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Posted on by 2,407 Super User 2024 Season 1

I'm new to this, so there is probably an easy answer. I'm trying to set up a flow to extract pages from a PDF. I get PDF files that contain 40-50 pages and need to save them as individual pages. I tried using the recorder to capture the actions, but it always fails because Acrobat uses the PDF name in the window title. I do not see any way to edit the window title to extract the UI element. I also do not see a way to put in a manual (non-recorded) action to accomplish this. 

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    667 on at

    Hi @BrianS 

     

    You can change it by editing the UI Selector:

    Select the window you want to edit

    tkuehara_1-1626274277343.png

    Your window will probably have the PDF name:

    tkuehara_3-1626274421613.png

    Here you can change the selector to a more generic one. Example: name contains ".pdf"

    tkuehara_4-1626274540501.png

     

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    2,407 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Thanks - took me a bit to find that, but it worked great. I also realized that since I put a file selector before that the mouse click for that was confusing the window selection

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