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Gustavo
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Post by Gustavo »

Hi, I wonder if someone could guide me with the following:

#1 - I created a preflight and I added an action to flatten the markups that come in the PDF. If I add another action to run, related to making all of the page sizes the same, it does not seem to run.
I have noticed that some actions added after the preflight rules don't seem to run.
Can you guide me as of how to indicate that an action has to run after all of the others have run?

#2 - All of the pages in the file (400 pages) should be 8.5x11. I noticed some that are just 8.48x9.5" so I want to run actions to put the trim marks at the right place, and center the image within the trim marks.
What would be the actions, and how to concatenate them, to achieve this?

Thanks
freddyp
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Post by freddyp »

Actions are executed on the selection:
Select images, Resample image
Select text, Select color red, AND, Change color to green
etc.

Those are straightforward. But what happens in the following action list?

Select annotations
Flatten annotations
Change trim box

If you think that the annotations are flattened and the trim box is changed, you are wrong. What is selected? The annotations. So these get flattened alright, but as annotations do not have a trim box, change trim box does nothing. Pages have trim boxes, so:

Select annotations
Flatten annotations
Select all or Select page
Change trim box

is correct.

I suspect that your action list infringes on this principle.
Gustavo
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Post by Gustavo »

Thanks so much for your help
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