Scripting – Remember PDF export preferences and save them as a new preset

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Hi all!

I've been trying my best to figure this one out but so far no success. I'm working on a script where the user can export a PDF from an open InDesign file and then the remaining openend InDesign files get exported with the same preferences. Is there a way to "remember" all the preferences of the export and the save them as a preset? I currently don't see a way around having to save attribute separately, which frankly sounds dreadful. Any ideas are much appreciated!

brian_p_dts · Accepted Answer

What's your current code? All export properties are available as app.PDFExportPreferences.properties

You can add Export presets on the fly with app.PDFExportPresets.add({your property pairs})

You can map export properties to preset properties. Pseudocode is:

for prop in exportPref properties, if preset has own property that matches, try/catch to add the value

Realistically, the export preferences should not change if set during the first export. Just don't use a preset for subsequent exports in your exportFile call.

Laubender · Answer

And: You could store the object {your property pairs} with all the property/value pairs as string with a label. For that see into methods insertLabel("keyString","valueString") and extractLabel("keyString") with the document object or even the application object; or you write them to a text file followed by method doScript() to execute a string as script out of the extracted label or the file you saved. Regards,Uwe Laubender( ACP )

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