Newbee - question fpr scripting

Hi, I'm new to scripting Acrobat and JavaScript (besides some Web-JS), but familiar to scripting InDesign (CS to CS3 with AppleScript). Now I'm on the challenge to do some Acrobat scripting.
Please let me know, if my problem could basicallybe solved with Acrobat scripting and please give me a bit of a startup.
I want to create an image check. Distiller converts the images to PDF. So I need to access the image in the PDF and extract information like: resolution, dimensions, color space, color profile.
I expect some problems, when pixel images where placed into a vector graphic. So I need the information, that blabla.eps is vector graphic, but contains pixel images with resolution, dimension, color space, color profile.
Do I have a chance to do such a thing by scripting?
Or does anybody has some other solution to this?
Thanks
Tobias

What you are looking to do cannot be achieved through script, but could be accomplished in C/C++ as a plug-in with the freely available Acrobat SDK.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/

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>
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"JD" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I had posted this in the zen3 and 4 group but havent heard an answer so im
> posting here too.
> -
>
>
> When using a script to determine whether or not a computer has been imaged
> (new to network) if the user chooses no then reboots, it says there is no
> work to do, somehow it deletes either the mbr or corrupts the zisdata. We
> have to reboot, go into manaul mode imaging, do a zisedit -c and then
start
> again.
>
> If the user chooses no, it should power down (halt), and next time they
> reboot, they should see the same screen. Telling them its going to be
> imaged. Does anyone know how to fix this?... i have pasted the script
below.
> And part 2, when they choose N, for some reason it goes into init 6, when
i
> have said init 0
>
if ["$AGREE" = "Y"];then
if test ! $ZISNAME; then
echo -e "No image-safe data found."
echo -e "Assuming this is a new workstation."
while test ! $WSNAME; do
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fi
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would cause you to fall into the wrong parts of your code, but I do notice
two things, both of which may be meaningless:
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