Javascript help for newbie

Question

Hi,
I have a 18x12 booklet form PDF (each PDF page consists of 2 9x12 images) that I need to split into single 9x12 pages.
Found 2 scripts on the net to split pages in Acrobat and the other one to reorder the split pages. (after splitting the pages one ends up with page 1, page 24, page 2, page 23, etc.) Need to reorder the pages and found the Reorder script below.
But it doesn't work in Acrobat 9 - I'm getting an illegal character error in line 20. (seems to be this line? nStart: i * 4 – 3).
I don't even get a menu item called Reorder Pages under Documents.
Help?
Script:
ReorderDocument = app.trustedFunction(function()
// create a new document
app.beginPriv();
var newDoc = app.newDoc();
app.endPriv();
// reorder pages in booklet order into new document in sequential order
var i = 0;
var n = this.numPages;
for (var i = 1; i <= n / 4; i++)
newDoc.insertPages( {
nPage: newDoc.numPages-1,
cPath: this.path,
nStart: i * 4 – 3,
nEnd: i * 4 – 2
newDoc.insertPages( {
nPage: newDoc.numPages – 1,
cPath: this.path,
nStart: n – 1
for (var i = 1; i 1)
newDoc.deletePages(0); // this gets rid of the page that was created with the newDoc call.
// add the menu item
app.addMenuItem({
cName: "reorderPagesJS", // this is the internal name used for this menu item
cUser: "Reorder Pages", // this is the label that is used to display the menu item
cParent: "Document", // this is the parent menu. The file menu would use "File"
cExec: "ReorderDocument()", // this is the JavaScript code to execute when this menu item is selected
cEnable: "event.rc = (event.target != null);", // when should this menu item be active?
nPos: 1

Answer 1

Hold on - just found another webpage with different code. This one seems to work now. Posting it here in case somebody else needs it: this script is to reshuffle pages are having split a booklet form PDF into separate pages:
ReorderDocument = app.trustedFunction(function()
// create a new document
app.beginPriv();
var newDoc = app.newDoc();
app.endPriv();
// reorder pages in booklet order into new document in sequential order
var i = 0;
var n = this.numPages;
for (var i = 1; i <= n / 4; i++)
newDoc.insertPages( {
nPage: newDoc.numPages-1,
cPath: this.path,
nStart: i * 4 - 3,
nEnd: i * 4 - 2
newDoc.insertPages( {
nPage: newDoc.numPages - 1,
cPath: this.path,
nStart: n - 1
for (var i = 1; i <= n / 4 - 1; i++)
newDoc.insertPages( {
nPage: newDoc.numPages - 1,
cPath: this.path,
nStart: n - i * 4
newDoc.insertPages( {
nPage: newDoc.numPages - 1,
cPath: this.path,
nStart: n - i * 4 - 1
newDoc.insertPages( {
nPage: newDoc.numPages - 1,
cPath: this.path,
nStart: 0
if (newDoc.numPages > 1)
newDoc.deletePages(0); // this gets rid of the page that was created with the newDoc call.
// add the menu item
app.addMenuItem({
cName: "reorderPagesJS", // this is the internal name used for this menu item
cUser: "Reorder Pages", // this is the label that is used to display the menu item
cParent: "Document", // this is the parent menu. The file menu would use “File”
cExec: "ReorderDocument()", // this is the JavaScript code to execute when this menu item is selected
cEnable: "event.rc = (event.target != null);", // when should this menu item be active?
nPos: 1