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Select objects in layers of a PDF depeding on layer's properties.

This Enfocus PitStop command allows us to select the content of a PDF document depending on the properties of the layers with which it is associated. There are six mutually exclusive possibilities:

  • "Optional": Content is part of a layer, regardless of its status. It is optional content.

  • "Not optional": The content is not part of a layer. It is not optional content

  • "By default visible": The layer is displayed by default (activated), the content is shown when the document is opened although at the time of running this list it may be hidden (not visible).

  • "By default invisible": The layer is hidden by default (not activated), although at the time of running this list it may be visible.

  • "Visible": The content associated with the layer can be seen at the moment of running list.

  • "Invisible": The content associated with the layer cannot be seen, it's hidden, at the moment of running the action.