[AS][CS4] Change print job name

Hi,

By "print job name" I mean the print job name as you can see in any print queue after the job is printed. By default, this is the document name. Currently I'm using a small script to the print a file page by page. Unfortunately, the name in the print queue stays the same. As a work around, I could open the file, print the first page, close the file, rename the file, open it again, print it, closed it again, rename it again, open it, etc...

It would be faster if I could define a print job name.... Changing the job name in the meta info doesn't work.

Does anyone know how I can do this using Applescript?

Kind regards

John

John,

There is a job name property that is part of the metadata preferences you can set for a file. To set metadata preferences, you can use the following snippet as a guide.

set metaKeys to {"test", "metadata"}

set metaURL to missing value --replacre missing value with your copyright info URL

set mNotice to "Copyrighted 2012 myName"

--establish value for job name here

set mJobName to "MyJobName"

set mAuthor to "Author Name"

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"

  try

  set docRef to document 1

  set docTitle to name of docRef

  tell metadata preferences of docRef

  set copyright notice to mNotice

  set copyright status to yes

  set document title to docTitle

  set author to mAuthor

                              --here is where the job name is being set

  set job name to mJobName

  if metaKeys is not missing value then set keywords to metaKeys

  if metaURL is not missing value then set copyright info URL to metaURL

  end tell

  end try

end tell

Hope this helps.

John, where are you seeing this print job name?