Past in Place / Export and import doc info to an excel sheet.
Paste in Place function. It's nothing new and Acrobat had it til recent versions. I work in a production atmosphere where sometimes we have to add bleed tabs and make minor edits for printing. It's extremely time consuming now to move the tab around and make it line up perfectly. It would be a more efficient program if you added it back in.
Also we used to able to export and import doc info. It would save a tremendous amount of time instead of hand-entering all the info. We sometimes deal with 100's of files to create 1 book.
As it is, I've had to buy very expensive plugins to do basic functions like shift pages for marginal gutters, scale content, and such.
I'd be more than happy to work with you and help bring acrobat back to a more solid production software. We've used it as a standard for years and now everyone at work only complains about how stripped down the program is.
Brota
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Brota
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Well, The last company I worked for (Print/fulfillment company) I did layout books for them and we had developed a script for exporting and importing document info into a tab deliminated CV file. We'd open it in excel and could use the info for mail merges to create TOCs and Author Index's. We could also re-import the doc info back into the PDF(s) and use the excel file to make overall changes to doc info (document properties).
The doc info exported/imported would display by column in excel:
A: Actual File name
B: Title
C: Author
D: Subject
E: KeywordsWe also used a similar script to export and import bookmarks. We Could break up a single file into separate files and names by their bookmark name and sequence.
p.s. Thank you for the reply.
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AdminGirija Agarwala
(Admin, Adobe)
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Hi Brota,
Thanks for reporting the issues.
Regarding the second issue, could you please specify the exact information that you need to export. Also, how were you able to do this earlier?Regards,
Girija Agarwala
Software Engineer II
Adobe Systems