User Guide

ARTS PDF Split Pro™ Guide
Assistant
5.2. Managing Coordinate Files
5.2.1. Creating a New Coordinate File
To create a coordinate file:
1. Open a PDF document in Adobe Acrobat.
2. Click the 'Create a new CRD file' button on the ARTS PDF Split Pro™ Assistant
toolbar. You can alternatively go to 'Plug-ins > ARTS PDF Split Pro Assistant >
New' in the Adobe Acrobat plug-ins menu.
The ‘Rectangle Tool’ button is now automatically activated enabling you to draw a
rectangle on your PDF page.
3. With the ‘Rectangle Tool’ button activated, drag a box over the area on the page
that contains the text you wish to apply a command to.
4. The 'Rectangle Tool Properties' window will now appear. Select the command you
wish to use for the rectangle and enter any parameters required. A full list of
available
Rectangle Commands can be found in Appendix A of this document.
5. Click ‘OK’. This command is now set to the rectangle currently selected.
6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for every command you wish to add to the coordinate file.
7. Save the coordinate file.
Figure 3. ‘Create a new CRD file’ toolbar button
Note: There is no limit to the number of rectangle commands within a coordinate file. If you wish
to apply several commands to the same text on a page you can do so by creating another
rectangle over the top of the existing one.
5.2.2. Activating the Rectangle Tool
ARTS PDF Split Pro™ allows the user to split PDF files based on the text that appears on
the pages throughout a PDF document. The rectangle tool is used to select which text on
the page will be used for splitting the file.
Figure 4. ‘Activate Rectangle Tool’ toolbar button
To activate or deactivate the rectangle tool, do one of the following:
• Select ‘Activate Rectangle Tool’ from the ARTS PDF Split Pro™ Assistant menu-
item,
• Click on the ‘Activate the Rectangle Tool’ button located in the ARTS PDF Split
Pro™ Assistant toolbar.
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