Export as seperate PDFs, BUT keep same last page

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April 3, 2018
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Say I have an 8 page indd file. The first 7 are different versions of the same front. The 8th page is a common back to all 7 versions. Is there an easy way to export these into 7 different 2 page pdfs all containing the same back? I'm currently exporting as 1 pdf, then in Acrobat extracting page 1+8, renaming and saving, extracting 2+8, renaming and saving, and so on. It doesn't come up everyday, but often enough I'd like to streamline better if I could.

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Correct answer Laubender

Hi Bill,

good idea.

One could also do:

1,8,2,8,3,8,4,8,5,8,6,8,7,8

and split the PDF later with Acrobat Pro DC.

Regards,
Uwe

winterm

Legend

Well, if you do it quite often, you may consider a simple script. Here's a sample for first two pairs: 1 and 8, 2 and 8 pdfs:

app.pdfExportPreferences.pageRange = "1,8"
app.pdfExportPreferences.viewPDF = false;
app.activeDocument.exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, File("~/desktop/Test/1.pdf"), false, "Prepress");
app.pdfExportPreferences.pageRange = "2,8"
app.pdfExportPreferences.viewPDF = false;
app.activeDocument.exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, File("~/desktop/Test/2.pdf"), false, "Prepress");
        alert( "Pairs exported" )

Three lines for each PDF. You need to write in correct (existing) PDF Preset name (mine is Prepress), path for PDFs to save (mine is ~/desktop/Test). Duplicate lines as many times as you need, adjust pageRange and filename for each.

Yeah, this may look a bit cumbersome, if you're new to scripting. However, if you're going to save pdfs to the same place by the same scheme again and again... worth to bother, imho.

B

Brian BranhamAuthor

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Unfortunately, I'll never be saving to the same folder and the number of versions is never the same. I guess I could export to a folder on the desktop and cut+paste to the correct location and just save new scripts as new version numbers come up, but that sounds clunky for my particular situation. I will keep those script lines in thought for some other purposes.