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Article #1490Export individual PDFs and save to a specified folder location?????
From: James_Leyland
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:40
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:40
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Export individual PDFs and save to a specified folder location?????
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Hey guys,
I was wondering if anyone knows of a way in which I can get Indesign CS3 to save to a specified location when exporting a PDF?
I am currently using a data merge prior to running my java script to export a set number of pages to individual PDFs, but i am struggling to get it to save these PDFs to a specified folder location.
The code I am using to export the PDFs looks like this:
var SectionLength = 4;
for (var p=0; p<app.activeDocument.pages.length; p += SectionLength)
{
var currentpage = app.activeDocument.pages[p];
var textframe = currentpage.textFrames.item("Company Name");
var companyname = textframe.contents;
var textframe2 = currentpage.textFrames.item("PDF Description");
var pdfdescription = textframe2.contents;
//alert(textframe.contents);
with(app.pdfExportPreferences)
{
if (p+SectionLength-1 > app.activeDocument.pages.length)
pageRange = app.activeDocument.pages[p].name+"-"+app.activeDocument.pages[app.activeDocument.pages.length-1].name;
else
pageRange = app.activeDocument.pages[p].name+"-"+app.activeDocument.pages[p+SectionLength-1].name;
theFile = new File(companyname+" - "+pdfdescription+".pdf");
app.activeDocument.exportFile (ExportFormat.pdfType, theFile, false);
}
}
Any help would be great as I'm new to this scripting stuff and can't quite get it too work.
Thanks very much for your help!
James
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