Mass editing of custom format scripts in Editable PDF

[Karen Thring]

Hello,

I have an Editable PDF with several hundred text fields. I want to

1. As a custom format script to all of them

2. Change to Rich Text Formatting in Properties

Is there any way to do this via bulk editing / all at once?

Thanks in advance.

Karen Thring

[try67]

Yes, this can be done using a script that iterates over all the fields and then edits the text fields in this specific manner.

The specific commands you should be using are setAction for #1 and richText for #2.

If you don't want to spend the time writing this script you can use these tools I've developed to do it easily and quickly:

Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Mass Edit Fields Properties

Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Mass Edit Fields Actions

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

If you feel comfortable with JavaScript, then this is very simple to do with an Action. The "Rich Text" property is something you can look up in the API documentation: Acrobat DC SDK Documentation​

All you need to do is loop over all fields in the document, look for text fields, and then set this property:

for (var i=0; i<this.numFields; i++) {
  var f = this.getField(this.getNthFieldName(i));
  if (f.type == "text") {
        f.richText = true;
  }
}

It gets a bit more complicated if you want to assign text to these fields, and even more complex if it's actually Rich Text.