Question
Tweaking the SaveDocsAsPDF script
Hello. Absolute scripting newbie here; will someone take pity...?
I am looking at the SaveDocsAsPDF script. It works for our purposes except I would like it to save PDFs using a Preset we created called "SGS PDFs. (We have trouble with people in our office forgetting to choose this setting, so I thought a script might be the answer.)
I found a posting on this forum where someone wanted to save files as small as possible, and got some clues from that. So I left everything as is in the original script, except I added this first line in the function:
{var NamePreset = '[SGS PDFs]';
Then after the line:
var options = new PDFSaveOptions();
I added:
options.PDFPreset=NamePreset;
I thought this would result in a script that does the same thing I now do "manually". However, if I save my document "manually" using File/Save As/ Adobe PDF, and choosing the SGS PDFs preset (and changing nothing else), I get a 716 KB file. But if I use my script, I get a 4.9 MB file. So it appears that what I added is NOT making the script use my preset settings.
So my question is: Is there something REALLY basic missing from my script, or... In order to get a script that accomplishes everything already determined in the Preset, do I manually have to list all those settings as options?
I think I can do the latter if I need to if I just study some of the other scripts... unless there's a shortcut!
I am looking at the SaveDocsAsPDF script. It works for our purposes except I would like it to save PDFs using a Preset we created called "SGS PDFs. (We have trouble with people in our office forgetting to choose this setting, so I thought a script might be the answer.)
I found a posting on this forum where someone wanted to save files as small as possible, and got some clues from that. So I left everything as is in the original script, except I added this first line in the function:
{var NamePreset = '[SGS PDFs]';
Then after the line:
var options = new PDFSaveOptions();
I added:
options.PDFPreset=NamePreset;
I thought this would result in a script that does the same thing I now do "manually". However, if I save my document "manually" using File/Save As/ Adobe PDF, and choosing the SGS PDFs preset (and changing nothing else), I get a 716 KB file. But if I use my script, I get a 4.9 MB file. So it appears that what I added is NOT making the script use my preset settings.
So my question is: Is there something REALLY basic missing from my script, or... In order to get a script that accomplishes everything already determined in the Preset, do I manually have to list all those settings as options?
I think I can do the latter if I need to if I just study some of the other scripts... unless there's a shortcut!
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