PowerSwitch and versioning

[Sylvain.H]

Hi,

I would like to create documents the following way.

I have a PDF background (A) and another document (B) containing, for example, 10 pages (B1,B2,B3,B4...).

What I try to do is : generating 10 separate documents with A as a background and B as watermark. That would give me 10 documents (A+B1, A+B2, A+B3, A+B4...)

I have PowerSwitch and a the whole bunch of Adobe CS suite softwares.
I tried to write a javascript but I don't succeed to make it work with absolute and relative paths !

One of my operator will use the flow from another plant. PowerSwitch runs on a dedicated MacPro.

Any clue or any other easier way ?

Thanks

 

[mattbeals]

Who's your reseller, can they help you? Where are you located? Which products do you have running in PowerSwitch?

 

[Sylvain.H]

My resellers is O2i and help is not possible (!). I'm in France.

The only product used in my flow in PowerSwitch Acrobat Professional 9.

I think the problem comes from my script. Maybe can I send you the flow with the script. I'm not very used to JavaScript.

 

[Sylvain.H]

I did it !

Finally fund the answer !

First mistake : didn't knew how to talk with addWaterMarkFromFile.
Second mistake : bOnTop had to be on false. (It gave me a white document on true !)
Third mistake... the best of all : nOpacity had to be on 1 instead of 0 !!


Script :

doc = app.activeDocs[0];

doc.addWatermarkFromFile({
cDIPath: "/Volumes/OtoFlows/OUT/Demonte_fond/fond.pdf",
bOnTop: false,
bOnScreen: true,
bOnPrint: true,
nHorizAlign: 0,
nVertAlign: 0,
nHorizValue: 0,
nVertValue: 0,
nScale: 1,
bFixedPrint: false,
nRotation: 0,
nOpacity: 1
});

 

[mattbeals]

Excellent! You know if you have a support contract with Enfocus that they will help as much as they can. Some issues they have to turn over to Professional Services, a paid service. But they're always there. If you need a consultant for Switch I can try and be of service. Why can't O2i help?

 

[Sylvain.H]

I thought...

I thought...

... it was done... But PowerSwitch is faster than light ! And the real problem is here :

how can I say to Acrobat to do this :

foreach("PDF file" in "the folder TOTO")
{
0- open Acrobat
1 - set var bibi = "the name of the file" minus "a part of the name of the file";
2 - if (the name of the file contains "RS")
{
addWaterMarkFromFile(path : somewhere + / + RS-F + var bibi + .pdf)
}
else
{
addWaterMarkFromFile(path : somewhere else + / + RV-F + var bibi + .pdf)
}
3 - save it as a PDF with the name "var bibi.pdf"
}



I think the step 0 can be avoided by using the "acrobat brick" instead of a simple "script brick".
And I think that I can put var bibi in the "Acrobat brick" arguments...

But I'm kinda lost in writing sweet words to Acrobat using javascript !

 

[Sylvain.H]

I'm Late...

I'm Late...

But I did it... about a year ago. Here is the final script :


var theDoc = app.openDoc($infile);

var thePathRectoSeul = "/Users/MacPro/Documents/PPS_FILE/fonds/RS-F_"+$arg1;
var thePathRecto = "/Users/MacPro/Documents/PPS_FILE/fonds/RV-F-R_"+$arg2;
var thePathVerso = "/Users/MacPro/Documents/PPS_FILE/fonds/RV-F-V_"+$arg2;


//depending on the infime name, I "read" if it is only front side or both sides
var chaineToTest = $filename;
var resultat = chaineToTest.search(/RS.+/);
//if resultat=1 front side only else both sides


if($error == null)
{
//on active le fichier à repiquer
doc = app.activeDocs[0];

try
{
//si resultat différent de -1 = si nom de fichier $filename contient RS
if(resultat != -1)
{
console.println("\n La valeur de thePathRectoSeul est : "+thePathRectoSeul);
doc.addWatermarkFromFile({cDIPath: thePathRectoSeul ,bOnTop: false,bOnScreen: true,bOnPrint: true,nHorizAlign: 0,nVertAlign: 0,nHorizValue: 0,nVertValue: 0,nScale: 1,bFixedPrint: false,nRotation: 0,nOpacity: 1});
}

//SINON, on traite un RECTO VERSO
else

{
var monBooleen = false; //impaire
for (var i = 0; i < theDoc.numPages; i++)
{
if(monBooleen == false)//SI PAGE IMPAIRE (RECTO)
{
console.println("\n La valeur de thePathRecto est : "+thePathRecto);
doc.addWatermarkFromFile({cDIPath: thePathRecto, nStart: i , nEnd: i, bOnTop: false,bOnScreen: true,bOnPrint: true,nHorizAlign: 0,nVertAlign: 0,nHorizValue: 0,nVertValue: 0,nScale: 1,bFixedPrint: false,nRotation: 0,nOpacity: 1});
//la page suivante est une page paire
monBooleen = true; //paire
console.println("\n La valeur de monBooleen pour page impaire est : "+monBooleen);
}
else//SINON PAGE PAIRE (VERSO)
{
console.println("\n La valeur de thePathVerso est : "+thePathVerso);
doc.addWatermarkFromFile({cDIPath: thePathVerso, nStart: i , nEnd: i, bOnTop: false,bOnScreen: true,bOnPrint: true,nHorizAlign: 0,nVertAlign: 0,nHorizValue: 0,nVertValue: 0,nScale: 1,bFixedPrint: false,nRotation: 0,nOpacity: 1});
//la page suivante est une page impaire
monBooleen = false; //impaire
console.println("\n La valeur de monBooleen pour page paire est : "+monBooleen);
}
}
}
}
catch(theError)
{
$error = theError;
doc.closeDoc( {bNoSave : true} );
}
}

$error