About Michael Jahn Expertise Any and all questions related to creating and modifying PDF files for use in prepress and printing environments.
Experience After being a director of a prepress company, I was involved in development and was product manager to several prepress products related to PDF creation, production and submission to high end printing environments.
Organizations PODi, IPA, Acrobat Users Group, (and was technical director of SGAUA - the Scitex Graphic Arts User Association - what we used to call the Floor Top Publishing systems back in the 80's!
Education/Credentials BS in Biomedical communications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Honors AGFA's PDF Evangelist - was honored to receive, of behalf of AGFA, an award for shipping the 1st PostScript 3 RIP (AGFA Taipan) from Adobe
Past/Present Clients I have been a consultant to many developers. SGAUA (Scitex), 4-Sight, AGFA, Enfocus, Pantone, and currently, ELAN GMK
Expert: Michael Jahn Date: 6/12/2007 Subject: PDF page size
Question QUESTION: I need to be able to check and return the width and height of a multiple pdf files that come in for printing. The value has to be returned to a database. Pretty much in a hot folder kind of way.What programs out there can do this and if there isn't what is my other alternatives. Please help as I am stuck with my project for months and I am unable to complete it just because of this module.
ANSWER: Are you familiar with Enfocus PitStop Server ?
There are many Action lists you can download and modify if that is an option to incorporate into your workflow.
Are you a programmer ? If you can write JavaScript, a good place to start is here;
QUESTION: Yes i am a programmer but with little experiance in javascripting and especially for acrobat. Can you tell me if the scirpt I will be using will be in the form of a document level script or a folder level script? Plus is there anywhere else that I can get some sample scripts to help me kick start javascripting. By the way thanks for the previous reply it was very helpful
Answer As I believe that what you are interested in is examining a PDF document and - page by page - extracting information about the pages, copying this into memory and then placing this information into a database record - I would assume that this would be a folder level script. As PDF files can be multiple pages, and Acrobat does not require all pages to be the same size, this may require that the parties exchanging these file follow some rules !
If you are uncomfortable with writing Javascript and have a tight deadline, perhaps you might even consider licensing something from Enfocus or apago - or asking Thom at windjack.com to build something for you.
