Adobe 0046100128056 - InDesign - Mac - Exporting Individual Pages to PDF

CHAPTER 3: Documents Exporting a Document as PDF 47
with(app.pdfExportPreferences){
//pageRange can be either PageRange.allPages or a page range string
//(just as you would enter it in the Print or Export PDF dialog box).
pageRange = "1, 3-6, 7, 9-11, 12";
}
var myPDFExportPreset = app.pdfExportPresets.item("prepress")
app.activeDocument.exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, File("/c/myTestDocument.pdf"),
false, myPDFExportPreset);
Exporting individual pages to PDF
The following script exports each page from a document as an individual PDF file. (For the complete script,
see ExportEachPageAsPDF.)
//Display a "choose folder" dialog box.
if(app.documents.length != 0){
var myFolder = Folder.selectDialog ("Choose a Folder");
if(myFolder != null){
myExportPages(myFolder);
}
}
else{
alert("Please open a document and try again.");
}
function myExportPages(myFolder){
var myPageName, myFilePath, myFile;
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var myDocumentName = myDocument.name;
var myDialog = app.dialogs.add();
with(myDialog.dialogColumns.add().dialogRows.add()){
staticTexts.add({staticLabel:"Base name:"});
var myBaseNameField = textEditboxes.add({editContents:myDocumentName,
minWidth:160});
}
var myResult = myDialog.show({name:"ExportPages"});
if(myResult == true){
var myBaseName = myBaseNameField.editContents;
//Remove the dialog box from memory.
myDialog.destroy();
for(var myCounter = 0; myCounter < myDocument.pages.length;
myCounter++){
myPageName = myDocument.pages.item(myCounter).name;
app.pdfExportPreferences.pageRange = myPageName;
//The name of the exported files will be the base name + the
//page name + ".pdf".
//If the page name contains a colon (as it will if the
//document contains sections),
//then remove the colon.
var myRegExp = new RegExp(":","gi");
myPageName = myPageName.replace(myRegExp, "_");
myFilePath = myFolder + "/" + myBaseName + "_" + myPageName + ".pdf";
myFile = new File(myFilePath);
myDocument.exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, myFile, false);
}
}
else{
myDialog.destroy();
}
}