Specify the required changes
for the selections.
Observe
the following guidelines when creating Action Lists:
- Changes only
apply to selections. Therefore, make sure that you make the proper
selections in your Action List first. If you have made no selections,
some changes will be applied to everything in your PDF document
(for example fonts) or changes will not be applied at all.
- The operators (AND, NOT,
OR) must not be entered between two
or more selections, but after these
selections (postfix notation). These operators apply to preceding
selections.
- The operators (AND, NOT, OR) are logical operators, which means
that they have to be used in a strictly logical way. For example,
if you want to select the fonts Times-Roman (Adobe Type 1) and Times New Roman (TrueType),
you should not use the AND operator, but the OR operator (a font
cannot be both Times-Roman and Times New Roman at the same time).
You could use the AND operator, for example, to select all text
in Times-Roman and the color
of which is blue. Your Action List would then look as follows:
Select Font Times-Roman
Select Fill Color (RGB: 100 % Blue)
AND
Change Font to Times-Bold
- The
OR and AND operators only apply to two preceding selections. Therefore,
if you want to make more than two selections, you have to insert
multiple operators at the appropriate places in the “stack” of selections.
For example, if you want to select the fonts Times-Roman (Adobe Type 1),
Times New Roman (TrueType) and their bold variants, your Action List should look as follows:
Select Font Times-Roman
Select Font Times-Bold
OR
Select Font Times New Roman
OR
Select Font Times New Roman, Bold
OR
- The NOT operator applies
only to the preceding selection and can be used to exclude something
from a selection. Unlike the OR and AND operators, the NOT operator
only requires one selection. For example, if you want to change
all fonts but Times-Roman in a PDF document to Times-Bold, your Action List would look as follows:
Select Font Times-Roman
NOT
Change Font to Times-Bold
In the above example, the Action List will change all fonts in PDF document
to Times-Bold, but leave Times-Roman (regular) unchanged.