: Setting up a batch action in Acrobat for adding a barcode footer to a PDF file? I'll make a point to be as detailed as I can with this. My company does sublimation printing for retail items.

@Pierce403

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I'll make a point to be as detailed as I can with this. My company does sublimation printing for retail items. To make sure items are correctly identified on the production table, each item has to have a barcode added to it, along with its file name - which has to be mirrored since our printing software mirrors images for the sublimation printing process (the barcode doesn't need mirroring). We had previously done this by using a photoshop batch action that added an additional 1 inch of white space at the bottom of the file, then created the barcode and filename using javascript set up to create text layers based on the file's naming structure. It would align the barcode to the lower right corner, and center the file name as well.

Now, we've moved beyond using JPEGs for sublimation printing because PDFs tend to work better with our printing software. The only issue being is that I've been unable to replicate the previously mentioned batch action in Acrobat (we're still using Acrobat 9 Pro, as well), since I little to no experience setting up batch actions in Acrobat.

Is there a way to set up a batch action that would do what our Photoshop version did? I know it's possible to add a barcode to a PDF via a Javascript action, but in our case, it needs to be in a very specific place in the layout.

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