[Closed] more control for Edit > Select Picture Content?
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 6:56 pm
First let me begin with my usual disclaimer: I am not a power user---neither a graphics expert in general, nor a GC expert in particular---so it's possible I am simply lacking some basic information on the subject of Edit > Select Picture Content (SPC).
Quick aside: there may be a small possible error in the manual, for I read somewhere that as of version 9.1 SPC became a batch step...Crop Content is easy to find, but I could not find any SPC batch step anywhere (in either 9 or 10).
I wish there was a setting in the Preferences for the tolerance level of SPC. It might not solve my present problem, but it would surely be nice to have.
Here's my present problem:
I have a large number (>2000) of pdf pages with varying margins. In order to present these pages in a uniform manner I need to get the current margin data for later conversion. Happily, GC provides an easy way to do this:
Using keyboard-macro software (Keyboard Maestro),
1. Perform SPC.
2. Double-click the Selection Tool in the Toolbox to get the Selection window.
3. Paste the four data values into a text file containing other page data.
The only thing that is not working as well as hoped, is the initial SPC often gets hung up on tiny specks near the content. Whenever this happens I have to manually slide the selection frame in a bit to get across the invisible speck, then SPC again. The specks must be very tiny ones, because the second try almost always works.
Any suggestions on a workaround? Is there some batch action I could perform on the files that would give the SPC a better chance of ignoring tiny specks? Having to manually slide and re-SPC really slows things down a lot.
Quick aside: there may be a small possible error in the manual, for I read somewhere that as of version 9.1 SPC became a batch step...Crop Content is easy to find, but I could not find any SPC batch step anywhere (in either 9 or 10).
I wish there was a setting in the Preferences for the tolerance level of SPC. It might not solve my present problem, but it would surely be nice to have.
Here's my present problem:
I have a large number (>2000) of pdf pages with varying margins. In order to present these pages in a uniform manner I need to get the current margin data for later conversion. Happily, GC provides an easy way to do this:
Using keyboard-macro software (Keyboard Maestro),
1. Perform SPC.
2. Double-click the Selection Tool in the Toolbox to get the Selection window.
3. Paste the four data values into a text file containing other page data.
The only thing that is not working as well as hoped, is the initial SPC often gets hung up on tiny specks near the content. Whenever this happens I have to manually slide the selection frame in a bit to get across the invisible speck, then SPC again. The specks must be very tiny ones, because the second try almost always works.
Any suggestions on a workaround? Is there some batch action I could perform on the files that would give the SPC a better chance of ignoring tiny specks? Having to manually slide and re-SPC really slows things down a lot.