step 3 like this:

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docsList = app.activeDocs;
for (var i=0; i < docsList.length; i++) 
{
  docsList[i].deletePages({nStart:docsList[i].numPages-1});
}

Best,
Stefan

[cornelia thurn]

Hi Stefan!

Sorry, I just read your answer today But as I just needed to do the insert-task now, I rememberd my question in this forum..

So, I had a real task to try your script and it works perfect! A great thank you to you

regards,
coko

[John - Tracker Supp]

Excellent - thanks Coko.