Macros in Acrobat (Changing "smart quotes" to straight quotes in PDF files)

Is there a way to do macros in Acrobat? We need a macro that will change all of the smart quotes in a pdf file to straight quotes so that they will convert properly when we create the final version of a form that goes to our Xerox printers. We have a macro in Word that does this, but aren't sure how to do it in Acrobat.
Thanks for the help!
Ken K. - 2191

This would be extremely advanced programming for Acrobat; there is
automation and something a bit like macros but it can't touch the page
contents. It would have to be a plug-in in C/C++, and it is
complicated by font encoding and subset issues.
The subset issue would probably be a killer. In many, perhaps most,
cases the PDF file that uses smart quotes will have a font that
includes ONLY the smart quotes, and left out the straight quotes
because they weren't needed.
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