Optimize your PDF production with Batch sequence

One of the annoying issues I have to manage with my PDF production is to repeat the same operation in many pages of more than document.
With Acrobat 7 it's now possible to use a batch sequence to define from a set of operations what you want to do choosing which files to modify and where to store the finished file.

Acrobat 7 allows to choose from 8 different batch operations (comments, documents, pages,  etc.) that give you a large range of possibilities : opening files, printing, deleting comments, adding headers and footers, description.

In our example we'll add a Header & Footer section to our pdf documents. Open Acrobat 7 Professional and :

• Under menu Advanced > Batch Processing. It opens the Batch Sequences window where you can choose the batch process
• Choose a New Sequence so you can give a name to your batch process and decide to reuse it whenever you want.
• The Edit Batch Sequence dialog opens
• Click the Select Commands button and the Edit Sequence dialog opens
• Choose  Document menu and select Add  a Header & Footer section
• Now specify the settings Acrobat will use for adding the  add  Header & Footer batch sequence

Have also a look at Whip up a batch of watermarks article from Adobe site.

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