Change Text Box properties on entire document

[Muppet Rat]

I have a 50+ page document with a lot of copy & pasted text boxes throughout. All the boxes have a red border which I would like to change to a more subtle colour. Is there any way I can change all the boxes in the document at once without having to go to the properties of each one individually?
TIA

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hello Muppet Rat,

You could achieve this with some JavaScript.
To open the JS console in the Viewer press Ctrl-J, and then copy and paste this code there:

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var annots = this.getAnnots();
for(i = 0; i < annots.length; i++){
  if (annots[i].type == "FreeText"){
    annots[i].strokeColor = ["RGB", 1, 0.5, 0.7];
  }
}

This will make all free text annotations with pink border. If you want another colour you can change the Red, Green and Blue values accordingly.

Best,
Stefan

[Muppet Rat]

Hi Stefan,
Thanks for that. It "sort" of worked. It's made the boxes vanish, and the colour I chose shows up when the box is selected.
All good though - the scary red all over the doc has gone
Thanks again

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hi Muppet Rat,

It should not be making them vanish!
So please make sure you have the latest build of our Viewer first (2.5.208):
www.tracker-software.com/PDFXVwer.zip
After that try exporting all comments to a data file, delete all comments from a copy of the file, import the ones you exported earlier and then try running the script again!

Best,
Stefan

[Muppet Rat]

After that try exporting all comments to a data file, delete all comments from a copy of the file, import the ones you exported earlier and then try running the script again!

I'm not sure I understand that, do you mean "Export all settings to data file"? By "comments" do you mean the pasted blocks of text?

Since putting in the script, new blocks of text have the coloured border, just not the earlier ones.

[Paul - Tracker Supp]

Hi Muppet Rat,

I'm not sure I understand that, do you mean "Export all settings to data file"? By "comments" do you mean the pasted blocks of text?

He means use the command in the Comments menu to export and import the comments to/from a file.

Comments --> Export Comments to Data File... and Comments --> Import Comments

hth