On the acrobat 8 menu there is an option to extract pages to separate
files.  Does anyone know how to access and control this from VB?  I
don't see it listed in the Inter Application docs.

barcrofter <jd.prsn@gmail.com> wrote:

>On the acrobat 8 menu there is an option to extract pages to separate
>files.  Does anyone know how to access and control this from VB?  I
>don't see it listed in the Inter Application docs.

Acrobat's automation isn't based on giving access to separate parts of
the interface.

But you can do this by repeatedly

* Create new document
* Insert page into new document
* Save new document
* Close new document


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On Feb 9, 12:03 am, qu...@dial.pipex.con (Aandi Inston) wrote:
> barcrofter <jd.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On the acrobat 8 menu there is an option to extract pages to separate
> >files.  Does anyone know how to access and control this from VB?  I
> >don't see it listed in the Inter Application docs.
>
> Acrobat's automation isn't based on giving access to separate parts of
> the interface.
>
> But you can do this by repeatedly
>
> * Create new document
> * Insert page into new document
> * Save new document
> * Close new document
>
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> Aandi Inston
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That sounds like a plan. I was looking at the IAC document print
wondering (at 4am) whether acrobat could print a page of a document to
a specific file as a pdf.   many thanks.

On Feb 8, 7:29=A0pm, barcrofter <jd.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the acrobat 8 menu there is an option to extract pages to separate
> files. =A0Does anyone know how to access and control this from VB? =A0I
> don't see it listed in the Inter Application docs.

Yes. You can do it using Acrobat SDK, but using C++. Not sure about
VB. Acrobat SDK is free to download.

David

~~~~~ http://www.xpsplus.com ~~~~~~~~~~~
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about XML Paper Specification (XPS).
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You may look at JSO in Acrobat IAC section, that's better then to try
menuitemExecute.
Attached a short VBS example.

HTH, Reinhard

 '//Extraxt all Pages of a multipage PDF and numbers it

  '//-> State the full pathname to the file you want ot work with
Path = "C:\Abmt1.pdf"

  '//-> Set general used Objects
Set GApp = CreateObject("Acroexch.app")
Set AVDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.AVDoc")

  '//-> Open the File via Avdoc and assign JSO
If (AVDoc.Open(Path, Path)) Then
  Set AVPageView = AVDoc.GetAVPageView
  Set PDDoc = AVDoc.GetPDDoc()
  Set JSO = PDDoc.GetJSObject
  ' gApp.Show   '<==show or comment out for operate visible/invisible

  '//-> Extracting all pages via JSO and save it numbered
  for x = 0 to jso.numPages - 1
    FLNew = "c:\test" &"_" & right(x + 1001,3) &".pdf"
    jso.extractPages x, x, FLNew
  next
end if
MsgBox "Done!"

Set JSO = Nothing
Set PDDoc = Nothing
Set AVDoc = Nothing
Set gApp = Nothing

On Feb 9, 8:51 am, DavidGao <david...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 8, 7:29 pm, barcrofter <jd.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On the acrobat 8 menu there is an option to extract pages to separate
> > files.  Does anyone know how to access and control this from VB?  I
> > don't see it listed in the Inter Application docs.
>
> Yes. You can do it using Acrobat SDK, but using C++. Not sure about
> VB. Acrobat SDK is free to download.
>
> David
>
> ~~~~~http://www.xpsplus.com~~~~~~~~~~~
> Specifications, reviews and programming
> about XML Paper Specification (XPS).
> ~~~~~http://www.xpsplus.com~~~~~~~~~~~

Can you give me a hint as to where I should look.  Ive had very little
luck browsing though that morass.  I cant even find the examples.

barcrofter <jd.prsn@gmail.com> wrote:

>Can you give me a hint as to where I should look.  Ive had very little
>luck browsing though that morass.  I cant even find the examples.

Do you mean, where to look to download the SDK, or where to look in
the SDK for information? You will not find finished examples to copy.

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barcrofter <jd.prsn@gmail.com> wrote:

>Can you give me a hint as to where I should look.

Reading back, I see you already have the SDK and the IAC document.
Check out PDDoc.InsertPages.
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> > > On the acrobat 8 menu there is an option to extract pages to separate
> > > files.  Does anyone know how to access and control this from VB?  I
> > > don't see it listed in the Inter Application docs.
> >
> > Yes. You can do it using Acrobat SDK, but using C++. Not sure about
> > VB. Acrobat SDK is free to download.
> >
> > David

> Can you give me a hint as to where I should look.  Ive had very little
> luck browsing though that morass.  I cant even find the examples.

If you don't insist on using the Acrobat SDK: it is very simple to extract
pages from a PDF with command line tool PDFTK
(http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/); just call this with parameters from your
VB program.

Govert

>>> =A0I cant even find the examples.

I gave you an example, just 2 answers before.
=46rom time to time, reading helps a lot.

br, Reinhard

On Feb 10, 8:29 am, ReFOB <Re...@web.de> wrote:
> >>>  I cant even find the examples.
>
> I gave you an example, just 2 answers before.
> From time to time, reading helps a lot.
>
> br, Reinhard

Actually I read them all and tried both ideas.  They have been
enormously helpful!
What Im doing is comparing the speed of Lotus wordpro's ability to
generate seperate page files and pdf's via the Adobe PDF printer/
distiller combination, with acrobat's ability since wordpro is slow.
Maybe all methods are slow.

I was puzzled by the JSO idea since the acrobat.tlb has no type
information for it -- as (I now find) explained in the IAC programmers
guide.  Ill check it out further since it appears to be more
powerful.  I thought that maybe my Adobe 8.0 standard had no JSO.

FYI -- here's a cut at the two doc approach in vb.net (possibly with
bugs)

    '---generate the single page views using acrobat
    Dim AcroApp As Acrobat.AcroApp =
CType(CreateObject("AcroExch.App"), Acrobat.AcroApp)
    '---for the single page files
    Dim Doc1 As Acrobat.AcroPDDoc =
CType(CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc"), Acrobat.AcroPDDoc)
    '---for the original file
    Dim Doc2 As Acrobat.AcroPDDoc =
CType(CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc"), Acrobat.AcroPDDoc)
    '---an empty pdf
    Const BlankPDF = "C:\MER\PDF\Blank.pdf"

    For Each selItem In ListView.SelectedItems
    '---get the listview items in this section
    Dim fp$ = selItem.Text
    Dim fn$ = My.Computer.FileSystem.GetName(fp$)
    Dim Pg%
    '---use listview to ID the item in pdfOut
            fp = pdfOut + "\" + Split(fn, ".")(0) + ".pdf"
            Doc2.Open(fp)
    '---extract each page in doc2 to doc1
            For Pg = 0 To Doc2.GetNumPages - 1
    '---open a blank pdf, and add 1 page from the current doc2
                Doc1.Open(BlankPDF)
                Doc1.InsertPages(0, Doc2, Pg, 1, 0)
    '---save this single page as the new pdf
                Doc1.Save(1, pdfOut + "\" + Split(fn, ".")(0) + "_" +
Pg.ToString + ".pdf")
                Doc1.Close()
            Next
            Doc2.Close()
   Next    '(listview item)
'---cleanup
   Try
	AcroApp = Nothing
	Doc1 = Nothing
        Doc2 = Nothing
   Catch
        etc
   End Try

many thanks.  JDP.

" I thought that maybe my Adobe 8.0 standard had no JSO "
You may check it. Simple save my script as split.vbs and doubleclick.

However, the most examples you will find in the acrobat JS helpfile.
Therefore, for me the best way to automize acrobat is to execute JS
direct. You can use the scripts from inside and outsite and you don't
have to invent the wheel new.

For simple split and merge I use the freeware commandline tool
"mbtPdfasm.exe". It's simple to use and everyone can use your scripts
whithout having expensive software. I prefer it compared to pdftk,
because it can read and write bookmarks.

Good luck, Reinhard