Adobe Combine Feature - Sorts numbered files incorrectly

At my company we use a scanning software called Kofax. We also have copies of Adobe Acrobat Standard 6-9 depending on how old the work station is.
Lets say I scan a batch of 120 pages. It will scan each page as an individual .tif file and put them all in a folder.
The naming convention for each page is:
1.tif
2.tif
3.tif
etc
etc
Windows explorer sorts these numbers in correct order. If I decide to select all 120 pages I just scanned, right click, Combine into PDF, it will place the pages in the following order.
1.tif
10.tif
11.tif
12.tif
etc etc
100.tif
101.tif
etc etc
2.tif
20.tif
21.tif
etc etc
This basically requires me to resort the entire batch in the Adobe combine screen. This is very time consuming and tedious. Is there any way to get the Adobe software to recognize the "human" numbers in ascended order? Any help with this would be GREATLY appreciated.

This involves using a photoeditor with renaming capabilities such as ACDSee OR using the command-line (Run>cmd.exe) from the Start menu. For the command line you would type "help for" and a help file for the "for" command would come up. With "for" you can run an iterative loop that would cycle through your files based on certain characteristics and based on the variables you pass it you would be able to renumber your files from 1.tif to 001.tif and 10.tif to 010.tif for example. Numbers 1-9 would be in one for loop, numbers 10-99 would be in another, and if you had to rename for files going into the thousands you would use 100-999 as another for loop, renumbering to a 0100.tif naming convention. That is called "padding" your file names.

Similar Messages

Numbers still unable to sort large files

It only took about 30 seconds to discover Numbers 09 still does not have the capability to sort large files (10,000+ rows by 15 columns). I originally thought I had discovered a workaround but that fizzled as well since it was a "one shot" with all subsequent attempts getting the spinning beach ball even though the single column sort showed properly just before the beach ball. I posted several "Problem notices" after having to force quit every time I used 09. Since this would be the only reason for me to upgrade to 09 especially after having 08 only a couple of months I guess I will just have to put off thinking about it until there is a serious enough upgrade for my purposes.

Thanks for the information Ivan. However, I only have two formulas in the entire spreadsheet with one of them being just a counter (previous cell plus one) and the other determining the age of an individual from their date of birth and date of death.
I probably should have noted that I did get the sort to work one time albeit allowing the automatic feature to run its course between changing the column selections.
I.E.
Select the entire sheet except row one.
Click on Reorganize.
Click on Plus sign to bring up second selector > wait for automatic responses to complete.
(there were two separate "barometers" that came up with redisplay following each one.)
Click on first column selector and select D > wait for automatic responses and redisplays.
Click on second column selector and select C > wait for automatic responses and redisplays.
It looks like I made an assumption here that may not be true - that the TEAM had access to the problem reports where all this was spelled out in detail along with several attempts afterwards that would fail (Spinning beachball) after the first selection and redisplay regardless of whether there were one or two selectors in the sort popup.
BB

How to combine a few PDF files into one with Adobe reader?

how to combine a few PDF files into one with Adobe reader?

Hi aho,
You would need either Acrobat (link to free 30 day trial) or our PDF Pack subscription service to perform that task.
What can I do with Reader?
Let me know if you have further questions!
Regards, Stacy

Adobe Flash FAIL: Adobe Flash Player local storage settings incorrect. Module 'Resume' feature may not work on this computer.

Using a Windows 2012 RDS Environment, we have users connecting to a CPD website, and as part of the CPD they need to run a systems checker. When they run the systems checker they get the following error message: "Adobe Flash FAIL: Adobe Flash Player local storage settings incorrect. Module 'Resume' feature may not work on this computer". All users are connecting to this environment with Windows CE Clients,I have checked the setting on Adobe Flash and they seem correct but as each user has its own profile on the RDS session, is there something that I should be setting for each user. I have added the website to the trusted sites and it has made no difference. Any ideas

It sounds like what's happening is that Flash Player can't write or read from the local shared objects in the user's redirected home directory because we disallow traversing junctions in the broker process. This behavior was disabled to address a vulnerability identified in some of John Forshaw's research into the IE broker last year.
You can enable this behavior by adding the following setting to mms.cfg:
EnableInsecureJunctionBehavior=1
That said, you can probably gather from the name of the flag that we don't really recommend this approach, and disable this attack surface by default. There's some risk that a network attacker could craft content that abuses fundamental issues with how Windows handles Junctions to write to arbitrary locations.
Unfortunately, there's not a simple or easy workaround that I'm aware of (but it's been ages since I've administered a Windows domain) for this kind of NAS/SAN-backed terminal server environment where Flash is not able to access \Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\ without traversing a junction.

Sorting .Mov files in Adobe Premiere Elements 10

I have imported all my .MOV files into Adobe PE 10. How do I sort them by date order so I can make the film in chronological order?
It is strange because all my .Mov files are ordered by date in Adobe Premiere 10 Organizer - but then in Adobe PE 10, I can only sort by file length or name...? this seems a bit strange when I am trying to make a chronological family movie. Am I missing something?
Thanks
Alana

While there are some possibilities for sorting on MetaData in PrPro's Project Panel, the handling of Time/Date shot differs so much by the camera used, that most complain that it does not work, as they would like it to, so not really much better, if at all.
To get an idea of the problems encountered, I would do a Search of the PrPro CS 6 Forum, for "date," and read some of those threads.
Good luck,
Hunt

How can I make Sort by File Name the default in Adobe Bridge CS5?

The only online support I have found so far avoids the specific question. Must I assume that Sort by File Name cannot be made the default - and will revert to Manual each time I close Bridge?

If you have "start bridge at login checked" your changes will not keep unless you close program by clicking on File then Exit. Just closing window does not exit program.
Option is in advanced preferences.

I need a clear answer - can files be sorted by file name in pse8.

I have looked everywhere in pse8 and cannot find a way to sort my pictures by file name. I cannot believe Adobe would have left this capability out of the program. I have saved my pictures with sequential file numbering. I would appreciate a clear answer so I can quit messing with this. Thanks much..

First and foremost, I must have the ability to sort by file name across folders. If PSE8 cannot do it, what's another product can do it? My friend, an expert user initially recommended me to Bridge but I haven't been able to buy or download Bridge alone, what is my best option to have that kind of sort capability without spending an arm and a leg to get that plus a bunch of other features that I don't need.
Look forward to your answer, many thanks in anticipation.

Virtual Copies, Stacking & Sort by File Name

The scenario is as follows...
I create a Virtual Copy of an image (Original & VC automatically stacked)
The file is sorted based on the File Name of the Original file.
I now move the Virtual Copy to the top of the stack.
The file has been moved to the very beginning of the sort list!!!???
Sort by File Name no longer works as expected even though the VC and the Original have the same file name.
This behaviour is the same whether the stack is collapsed or expanded.
File returns to correctly ordered sort position when Original is moved back to the top of the stack.
Does anybody have an explanation for this?

Where do I submit Lightroom bug reports?
http://www.adobe.com/support/photoshoplightroom/
Click on "bug and feature request" near the bottom of the page.
Sid
The LightroomExtra home page is right here.

One numbers file keeps updating and i can't access it even on icloud.

I tried reinstalling numbers aplication syncing with icloud but this is permanent.
Last time i had use it i was sharing the file sending an email as an xml file.
How can i get my file back in use?
Thank you

Hi eruderu
Thanks for your post. It set me searching again, as I had the same problem. And contrary to "most of us" I occasionally do use Numbers on Mac and Pad. It appears the problem is not with iOS. Files are uploaded smoothly from the Pad to the Cloud. The problem then is to download it from the Cloud to the Mac.
And contrary to what Apple seems to suggest, this is not quite seemless. So it appears to be a Numbers/ OSX issue and not iOS.
The solution I found on the support site was to connect the iPad via USB to the Mac and sync. In which case you may just as well disable iCloud for Number, unless you have more than one iOS machine.
There appears to be another way to sync it, which comes halfway to the "seemless", as it does not require the USB connection.. It is presented as a sort of afterthought. http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/documents.html)
1. go to http://www.icloud.com/iwork and sign in with your iTunes account.
2. go to the Numbers file.
3 access any file synced from your iOS machine, or drop the file from your iMac that you want to sync.
Presumably the same goes for Pages and Keynote.
Hope this helps.
Harm Prop

Sample Applescript: scraping values from numbers files into a master file

Hi, I have programming experience in c and other languages, but am new to applescript and so am learning a lot from this forum.
My goal is to make a timesheet system for my Dad (for a bday present) where every time he helps a client, he fills out a newly created numbers file - and after a week or so, he can run a script that scrapes certain values from each numbers file and places it into a master numbers file. Then saving and closing the file.
Vince, it sounds like you've written a script that does this feature of looping through all numbers files in a folder and putting select values from each numbers file into a master numbers file (after clearing the previous values of the master file).
Specifically, I'm looking for a sample script that opens up a numbers file, clears its table, then fills this table by scraping one value from a particular cell in every numbers file in a folder.
If anyone has a similar script they would be willing to post or email to me, for me to use as a foundation and to learn from, I would be very very very grateful. My email is forman.jq at gmail dot com.

I guess that this script may be a good starting point.
--[SCRIPT fromfolder_2spreadsheet1]
The target spreadsheet must be open at front and must contain the sheet sheet_destination which much contain the table table_destination.
Choose the folder supposed to store the source sopreadsheets.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
2010/08/18
--=====
(* Edit these height properties to fit your needs *)
property destination : "destinationDoc.numbers"
property sheet_destination : "destination"
property table_destination : "insert here"
property premierelignedestination : 2
property colonne_destination : 2
property ledossierhabituel : "Macintosh HD Maxtor:Users:yvan_koenig:Desktop:dossier habituel:"
property ligne_source : 2
property colonne_source : 2
--=====
on run
my activateGUIscripting()
Select the folder storing the spreadsheets from which we will extract values *)
set dossier_source to choose folder with prompt "Choose folder storing the Numbers documents…" default location (ledossierhabituel as alias)
Build a list of disk items available in the selected folder *)
tell application "System Events"
set les_elements to every disk item of folder (dossier_source as text) --whose (get type identifier) is in
set les_tableurs to {}
Extracts the list of the Numbers spreadsheets available in the selected folder *)
repeat with refsurelement in les_elements
if type identifier of refsurelement is in {"com.apple.iwork.numbers.numbers", "com.apple.iwork.numbers.sffnumbers"} then
copy path of refsurelement to end of les_tableurs
end if
end repeat
end tell -- System Events
if les_tableurs is {} then
No Numbers documents available so we stop the process. *)
set rapport to "The folder “" & dossier_source & "” doesn’t contain Numbers documents !"
else
set rapport to {}
end if
Check that the target Numbers document is open at front
and that it embed the defined sheet embedding the defined table. *)
tell application "Numbers"
activate
set existants to name of documents
if destination is not in existants then
copy "The document " & destination & " is not open !" to end of rapport
else
tell document destination
if sheet_destination is not in (name of sheets) then
copy "the sheet " & sheet_destination & " is unavailable in the document " & destination & " !" to end of rapport
else
tell sheet sheet_destination
if table_destination is not in (name of tables) then copy "The table " & table_destination & " is unavailable in the sheet " & sheet_destination & " of the document " & destination & " !" to end of rapport
end tell -- sheetSource
end if
end tell --document destination
end if
If target document is not at front or if it doesn't match the defined requirements,
we quit the process. *)
if rapport is not {} then error my recolle(rapport, return)
Clean the target table, minus row 1 supposed to be storing columns headers *)
tell document destination to tell sheet sheet_destination to tell table table_destination
set selection range to range ("A2 : " & name of last cell)
end tell --document destination
end tell -- Numbers
my selectMenu("Numbers", 4, 9) (* Suppress *)
set liste_valeurs to {}
tell application "Numbers"
repeat with un_tableur in les_tableurs
Open the spreadsheets and extract from each of them the wanted value *)
open un_tableur
tell document 1 to tell sheet 1 to tell table 1
set une_valeur to value of cell 2 of column 2
end tell
if une_valeur is 0.0 then
copy "empty" to end of liste_valeurs
else
copy une_valeur as text to end of liste_valeurs
end if
close document 1
end repeat
Now, it's time to insert the values in the target table *)
set ligne_destination to premierelignedestination
tell document destination to tell sheet sheet_destination to tell table table_destination
repeat with une_valeur in liste_valeurs
if not (exists row ligne_destination) then add row below last row
if une_valeur is not "empty" then
set value of cell ligne_destination of column colonne_destination to une_valeur
end if
set ligne_destination to ligne_destination + 1
end repeat
end tell -- document destination
save document destination
end tell -- Numbers
end run
--=====
on recolle(l, d)
local oTIDs, t
set oTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
set t to l as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oTIDs
return t
end recolle
--=====
on activateGUIscripting()
(* to be sure than GUI scripting will be active *)
tell application "System Events"
if not (UI elements enabled) then set (UI elements enabled) to true
end tell
end activateGUIscripting
--=====
my selectMenu("Pages",5, 12)
==== Uses GUIscripting ====
on selectMenu(theApp, mt, mi)
tell application theApp
activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process theApp to tell menu bar 1 to ¬
tell menu bar item mt to tell menu 1 to click menu item mi
end tell -- application theApp
end selectMenu
--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
I apologize, I'm too busy to write more explanations.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 18 août 2010 21:38:04

How can I open a Numbers file to the last cell used on from the previous saving of that file?

In Excel, the .xls file would always open on the the cell location where the file was previously saved. Very nice to have feature when the file is long ,so one does not have to keep scrolling down the page to make the next entry every time the file is opened.
Can Numbers do this? I can't find an option for it.
After opening a file, I must always scroll down to the last entry or where I want to start inputting data. What a pain.
Is there a way to open a numbers file to where one was located when it was previously saved?
Anybody know? Please help.
Thanks

CF,
When I Save a Numbers document with a cell Selected and then close the document, the same cell is still selected when I reopen the document. Isn't that what you are asking for? Furthermore, if I have chosen 100% zoom scale, the selected cell is displayed in the same screen position as when it was last saved. What you may be seeing that you don't care for is that if the zoom is other than 100% the table's position in the display window may be different than at the last Save.
Jerry

How to combine multiple purchased aac files into one aac file

I recently purchased in iTunes an album consisting of 16 m4a files. I ended up creating a playlist in iTunes for the songs. I would like to create one m4a file which combines all and then play it in iTunes. Is the copy protection preventing me from doing so?
I know how to convert m4a files that I have converted to mp3 and combine them using Terminal with a cat command. Then I import that combined file into iTunes. All is well in this case. I tried this with the 16 m4a files and I could not import the resultant mp3 file into iTunes.
Any way to combine multiple purchased aac files?

A simple way to accomplish the job, though not recommended is to print the 2 page file to a new PDF with multi-up (assuming you select vertical rather than horizontal locations) and adjust the paper in the Adobe PDF printer to be 8.5X22. At least you might give it a shot. Some variation, along with rotation possibly, might work.

My files no longer sort properly - files beginning with AEIOU come before

My files no longer sort properly - files beginning with AEIOU come first after numbers and special characters, then letters H, K, M-N, P, W, B-D and so on. I click on the column header again and it reverses the sort, but still messed up. This convoluted sort appears in all views. All the letters are grouped together, so all the "a"s, "e"s, etc are being sorted by some algorithm, but it's not alphabetical. I noticed it after installation of Snow Leopard, but it could have been that way before. I did a wipe and load and just imported user settings from Time Machine afterwards. Any suggestions on how I can fix this?

Usually, it is (1) a preference file located here
<user home folder>/Library/Preferences/
In this case, the problem is not just Finder if it also happens in Mail. Unfortunately, there are a lot of preference files.
Or it is (2) a background process that runs when you log in to your account. If it is something that starts automatically, it may be one of your Login Items. You can look at System Preferences Accounts pane +Login Items+ tab. That list shows processes that run when you log in to that account. If you see anything that you no longer need, you should remove it. Look for anything there that might, for whatever reason, change the alphabetical sort order.
Make sure English is selected as language in System Preferences +Language & Text+ pane. It seem improbable that it would not be, but I just noticed there is a setting at the bottom of that pane that says +Order of sorted lists+. Does that have something other than English ?

Acrobat 9 Standard Combine Feature Issue

Has anyone had an issue with "set new destination" appearing in the menu pulldown after combining pdf's in acrobat 9 standard using the combine feature?
I use the combine into a single pdf feature to build manuals. These manuals are often updated and I need to reassign a bookmark to a new page. With past versions (i.e. version 6 which didn't have the combine feature), I was able to move to the new page, right click on the bookmark, and select "set new destination"
Funny thing is abobe's help files tell me to do that or go to the bookmark options icon and select "set new destination" but you can't select something that is not there.
This only happens with pdf files that I combined using this combine feature in version 9. I can bring up old manuals in version 9 and find this selection "set new detination" available when I right click on the bookmark.
Any help would be appreciated
HC88

My mistake it is "set destination" in standard not "set new bookmark" as I orginally stated. I see this option only when I go to a previously built book or I manually create bookmarks in version 9. The issue I have is I don't see "set destination" when I use the "combine" (merge files into a single pdf) feature in acrobat 9 to build the book. It seems like it doesn't recognize them the same way as building them manually. I have a friend that has Pro. He is going to run a test for me. I'll let you know how it turns out.
He also thought it might have something to do with tagged verses not tagged bookmarks and that this combine feature maybe combining them as tagged bookmarks. Neither one of us knows much about tagged bookmarks so we weren't sure.

Why do my numbers files not email properly?

Disclaimer: I'm fairly computer savvy and have a good amount of experience in using Numbers (mostly Numbers'09).
I've recently encountered a new problem when emailing numbers (.numbers) files.
They are not coming through correctly.
This may be a "new" issue with the recent upgrade from Numbers'09 but I'm not sure since I have not had the need to send a numbers doc from one person/computer to another since the update to the new version of Numbers.
Here's what happens:
The file sends with no problem. I'm able to receive the file with no problem.
I CANNOT OPEN the numbers document.
When i receive the document it is not coming in the full size. For example: A document that is actually 324K in size is only being received as 8K.
- I am unable to preview the document.
- It appears to have no data
In an attempt to self-solve the problem - I saved the file that I'm attempting to send as a "Numbers 09" version. I was able to send and open this successfully.
The computer that I'm on/sending to/opening in, is running the current version and the SAME version of numbers as the other computer (version 3.2).
I'm quite confused and have not been able to find a solution on my own.
If anyone has run into this, has an idea or has a solution it would be HUGELY appreciated!
Thanks in advance for ANY and ALL feedback and support.

Hi John,
I don't really want to switch my method of filing simply for sharing purposes.
Perhaps a solution for now could be to revert a document to Numbers '09 before emailing?
When Numbers 3.0 was released in November 2013, many people were stunned that a so-called upgrade had lost so many features. But slowly (through this forum working together) it became clear that Apple had provided several safety-nets.
- Numbers 3 did not replace Numbers '09 on any computer. Numbers '09 was moved to a folder named iWork '09 inside the Applications folder. It still works on OS X Mavericks just as it always did on previous versions of OS X.
Numbers 3 did not replace the icon on the Dock. That icon continues to point to Numbers '09.
Wayne Contello has written a User Tip for working with the old and new versions of iWork:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6991
- Documents and templates created in Numbers '09 will carry many of the "lost" features into Numbers 3.
- A document "stolen" by Numbers 3 can not be opened in Numbers '09. Numbers 3 has Menu > File > Export To > Numbers '09... to revert that document. However, reverting a document created in Numbers 3 will not magically install lost Numbers '09 features. They are gone (for now).
- Numbers '09 and Numbers 3 run happily together at the same time. Just be sure which version you use when opening a document. Use Menu > File > Open or Menu > File > Open Recent.
With each update (Numbers 3.0 to 3.01, 3.1 and now 3.2) many features have been restored. They may now live under a different menu, button, or Inspector (Format Panel).
This forum has helped me and other users to find out where our cheese is now:
Who Moved My Cheese?
http://www.spencerjohnson.com/Book-WhoMovedMyCheese.html
Regards,
Ian.

Adobe Combine Feature - Sorts numbered files incorrectly

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for