CS4 Multi Artboards (ie: 5 pages) need to be split 5 different ai files

[CarlosCanto]

I didn't think it was going to be that difficult to go from VBA to JS (not having a clue on JS). Here's my first JS script to help with this question. It should work for CS4.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/726864?tstart=0

//splits the activeDocument Artboards into individual files

var doc = app.activeDocument;

var docName = doc.name;
var docPath = doc.path;
var fullName = docPath + "/" + docName;
var abRange = ""

for (i=1; i<=doc.artboards.length;i++)
    {
        abRange = abRange + i + ","
     }
IllustratorSaveOptions.saveMultipleArtboards = true;
IllustratorSaveOptions.artboardRange = abRange;
 
 var newFile = new File(fullName);
 app.activeDocument.saveAs (newFile, IllustratorSaveOptions);
 
 alert ("Artboards Saved to current document's Folder", "Split Arboards");

[Jongware]

Carlos:

artboardRange

string

r/w

If SaveMultipleArtboards is true (Which is valid for AI 13 or earler saves only),this will be considered for multi-asset extraction which specifies artboard range.Empty string will extracts all the artboards.Default is empty string.

(my emphasis). So you can probably do with just this:

IllustratorSaveOptions.artboardRange = "";

[CarlosCanto]

that's correct, I didn't try to test it with empty string before. Only difference I found using empty string is it Re-saves the Active Document too (with all artboards) (and also asks if it is ok to overwrite) + all separate files.

thanks for pointing that out.