Acrobat XI Action Wizard

Does Adobe offer any automation process to assist with Acrobat action wizard items?

Hi JackAlspaugh
No , Adobe doesn't provide to access those features through command line , You need to open it and run it. If you want this feature to be included, please raise your request at https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

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    Hi lpurollpsmi,
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    Acrobat Help | Action wizard (Acrobat Pro)
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    This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/using/WSdd9016941e183011-149709e812b380ff7dd-8000.html

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  • Reduce file size with action wizard

    (German version below)
    Hey,
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  • Applescript for running specific action from action wizard...

    Hi Forum,
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    Hi Forum,
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            tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro" to activate
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    end tell
    many thanks for the support..

    Hello Rajinik,
    I found your question in the forum and I am exactly in the same situation...
    I hace some actions defined in Acrobat X Pro and I would like to execute them just by saving a file in a folder, but it seems something difficult to achieve.
    Did you find any help on this or another forum to resolve it?
    Searching for some info, i found a website with some info about a way to automatically OCR the pdf pages through theaction wizard, but it didn´t worked in my Mac. Search in Google "OCR This"
    Thanks and Regards
    Johanet

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    I am trying to figure out if there is a way to change the "Initial View" settings in the document properties using the Action Wizard.
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