Sort PDF by number of pages using Acrobat

This example script drives Adobe Acrobat to query the number of pages from a PDF file.

Information

Supported by: PowerSWITCH (WIN)
Language: Visual Basic Script

Description:

This script first launches Adobe Acrobat and gets the number of pages from the incoming job.
It then goes through the list of output connections and tries to find a match. A matching connection is called "Output (x)" where x is the number of pages in the PDF file.

If a match is found the PDF file is moved through that connection, if not found it is moved to error out connection.

Using this script

• Download and save the script on your computer: download script.
• Select the script element in your PowerSWITCH flow and browse to the script in the script package property.
  or
• Open the script in the SWITCHscripter and change it to your needs.

Example flow

• Sort PDF files on page count using Adobe Acrobat
  This example flow sorts incoming PDFs in folders, based on the number of pages the file contains.