Hi all,

can any of you tell me how to set Photoshop as the default for opening images from Acrobat Pro DC (macOS Monterey)?

Whenever I click on an image under "Edit PDF" with the "Edit" tool, the preview is displayed in the "Edit with" submenu. When I say "open with" I can select Photoshop. However, I would like to use Photoshop as the default here so that I don't always have to select the programme under "Open with".

I had actually remembered that I could set this in the settings under the item "Touch up". Unfortunately, this menu item no longer exists in the settings. What I do find is "Content editing". There I selected Photoshop as the default editor for the "Edit object" tool. Unfortunately, this did not have the effect I had hoped for.
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Hallo zusammen,

kann mir einer vom euch sagen, wie ich Photoshop als Standard für das Öffnen von Bildern aus Acrobat Pro DC (macOS Monterey) festlegen kann?

Mir wird immer, wenn ich unter "PDF bearbeiten" mit dem Werkzeug "Bearbeiten" auf ein Bild klicke im Untermenü "Bearbeiten mit" die Vorschau angezeigt. Wenn ich sage, "öffnen mit" kann ich Photoshop auswählen. Ich würde hier aber gerne Photoshop als Standard nutzen, sodass ich unter "Öffnen mit" nicht immer das Programm auswöhlen muss.

Ich hatte eigentlich in Erinnerung, dass ich dies unter den Einstellungen beim Punkt "Touch up" einstellen konnte. Leider gibt es diesen Menüpunkt in den Einstellungen nicht mehr. Was ich finde ist "Inhaltsbearbeitung". Dort habe ich Photoshop als Standard-Editor für das Werkzeug "Objekt bearbeiten" ausgewählt. Leider hatte dies nicht die erhoffte Wirkung.

There is a problem with extracting single pages from particular PDF documments. Attaching the test.pdf file.

Extracting a single page from it (view->tools->Organize Pages->Open and you can do a drag & drop page to windows explorer) we are getting a pdf file with same file size as original but with only one page.
It seems that its not removing all jpegs from the file.
Attaching also sample file with extracted one page.

Files are generated by FPDF library and got a replay on their forum: "That's probably because FPDF uses the same Resources dictionary (containing all images) for all pages"

Doing a File->Save AS fixes the file size but it must be taken as additional action on extracting a page and its a bit problematic for non-technical people.

I know I had this functionality in Adobe in 2014, but I was able to customize the mapping for keyboard shortcuts for tools I frequently used. In 2014 I mapped 'ctrl + shift + x' so that a text comment could be added wherever I clicked. I did turn on single-key accelerators, which is just 'x' as of recently in 2022. I just want to map my own shortcuts so that I can also create a text callout (for example, 'ctrl + shift + y'). I don't see text callout as a single-key accelerator option. I did use the cycle through drawing tools, but that is also not helpful because I frequently use the line, arrow, and rectangle tools. Using 'ctrl + d' takes too long to get back to the line tool if I am now using the rectangle tool (I clicked 'ctrl + d' over 8 times to get back to the line tool after using the rectangle tool. There is no key that allows me to reverse cycle to the line tool. The text callout is showing as a drawing tool, but it doesn't allow me to use it when I use 'ctrl + d'. I use that tool a lot so I would like the text callout feature to be used when cycling through drawing tools.

I also wanted to have a shortcut for using a specific tickmark (PBC, Tickmark, N/A, TR, and PY), which I frequently use. This same thing applies to the Engagement tools (I mainly use "Agrees To" and "Footed").

If I am stuck with using only the single-key accelerators, I would at least prefer to be able to move the first choice on my cycling through drawing tools to be the rectangle and the second choice to the line. I don't see this as an option. I also don't know if there is an option to delete the amount of drawing tools I cycle through so that only the rectangle, line, arrow, and text callout tools are available to cycle through. I don't need the octagon, cloud, or connected lines tools at all.

Please help me with these and allow this functionality so I can be more efficient when editing PDFs. A ton of my work is slowed down by having to manually click through the tools each time I need to use a different tool.

Right now, if you select a picture or text box or ANY object while editing, if you want to move that to the next page, you can't just drag and drop it. you have to CUT it, then scroll to the next page, and paste it. What if you have a full clipboard already, and don't want to put this new thing on it, because it'll slow your work down? There's so many reasons to let people do this, and not one good one I can think of to not have it at LEAST be an option to turn on and off.

I would like to suggest an idea for Adobe Acrobat. The suggestion would be to allow people to insert vector lines and basic shapes to a PDF file. This vector lines and shapes could help us folks that may be looking at sheet music and or make a musical note correction to the sheet music. Also, allow a plug-in to insert musical notes and other music iconography onto a blank PDF file of sheet music. Adobe Acrobat can really be used by the music industry all around the world if they only can see the power and simplicity of using Adobe Acrobat.

I need to redact driver's license numbers from about 1200 PDF pages in Acrobat DC. There is no redaction pattern for driver's license numbers. I found tutorials on how to add custom redaction patterns. I created an updated version of the program's "SearchRedactPatterns" xml. I uploaded the updated version to replace the xml that was already there using a file path shown in multiple tutorials. There are no error messages associated with the new xml and I see no syntax errors in the coding that would prevent it from working. But the new custom pattern does not display in the dropdown menu for redaction pattern options in Acrobat DC. I'm not sure what could be wrong. Attached is a screen shot of the updated xml with the new pattern circled, the file path where I replaced the original xml (and saved a copy), the dropdown menu that displays available patterns, and the portion of the PDF with the Ohio license numbers (OLN) that need to be redacted. There are too many pages for this to be done manually so it is important that this function work as this is a legal matter.

The Bates Stamping tool needs a few more features to help litigation users comply with the court requirements. For example. in Nevada, when we submit trial exhibits to the court, the PDF file name is the exhibit number (e.g., 1.pdf, 2.pdf, 3.pdf) and the Bates number on the document is the File Name plus the page number (e.g., 1-001, 1-002, 1-003; 2-001, 2-002; 3-001, etc.). Currently, we have to process each PDF individually and manually type the filename as the prefix, which is a massive time suck. If the File Name were added as a field to the Bates Stamping tool, however, we could batch process these. All of the other options we need are there, we just need the File Name added, and then we can use the rest of the options we need, such as shrinking the page, formatting the page number with leading zeros, and setting appropriate margins, font size and font color.