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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 3:04 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Non printing and exporting watermarks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 47
Re: Non printing and exporting watermarks
I agree and we do all of this already , but we do need the flattened original signatures in the extracted document hence such fields are set to flatten when doing this. I think i have made it work for now as its fairly easy to add a remove watermarks step to the scripts that do the extration and col...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Non printing and exporting watermarks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 47
Non printing and exporting watermarks
Hi there, Is it possible to create a watermark that while being non printing and non exporting will also dissapear when the pages are extracted in a future tool. I have tried it with the watermark set to View only but its still present after other operations such as merge, extract pages or similar. ...
- Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:17 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Variable place signatures
- Replies: 5
- Views: 464
Re: Variable place signatures
Thanks for the update, I will have a look round to see if this is workable but i was hoping to have some form of predefined field names to ensure that the right box was signed for both the producer and the checker.
- Thu Jan 12, 2023 4:05 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Stamp files disappearing
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11413
Re: Stamp files disappearing
I have had the same issue at my employer although it only happens when the company microsoft software centre updates the software to the latest version. it appears that it does a removal and re-install every time which resets all saved presets to defult
- Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:14 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Feature Request: Merge PDF Window as list
- Replies: 6
- Views: 586
Re: Feature Request: Merge PDF Window as list
Annnnd we have found a workable solution....
and it was even simpler than changing any of the tools for differnt ones....
ticking the Show extended dialog for files selecting checkbox in the choose input files tool fixed the whole problem!
and it was even simpler than changing any of the tools for differnt ones....
ticking the Show extended dialog for files selecting checkbox in the choose input files tool fixed the whole problem!
- Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:01 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Feature Request: Merge PDF Window as list
- Replies: 6
- Views: 586
Re: Feature Request: Merge PDF Window as list
ahh yes, although this then causes issues with the signatures, presumably adding an extract pages step will solve this
- Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:35 am
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Feature Request: Merge PDF Window as list
- Replies: 6
- Views: 586
Re: Feature Request: Merge PDF Window as list
Just had a go with the convert to PDF and i cant seem to get it to do what i need... every time i tried i got multiple output documents instead of the 1 document. use case is as follows: I have a folder with anything from 3 to 300+ single page PDFs of drawings each are individually digitally signed ...
- Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:13 am
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Feature Request: Merge PDF Window as list
- Replies: 6
- Views: 586
Feature Request: Merge PDF Window as list
Hi there, We use the Split/Merge PDF tool heavily as a component in multi step custom tools. sometimes the files do need to be manually re-arranged to get them in the right order. many users prefer the style of dialog that is given when you right click the files in windows explorer and select combin...
- Tue Dec 06, 2022 5:50 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Variable place signatures
- Replies: 5
- Views: 464
Re: Variable place signatures
Thanks for the reply, unfortunately there is not any actual text as often as not on these documents, or nothing unvarying.... they are scans of old technical drawings on draughting film that are then edited using custom stamps, bits of typewrite comments, various shape tools etc and then flattened (...
- Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:51 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Variable place signatures
- Replies: 5
- Views: 464
Variable place signatures
We have many documents that require 2 digital signatures to be applied ... with the most up to date documents this is applied using a PDF tools script to bulk sign as the signature box is in the same place on every document. however with the older document templates this box could be anywhere on the...
- Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:38 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Sign document issue with already signed documents SOLVED
- Replies: 5
- Views: 931
Re: Sign document issue with already signed documents SOLVED
Confirmed fixed in 9.5.365
now to get our IT to roll this out to users
now to get our IT to roll this out to users
- Fri Nov 25, 2022 1:32 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: [Suggestion] Retain custom settings on upgrade
- Replies: 3
- Views: 235
Re: [Suggestion] Retain custom settings on upgrade
Could be although i just manually upgraded from 363 to 364 to test something and it did exactly the same
- Fri Nov 25, 2022 1:30 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Sign document issue with already signed documents SOLVED
- Replies: 5
- Views: 931
Re: Sign document issue with already signed documents SOLVED
Thanks Stephan ,
looking forward to the next build in that case
looking forward to the next build in that case
- Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:40 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: [Suggestion] Retain custom settings on upgrade
- Replies: 3
- Views: 235
[Suggestion] Retain custom settings on upgrade
Is there any way to retain a users custom stamp collections, custom comment styles and so on when they upgrade the product say from 9.3 to 9.4. at the moment i am constantly trying to help users who have lost all their customization during the software upgrade that was pushed by central IT with no w...
- Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:36 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Sign document issue with already signed documents SOLVED
- Replies: 5
- Views: 931
Sign document issue with already signed documents SOLVED
Hi there, we regularly need to sign documents as both produced and checked often in bulk and as such use tools scripts to do so (the attachment has our 2 tools in it) up to version 9.3 this worked absolutely fine, but in version 9.4 (build 363 and 364) the second signature no longer works and throws...
- Wed Dec 08, 2021 3:30 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Install scripts for all users?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 474
Install scripts for all users?
Hi there, is there a way to install custom scripts for all users on a machine? at the moment each user has to go to Tools --> import tools and select the file we provide for the custom tools they need: this results in having to chase users to upgrade when we release a new version of the tools.... is...
- Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:13 am
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Combine document preview window tooltips SOLVED
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1527
Re: Combine document preview window tooltips SOLVED
Fantastic thanks, incidentally when i run one of my custom tools that has extract pages (flattening all form fields and comments) and then merge the tooltip does work but gives you the filename of the first document for all documents in the list (have to extract the pages as when you run merge docum...
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 2:04 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Combine document preview window tooltips SOLVED
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1527
Re: Combine document preview window tooltips SOLVED
This image shows how it looks in Version 8.0 build 343.0
and this one shows how it is now in 9.0 Build 354.0
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:27 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Make Date Picker use the system date format
- Replies: 4
- Views: 502
Re: Make Date Picker use the system date format
This would be super useful for stuff that has to work internationally, so that the same document written in America with mm/dd/yyyy goes to dd/mm/yyyy when we open it in the rest of the world. at the moment when i need to ensure there is no ambiguity I'm forcing people to use SQL style YYYY-MM-DD wh...
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:18 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Make watermark undeletable SOLVED
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1196
Re: Make watermark undeletable SOLVED
The best way i can think of would be to certify document (invisible)
which basically adds a digital signature to the metadata and allows all of the protection levels a digital signature provided to be implemented
which basically adds a digital signature to the metadata and allows all of the protection levels a digital signature provided to be implemented
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:13 am
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Combine document preview window tooltips SOLVED
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1527
Combine document preview window tooltips SOLVED
Hi there, I have noticed that with version 9.0 the tool tip that used to show the document name when you were combining multiple documents together no longer works (it just shows the page number for the new document) this is in the screen where you can drag the individual documents around to re-arra...
- Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:42 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: BUG Signing Documents with a graphics tablet attached
- Replies: 1
- Views: 343
BUG Signing Documents with a graphics tablet attached
A number of users at my workplace have noticed a bug where when you go to add a digital signature to a document (using a private key stored on a smartcard) PDF Xchange crashes on the smartcard pin entry screen this seems to only happen if the user has a graphics tablet of some form attached, we have...
- Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:38 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: RFE: annotations for marking by teachers/lecturers: ticks (check marks) and crosses
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2471
Re: RFE: annotations for marking by teachers/lecturers: ticks (check marks) and crosses
I would do this with stamps too, I check engineering documents a fair bit and do this quite a lot this way but what the OP suggested that i fully agree with would be the ability to add a button to the toolbar/ribbon of a pre-defined stamp from your collection, If i had 1 or 2 custom stamps i used li...
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:38 am
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Rasterise Pages?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1110
Re: Rasterise Pages?
That's interesting,
I dont have that option in the pages menus...
Im using PDF tools 8.0 build 343.0 not sure which build you are using there?
I dont have that option in the pages menus...
Im using PDF tools 8.0 build 343.0 not sure which build you are using there?
- Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:00 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Rasterise Pages?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1110
Rasterise Pages?
Is there a way to run the Pages :arrow: more for pages :arrow: rasterise pages tool (in Xchange editor) as a batch tool in the PDF tools? i am going to need to rasterise several thousand currently hybrid single page documents in the not too distant future and would much prefer to set them going with...
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 12:23 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Lock Comments
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2107
Re: Lock Comments
one more question, is there a flatten selected annotation JS i have found flattenPages() which can accept a page number as the input to flatten all annotations on a selected page, but is there one that will allow passing the annotation id as in your script above. something along the lines of flatten...
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:32 am
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Automatic filling form from user-provided values
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1985
Re: Automatic filling form from user-provided values
Thats pretty much how i envisage it. apart from i want to be able to prompt a non technical user to enter this data for me when the user clicks run and chooses the input files for example they would get a box with "Please enter Project Number" and an text entry box. (I would set up the mes...
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:25 am
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Lock Comments
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2107
Re: Lock Comments
Thanks for the update,
Hopefully the PDF tools will have a Custom JS action soon. plenty of things i can think of that this would be super useful for.
Hopefully the PDF tools will have a Custom JS action soon. plenty of things i can think of that this would be super useful for.
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:52 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Automatic filling form from user-provided values
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1985
Re: Automatic filling form from user-provided values
I would love a couple of basic script variables as PDF tools options, such as "Prompt for input" that displays an input box when a script is run that i could then use the stored variable (in %[VARNAME] format) in any other subsequent tool where i could use macros such as %[FILENAME]
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 6:46 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Lock Comments
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2107
Lock Comments
Is there a way to change the locked flag to yes on all comments using a PDF tools script? as in Select all comments and lock them. We have lots of documents that various comments get added to as they age (they are digitally signed before so the comments cant be flattened much as we wish this was pos...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 2:57 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Stamping every page in a document
- Replies: 3
- Views: 947
Re: Stamping every page in a document
Thats a great tool,
now i just need to work out how to apply stamps in certain locations using the PDF tools scripts
now i just need to work out how to apply stamps in certain locations using the PDF tools scripts
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 2:53 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Stamps Management
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1062
Re: Stamps Management
Will have to give that a go
only one of the collections contains stamps with dynamic bits (dates)
only one of the collections contains stamps with dynamic bits (dates)
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:16 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Stamps Management
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1062
Stamps Management
Hi there, I have created many custom stamps for my workplace which are sorted into various collections. I can export my entire stamps palette for anyone else to import with little problems but is it possible to export individual collections separately so that people only install the stamps they actu...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:08 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Stamping every page in a document
- Replies: 3
- Views: 947
Stamping every page in a document
Hi there.
Say I have a 300 page document That i need to place the same stamp in the same place on every single page ( I already have the samp set up as a custom stamp)
is there an easy way to do this without having to repeat some action 300 times?
either with Xchange editor or PDF tools?
Say I have a 300 page document That i need to place the same stamp in the same place on every single page ( I already have the samp set up as a custom stamp)
is there an easy way to do this without having to repeat some action 300 times?
either with Xchange editor or PDF tools?
- Thu May 07, 2020 11:06 am
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Flattening Digital Signatures SOLVED
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1846
Re: Flattening Digital Signatures SOLVED
Many thanks,
The extract pages tool worked perfectly for what I needed
The extract pages tool worked perfectly for what I needed
- Wed May 06, 2020 9:41 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Requiring a Digital Signature from a third party
- Replies: 2
- Views: 814
Re: Requiring a Digital Signature from a third party
If you use the edit form function to place a signature box in the document it will give a little red "Sign here" flag that when clicked will pop up the digital signature tool
- Wed May 06, 2020 8:53 am
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Flattening Digital Signatures SOLVED
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1846
Flattening Digital Signatures SOLVED
Hi there. is there a way to flatten digital signatures easilly? as in to keep the graphical look but to remove the actual cryptographic signature and allow editing again? If i have 2 documents both of which are signed and I merge them together (selecting flatten for comments and form fields) the the...
- Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:19 pm
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Split PDF with Zero padding SOLVED
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3290
Re: Split PDF with Zero padding SOLVED
Thanks for that, its working well enough for now
be nice though if there was an automatic way of getting the right number based on the %[pages] value so 1-9 gives :1 10-99 gives :2 100-999 gives :3 1000-9999 gives :4 and so on automatically
be nice though if there was an automatic way of getting the right number based on the %[pages] value so 1-9 gives :1 10-99 gives :2 100-999 gives :3 1000-9999 gives :4 and so on automatically
- Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:28 am
- Forum: PDF-Tools
- Topic: Split PDF with Zero padding SOLVED
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3290
Split PDF with Zero padding SOLVED
Hi I need to split some large multi page PDFs into one page files the Merge/split tool seems to do this fine (split every 1 page) with one issue, the ouput is filename-1.pdf filename2.pdf ..... filename-9.pdf filename-10.pdf ..... filename-99.pdf filename-100.pdf and so on the problem is that I then...
- Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:57 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: *Editor wish list*
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7613
Re: *Editor wish list*
Never mind, ive just found the button to change it and its much better now
- Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:49 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: *Editor wish list*
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7613
Re: *Editor wish list*
Classic view... as in back to the v6.x style view rather than the current MS office ribbon clone which adds 4 clicks to switch between the tools i use the most instead of 1! (i now have to go from Home tab, to comment tab, select the comment type i need, then go to the commenting format tab then bac...
- Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:51 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Text Box Properties
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1977
Re: Text Box Properties
example of when you have loads of custom comment styles in the typewriter tool
- Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:46 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Lost UI menus SOLVED
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2565
Re: Lost UI menus SOLVED
Thanks that fixed it,
after making sure i unchecked the box for my preset comment styles! phew
after making sure i unchecked the box for my preset comment styles! phew
- Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:43 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Text Box Properties
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1977
Re: Text Box Properties
if you long press the typewriter or text box tools then open comment style pallets,
you can then clone the style twice, change the font size on one, then you have that size as a shortcut in the dropdown from the button, I use this feature all the time.
you can then clone the style twice, change the font size on one, then you have that size as a shortcut in the dropdown from the button, I use this feature all the time.
- Fri Sep 08, 2017 9:37 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Lost UI menus SOLVED
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2565
Lost UI menus SOLVED
Hi, I appear to have randomly lost all my UI menu buttons, they were visible yesterday but have dissapeard this morning, I have the menu bar, (f9) but none of the other tool bars, when i go to veiw toolbars they are all ticket but there is no effect by ticking and unticking them... apart from the ch...
- Thu Sep 07, 2017 1:27 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: comments on vector PDFs SOLVED
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3000
Re: comments on vector PDFs SOLVED
ahh that print as images, sadly it made no differance,
was thinking that you meant to tell the pdf xchange printer to print from the CAD program as an image but i couldn't find any such option in the settings
was thinking that you meant to tell the pdf xchange printer to print from the CAD program as an image but i couldn't find any such option in the settings
- Thu Sep 07, 2017 9:41 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: comments on vector PDFs SOLVED
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3000
Re: comments on vector PDFs SOLVED
and I have just found a better work around,
document, backgrounds, add background, white 100% opacity
and it prints fine then!
document, backgrounds, add background, white 100% opacity
and it prints fine then!
- Thu Sep 07, 2017 9:38 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: comments on vector PDFs SOLVED
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3000
Re: comments on vector PDFs SOLVED
sorry for the very late reply, I managed to solve it at the time by printing to a peice of paper and rescanning,
how do i print the document as an image to begin with from the pdf Printer plugin?
how do i print the document as an image to begin with from the pdf Printer plugin?
- Tue Jun 13, 2017 10:08 am
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Do you want to close all opened documents?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3747
Do you want to close all opened documents?
every time i click on a PDF link within the PDF xchange editor plugin to IE/Firefox i am getting the following dialog box Do you want to close all opened documents? yes and dont ask again yes no this generally causes the plugin to crash before you can click anything anyway, this has only happened si...
- Tue Nov 01, 2016 12:20 pm
- Forum: PDF-XChange Editor
- Topic: Remove icon in windows explorer preview
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1159
Re: Remove icon in windows explorer preview
Many thanks, that has fixed it!