Category Archives: Acrobat

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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Who is Hogging My File?

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

After working on your PDF file for a while, you are ready to save it back to the disk, but Acrobat greets you with an error message: “The document could not be saved. The file may be read-only, or another … Continue reading →

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Duplicate a Page in Adobe Acrobat

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Here is a little secret: It is very easy to duplicate a page in Adobe Acrobat and most Acrobat users don’t know about this trick. Open up Acrobat and display the Page Thumbnails pane: Before we talk about how to … Continue reading →

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Escape from Uninstaller Hell

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Disclaimer: This article demonstrates how to edit the Windows Registry. This is a dangerous thing to do. If you do not feel comfortable doing these kinds of system changes, please don’t proceed. If you do proceed, you are doing so … Continue reading →

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No Signature Requred – The Mac Edition…

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Karl Heinz Kremer

I’ve written about a solution for suppress the green “Signature field(s) detected” bar for Windows before. Adobe finally released some information about how to get rid of this bar on the Mac too: Disable EchoSign Detection This article shows how … Continue reading →

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Convert Documents to Grayscale in an Acrobat Action

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Karl Heinz Kremer

Let’s assume you have a color document that needs to be converted to grayscale. The reason for this can be that it’s cheaper to print a grayscale than a full color document, or OCR results may be better when working … Continue reading →

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