Pitstop Action to add pages?

[andygill]

Does anyone know of a resource where I might be able to find a Pitstop Action List item that will allow me to add PDF #2 to the end of PDF #1?

I'm trying to work out a head-scratcher in ApogeeX 2.5, where I need to be able to append an existing one-page PDF to the end of a new one-page PDF, to give me a two-pager that I can rip and impose automatically.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Andy

[seetomtype]

Two ways to do it that I can think of using Acrobat:

Create a new pdf via File > Create PDF > Multiple Files then
navigate to the PDF's you want and order them in the dialog box.

or

Document > Pages > Insert Pages and insert PDF #2 after the last page
of PDF #1 in the dialog box.

[andygill]

Thanks - what I really need, though, is to work the File/Insert Pages command into a Pitstop Action List. That way I can export that Action List item from Acrobat and import it into my rip.

[mattbeals]

With a PitStop Preflight Profile you can add blank pages to the end of a document to "fit" a certain page count.

[andygill]

Yes - adding pages until I reach the right count gets me halfway there...

What we're trying to figure out is a way to add a specific one-page pdf to the end of a separate one-pager. In other words, I want to make an action list item that will take whatever pdf that I have open, and append the file "lastpage.pdf" to the end of it.

For some reason, adding/inserting a file doesn't seem to be an option in the Action List editor. Kind of surprising, since it doesn't seem like a complicated task, but it's not available as an editable option, and it won't allow me to "record" it and replay it either. Weird.

[mattbeals]

NOt all that wierd. It's not in the dictionary of actions in PitStop. PitStop cannot access Acrobat functions as Acrobat cannot access PitStop. I think in this case the best you could hope for would be to fill the document up to the required page count with a preflight profile then paste the content of the last page into the last page of the PDF. But you cannot go out and grab a document/page and import that with an action list.

[almaink]

You didn't say what OS your running and I'm not much of an author myself, just a user, I think an Acrobat Applescript may be a solution. If you specify a hot folder for the additional PDF to add that is. I did a quick Google search and found a few scripts for Acrobat 5, a harder search may reveal your answer.
I wonder if Automator could do this? It's gotta be good for something.
It can but it uses the system's Quartz PDF to do the dirty work not Acrobat.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/

[Seagull]

Try using Acrobat's batch processing feature, it's under the Advanced menu. I use it all the time to add a common back to bunch of different fronts, it's really fast. If you need any help setting it up let me know and i can email you a pdf on how it works.