Hi Selim,
I don't know why it's triggering an alert as a virus. If anyone knows a better way I could save the file so that doesn't happen, please let me know. Currently I just compress the text file with a .js suffix inside a zip archive - there should only be one file "find replace annot tx.js" in there.
The file makes no permanent changes to either PDFX-Change or your computer. If you make the JavaScripts folder, and put the javascript file (extracted from the zip) in there, it will run when PDFX-Change starts up to create the menu item.
If you just want to test it, you can copy and paste from below into the Javascript console on PDFX-Change (CTRL-J) and run it from there: In that case you should run it
without any document open or it will add the menu item, but it will only work with the current open document (you'll have to quit and restart to do the same on a different document).
Once the v1.2 tool has been run, PDFX-Change will save the last used search terms to a file GlobData, so if you want to remove absolutely everything, you'd also delete that file too.
- Mathew.
This is the entire script:
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/* add a find/replace menu item
v1.2 Mar 15, 2024 case sensitive option, save searches
v1.1 Mar 14, 2024 replace also on popups
v1.0 Mar 14, 2024 Initial release
*/
app.addMenuItem( {
cName: "findReplaceAnnTx",
cUser: "Find/Replace…",
cParent: "Edit",
nPos: 21, // after Find... in the Edit menu. The position could easily be wrong!
//cEnable: "event.rc = (event.target != null);",
cExec: 'replaceAnnotTx.run(this)'}
);
// using a generic object
var replaceAnnotTx = {
SAVE_LENGTH : 10, // Number of search terms to save
dialog: {
data:{},
initialize: function (dialog) {
let def = this.data;
if ( !Object.keys(def).length ) {
def = { "ftxt": "", "rtxt": "", "usRE": false, "casS": false };
} else {
["ftxt","rtxt"].forEach( i => def[i] = this.dd( def[i] ));
}
dialog.load( def );
},
commit:function (dialog) { // called when OK pressed
this.data = dialog.store();
},
// make dropdown object
dd:function(arr) {
let ob = { "":1 }; // blank as selected item
if (! Array.isArray(arr))
arr = [arr];
for (let i in arr) {
ob[arr[i]] = -2-i;
}
return ob;
},
description: {
name: "Find & Replace", // Dialog box title
align_children: "align_left",
elements:
[
{
type: "cluster",
name: "Search and Replace expressions",
align_children: "align_left",
elements:
[
{
type: "view",
align_children: "align_row",
elements:
[
{
type: "static_text",
name: "Find:",
alignment: "align_right",
width:50
},
{
item_id: "ftxt",
type: "edit_text",
PopupEdit: true,
alignment: "align_left",
width:300
}
]
},
{
type: "view",
align_children: "align_row",
elements:
[
{
type: "static_text",
name: "Replace:",
alignment: "align_right",
width:50
},
{
item_id: "rtxt",
type: "edit_text",
PopupEdit: true,
alignment: "align_left",
width:300
}
]
},
{
type: "check_box",
name: "Regular Expression",
//char_width: 25,
item_id: "usRE"
},
{
type: "check_box",
name: "Case Sensitive",
//char_width: 25,
item_id: "casS"
},
]
},
{
alignment: "align_right",
type: "ok_cancel",
ok_name: "Ok",
cancel_name: "Cancel"
}
]
}
},
// *** run the dialog ***
run: function(t) {
// load globals
let globals = this.global.get();
Object.assign(this.dialog.data, globals);
if ("ok" == app.execDialog(this.dialog)) {
console.println( this.doReplace( t, this.dialog.data ));
// save the data
this.global.set( this.mkArrays( globals ) );
} else {
return "User Cancelled";
}
},
// save the search data as arrays
mkArrays: function ( gData ) {
let setObs = ["ftxt","rtxt"]; // fields to make into arrays
let newData = this.dialog.data; // assume this has been initialized
// build arrays
if (gData) {
for (let i of setObs) {
let arr = gData[i];
if (arr) {
if ( !Array.isArray(arr) )
arr = [ arr ];
// the dialog returns a string from PopupEdit in newData[i]
if ( -1 == arr.indexOf( newData[i] ) ) {
newData[i] = [newData[i]].concat( arr );
} else {
// it's already in there, so just save previous version
newData[i] = arr;
}
// newData[i] is now an array
if ( newData[i].length > this.SAVE_LENGTH )
newData[i] = newData[i].slice(0,this.SAVE_LENGTH);
}
}
}
return newData;
},
doReplace: function( t, results ) {
let fSrc = results["ftxt"];
if ( "" == fSrc) return "Nothing to change"; // don't search for empty string
// build regex
let useRex = results["usRE"];
// this is a bit messy because if there are actually regex expressions, it will still use them
fSrc = useRex ? fSrc : fSrc.replace(/([\.\(\)\\\|\[\]\{\}\+\-\*\$\^\,\?])/g,"\\$1");
let caseSens = results["casS"] ? "":"i";
let fRE = new RegExp(fSrc,"g" + caseSens );
let reTx = results["rtxt"]; //useRex ? results["rtxt"] : results["rtxt"].replace(/\$/g,'\\$');
// Step through all pages and replace
// try to get selected annotations
let anns = t.selectedAnnots;
// if nothing selected, get all annotations
if (0==anns.length)
anns = t.getAnnots();
let replacements = 0;
for (let ann of anns){
let aProps = ann.richContents;
// maybe use aProps.reduce( (a,i) => a+i.text,'') on the rich text before the find replace?
// a possible solution: http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/replacing-text-in-the-dom-solved/
// uses an index on the joined text for each match, which then is replaced sequentially on the elements
if (aProps.length>0) {
// working with rich contents
let changed = false;
for (let i=0; i<aProps.length; i++) {
if (aProps[i] && fRE.test(aProps[i].text)) {
aProps[i].text = aProps[i].text.replace(fRE,reTx);
changed = true;
replacements++;
}
}
if (changed) ann.richContents = aProps;
} else {
// no rich contents
aProps = ann.contents;
if (aProps && fRE.test(aProps)){
aProps=aProps.replace(fRE,reTx);
ann.contents = aProps;
replacements++;
}
}
}
return "Replaced in "+replacements+" locations.";
}
}
// Add trusted functions to access global variables
replaceAnnotTx.global = new class {
constructor(name) {
this.get = app.trustedFunction(() => {
app.beginPriv();
try{
if ( global[name] )
return JSON.parse( global[name] );
}catch{
console.println("Error accessing global variable '"+name+"'. Try:\n either uncheck 'Enable global object security policy',\n or (preferably) edit the file 'GlobData': Delete the line that begins with /D after the line \n/"+name+" <<");
}});
this.set = app.trustedFunction( value => {
app.beginPriv();
try{
global[name] = JSON.stringify( value );
global.setPersistent( name, true);
}catch{}});
}
}("FindReplaceGlobalVals")
I wanted to drag and place on the toolbar. It does not show up on the list. See image. Is there any way I can do this? Because I work with many documents and heavily I have to optimize and every shortcut key and every icon I place on the toolbar counts into productivity.
