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isaac_t
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November 12, 2013
Question

Script to batch export multiple Books (.indb) to PDF

  • November 12, 2013
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I have multiple InDesign Book files that I would like to batch export to PDFs, respectively. (Not looking to combine multiple books into a single PDF. Just a 1 to 1 PDF export for each Book file.)

In googling for an answer, I found Peter Kahrel's script for doing just this for other InDesign files, but it does not work for Books. http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/batch_convert.html

Does anyone know of a solution (paid or otherwise) for this process?  Opening up each Book and exporting to PDF from the ID menu takes quite a bit of time when doing this for several dozen files.

Looking forward to any discussion to come up with a solution if one can be found... Mr. Kahrel's javascript file is a binary js file, so it can't be modified as is, and other solutions I've found around the web don't clearly state that they work with Book files or not.

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INDD4
Inspiring
November 13, 2013

try below code

before run script close all indb file

var fileFilters = "InDesign:*.indb*";

var myFolder = Folder.selectDialog ("choose Folder", fileFilters, false);

var files = myFolder.getFiles("*.indb");

for(i = 0; i < files.length; i++)

    {

       var theDocument = app.open(File(files), true);

         with ( theDocument ) {

            alert ( theDocument.name)

             exportPdf(theDocument)

                }

   }

function exportPdf(theDocument)

{

      myFilePath = myFolder + "/" +  theDocument.name + "_" + ".pdf";

        myFile = new File(myFilePath);

          theDocument.exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, myFile, false, app.pdfExportPresets.item('[Smallest File Size]'));

theDocument.close(SaveOptions.no)

}

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