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9.2 Action types
About action types
Basically, when you create an Action List, you select something in the PDF document and you
change it into something else. For example, you select the spot color “Company Green” and change
it into “Company Gray”.
However, an Action List can do more. It can consist of the following types of actions:
• Selections on page 178
• Changes on page 178
• Checks on page 178
• Informs on page 178
Selections
Before you can change something in a PDF document, you evidently have to select it. Anything
which can be selected in a PDF document is listed in the Selections category, together with the
logical operators “AND”, “NOT, “OR”.
Changes
The list of changes includes almost anything which professional PDF editing tools like PitStop Pro
can do, including:
• Adding objects, or page numbers
• Changing a wide variety of properties, including page boxes
• Color conversions
• Removing objects
• Rotating and scaling page content
• Font- and color-related changes
Checks
Action Lists do not necessarily have to change PDF documents. You can also create them to check
various properties in PDF documents or detect specific objects or elements. For example, an Action
List can check font-related properties or detect empty pages in a PDF document.
Each “check” or “detect” action can be logged as “Warning”, “Sign-Off” or “Error” in the report.
Informs
Action Lists can also gather information from PDF documents. This can be information about fonts,
colors, OPI, etc. The corresponding chapters will be included in the report.
9.3 Running an Action List
Running an Action List can be done from the Enfocus Processing - Action Lists panel.
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