delete blank pages from pdf with Acrobat automation

[gjbroekhuis]

Hi,

I have automated Acrobat using VFP9 SP2, for example for creating a pdf, printing and merging. Is it possible to automate removing all blank pages from a pdf?

Regards, Gerrit

 

[Koen Piller]

hallo Gerrt,

yes basicly it should be possible. Question is how.
Please show us your coding whith which you are creating the PDFdocument.

Bi,

Jockey(2)

 

[gjbroekhuis]

Hi Jockey,

We use PDF document from all possible sources, created with Adobe Acrobat, scanned documents (using EZTwain), downloaded documents, etc.. In my application we combine a bunch of PDF documents to a single PDF.

When creating a PDF I first create a PS file, then convert to PDF with Distiller. This works fully automated (written in Visual Foxpro 9).

So far I solved the problem by calling a program called TiffPdfCleaner with command line options from my application. This seems to do the job (now testing).

Regards, Gerrit

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Gerrit,

The question might be, why are you getting blank pages in the first place. The second question might be what constitute a blank page?


Mike Gagnon

If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ184-2483 first.
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[markros]

Just in case this link

http://berezniker.com/deleting-pages-pdf-file-through-acrobat-automation

may be helpful.

 

[gjbroekhuis]

Hi Mike, Hi Markros,

The empty pages can come from anywhere. As I said we combine pdf's from many sources, not only pdf's the customer creates. Som pdf's containe empty pages.

With berezniker's pags I can delete a page. How to detect if it's empty by automation?

Regards, Gerrit

 

[markros]

Sorry, I don't know - post a comment with your question on that blog.