Author Archives: Karl Heinz Kremer

Document Level Scripts With Acrobat Standard

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

If you are using Adobe Acrobat Standard, you’ve probably noticed that you cannot add document level scripts to PDF documents. This is a limitation of the user interface, Acrobat Standard can actually add such scripts (and document actions), but it … Continue reading →

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Where are my Adobe Acrobat 9 Updates???

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Update: There is now a Knowledge Base article about updating older versions of Acrobat/Reader: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/update-patch-acrobat-reader-7.html You may remember that Adobe “end of life’ed” Adobe Acrobat 9 more than a year ago. This does not mean that Acrobat 9 does not … Continue reading →

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Convert Radio Button Groups to Checkbox Groups in PDF Forms

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

If you’ve worked with PDF forms, you are probably familiar with radio buttons: There is one problem with radio buttons: When you have a selection that also includes “non of the above”, you have to create a separate option for … Continue reading →

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Floating Text on PDF Documents

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Have you ever thought that it would be nice to add some “floating text” to a PDF document that can be shown and hidden based on where the user’s mouse cursor is? This is useful, for example, if you want … Continue reading →

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Embedding Fonts with Acrobat Pro’s Preflight Tool

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Before we talk about how to embed fonts in a PDF file, let’s take a step back and get an idea about how fonts can be used in a PDF file. There are three different methods: A PDF file can … Continue reading →

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Page Splitter Redux

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

One of my more popular blog posts was about splitting PDF pages. I wrote that post five years ago and I am still getting regular feedback and questions. The original script was written for Acrobat 9, and used the “Documents” … Continue reading →

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Extract PDF Pages Based on Content

Posted on April 25, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

How would we identify pages in a PDF document that contain a certain word and extract those pages into a new document? This can be done with a few lines of JavaScript – there are different ways to do this: … Continue reading →

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PDF Navigation Buttons to Return to First Page

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Can you create a PDF navigation button on each page of your document that brings you back to the first page without a single line of JavaScript? Yes, and here is how: Load your document and go to the second … Continue reading →

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Creating a PDF Stamp File from Scratch

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

In my last post I wrote about how to modify existing dynamic PDF stamps in Adobe Acrobat. This time, I’d like to demonstrate how a “normal” PDF file containing different stamp images can be converted to a PDF stamp file … Continue reading →

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Modify Dynamic PDF Stamps in Acrobat

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Adobe Acrobat comes with a number of dynamic PDF stamps. You can select them by going to the Comment pane on the right side, then click on the Stamp tool to bring up the list of stamps. All the factory … Continue reading →

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