I am setting up a new work station and migrating to Mojave.
My current Mac has everything since CS6 installed on it. Somewhere along the way, we aquires an app called "PDF Trim" - a one trick pony that lets you drag many pdfs with cropmarks and bleed and resaves them cropped to the trim box.
I have 1 client who cannot understand crop marks or bleed or our elaborate Slug which identifes and trackes changes and revisions. (They also rename them as pdf-1 , pdf-2 and sends them back to us)...
Point is, I do not know where this app came from and it does not work if I copy it over to the new Mac.
It calls itself an Acrobat Professional Droplet, but does not specify Adobe per se. Adobe.com comes up empty. Can you save droplets in Acrobat, Like Photoshop Actions?
You create droplets in the Acrobat Preflight panel. Go to it and import that droplet if it will let you. Not sure if you can import a droplet but you might be able to. If not you will need to go back and get the preflight profile that created the droplet. Import that preflight into Acrobat Preflight and then create a new droplet from that preflight profile.
This *should* do what you're hoping to do in Acrobat DC.
Quote from: Joe on May 28, 2019, 11:34:07 AM
You create droplets in the Acrobat Preflight panel. Go to it and import that droplet if it will let you. Not sure if you can import a droplet but you might be able to. If not you will need to go back and get the preflight profile that created the droplet. Import that preflight into Acrobat Preflight and then create a new droplet from that preflight profile.
Well, It is not letting me import that droplet, I'll have to try building a profile. The existing one did not go into Acrobat, (that I can tell) and and would just run through a ton of PDFs with no interaction.
I couldn't find a way to make a droplet on a Fixup in Acrobat DC. I did however find out to make it in Acrobat X. See post 7 in this article: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1141689 (https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1141689)
It might help point you in the right direction?
I posted a question on the Adobe forums to see if its possible to create a droplet like this in DC. I'll let you know what I find out.
Quote from: AaronH on May 29, 2019, 11:07:30 AM
I posted a question on the Adobe forums to see if its possible to create a droplet like this in DC. I'll let you know what I find out.
Why can't you create a droplet on a fixup in Acrobat DC. I can do it as far as I can tell. I create a preflight profile with custom fixups in it and the tell it to create a droplet like this. Am I missing something?
Quote from: Just_A_Mac_Guy on May 29, 2019, 10:17:41 AM
Quote from: Joe on May 28, 2019, 11:34:07 AM
You create droplets in the Acrobat Preflight panel. Go to it and import that droplet if it will let you. Not sure if you can import a droplet but you might be able to. If not you will need to go back and get the preflight profile that created the droplet. Import that preflight into Acrobat Preflight and then create a new droplet from that preflight profile.
Well, It is not letting me import that droplet, I'll have to try building a profile. The existing one did not go into Acrobat, (that I can tell) and and would just run through a ton of PDFs with no interaction.
Yeah if you can't find the existing profile that created that droplet you will have to create the preflight profile and then make a droplet of it.
QuotePoint is, I do not know where this app came from and it does not work if I copy it over to the new Mac.
Is Acrobat installed on the new Mac? If not that is probably why the droplet won't work as it has to open acrobat for the droplet to run.
Quote from: Joe on May 29, 2019, 11:30:59 AM
Quote from: AaronH on May 29, 2019, 11:07:30 AM
I posted a question on the Adobe forums to see if its possible to create a droplet like this in DC. I'll let you know what I find out.
Why can't you create a droplet on a fixup in Acrobat DC. I can do it as far as I can tell. I create a preflight profile with custom fixups in it and the tell it to create a droplet like this. Am I missing something?
You can create a droplet with the icons on the left of those three, but on the tab with the wrench alone, you can't create droplets. That's the tab I was able to find the Crop to Trim Box function. At least I can't for whatever reason.
Maybe I am not understanding but you create a preflight profile with fixups and after the prefight profile is saved you then make a droplet of the profile.
Ah ok. I don't think I'm understanding the creation of a droplet. I'll have to look into it a little more.
The trim box thing sounds pretty interesting to me because we have a customer that only wants pdf proofs at only the trim box size and we either have to spend a bit of time tricking XMF into doing it or manually change it with pitstop after our pdf is made. granted it just takes a few moments to do in pitstop, it would be cool to have a droplet that does it.
Yes it will work easily with a preflight profile and then the droplet created from the preflight profile. I use several of them where the only thing in the preflight profile is the page box fixup for different things. Like when a customer sends a file that does not have a trim box but should and it creates the trim box .125" inside the media box. Just drop the file on the droplet and it opens the file and does the fixup and saves the file.
Oh man. Thanks Joe! I've got a droplet going now that does this. Acrobat wasn't letting me create a preflight profile with a document open.
...Though I did just have to reinstall Acrobat because it was throwing an error that it wouldn't open/launch at all. Reinstalling fixed that, so I wonder if it fixed my ability to create a profile? Oh well. It works now!
That is weird. I am sure I have created preflight profiles with a PDF file open before.
I have some success to report. I am open to a more elegant solution.
I had to Export the "Set Cropbox to TrimBox" profile and import it to my imported profiles which is in a list with the left icon selected. I was able to create a droplet which I can drag a whole bunch of PDFs onto. Acrobat will then open a list and flash as it converts the crop box to the trim box. No user interaction.
Showed my boss who immediately wants me to add an action to rename the pdfs...
:facepalm:
Anyone now how to make multiple actions into a droplet?
You can add multiple fixes to the preflight profile and then create one droplet for that profile which will perform all fixes you have in the profile.