System information

Stop recording. See To create an Action List by recording on page 184
Use a Variable Name instead of a fixed value.
Ways to create or edit an Action List
You can create or edit an Action List in different ways:
• “Manually”, using the Enfocus Action List Editor. This means that you add or change actions
(selections, changes and operators) to your Action List one by one. See To create or edit an
Action List on page 182
• by Recording, using the Start Recording button in the Enfocus Action List Editor. This is a very
intuitive way of creating an Action List: you open a PDF document, you perform a number of
tasks and you record these tasks. As soon as you stop recording, the actions will be added to
your Action List. See To create an Action List by recording on page 184
• You can also make Global Changes and save these changes as Action Lists using the Save as
Action List button. See Global Changes on page 167
• You can download examples from the Enfocus Action List Library on our Web site and adapt it
to your needs. Go to www.enfocus.com and search for Action Lists.
Once your Action List is ready, you can also add it to a Preflight Profile.
Guidelines for creating Action Lists
Basically, you create an Action List using the following steps:
1. Make one or more selections.
2. Specify operators (AND, NOT, OR) for your selections.
3. 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.
• If an operator is selected in the Action List Editor, the Actions (or group of actions) it affects,
will be represented using a green and purple indicator.
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