delete blank pages from pdf file

[gjbroekhuis]

Hi,

I have automated Acrobat (COM/OLE), for example for creating a pdf, printing and merging. Is it possible to automate removing all blank pages from a pdf?

Regards, Gerrit

 

[macproductionartist]

I'm not a programmer, but there should be a way for you to access Preflight. (Advanced.../Preflight) Click on the wrench icon to see the options, then click the down arrow under Pages. There's a fix up called "Remove Empty Pages". If I was writing an Applescript, I'd have to use GUI scripting to get to it, but I think Javascript choices are more robust. Check out the SDK at Adobe.com.

Greg
macproductionartist.wordpress.com

 

[MakeItSo]

Hi Gerrit,

if you have automated it using VB, the following code snippet might help you; if you are using C++ or other, you can still use the algorithm of it:

Dim PDTextS As Acrobat.AcroPDTextSelect
Dim Result As Long, PDDoc As Acrobat.AcroPDDoc
Dim PDPage As Acrobat.AcroPDPage
Dim PDHili As Acrobat.AcroHiliteList
Dim B As Boolean, thePDF As String

Set PDDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.pdDoc")
    
    Result = PDDoc.Open(thePDF)
    If Not Result Then
        MsgBox "Can't open file: " & thePDF
        Exit Sub
    End If
    [b]
    p = PDDoc.GetNumPages
    For i = 0 To p - 1
        Set PDPage = PDDoc.AcquirePage(i)
        Set PDHili = CreateObject("AcroExch.HiliteList")
        B = PDHili.Add(0, 2000)
        Set PDTextS = PDPage.CreatePageHilite(PDHili)
        
        [red]NTL = PDTextS.GetNumText
        If NTL=0 Then pddoc.DeletePages(i)[/red]
    '...
    '...
    Next i[/b]
    '...
    '...

Something like this?


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[taupirho]

Hi,

Something like the following Javascript ought to do what you want.

var numwords = 0;
for (var p = 0; p < this.numPages; p++)
{
numwords = this.getPageNumWords(p);
switch(numwords)
{
case 0:
this.deletePages({nStart: p, nEnd: p});
break;
}
}


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[macproductionartist]

No need for scripting this one. I posted a detailed how-to on my blog. Here is the link:

http://macproductionartist.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/delete-blank-pages-in-acrobat-9/

It's pretty straightforward.

They may take the link away, but you can still get there by clicking on my user name.

Cheers.

Greg

 

[gjbroekhuis]

Hi Greg,

I don't quite understand your post. We don't do any action in Acrobat, it has to be fully automated. We incorporate the "delete blank pages" function when creating a single pdf document from various pdf documents. Just one mouse click "create" and all the work should be done without any interference or interaction.

For the moment I integrated TiffPdfCleaner in our application, which works quite well.

Regards, Gerrit