Help with the Save as PDF Sample Script

[Red_JaK]

I've looked through the community and can't seem to find exactly what I'm looking for. I am trying to modify the Save as PDF sample script to allow me to use my own preset and basically just save the PDFs in the source folder without a bunch of the menu prompts. I found something relevant here https://xcorr.net/2010/05/12/batch-export-ai-files-to-pdf/ but whenever I try to edit the preset I get an error. If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it as it would help me with a huge project exporting hundreds of AI files. Thanks in advance!

[CarlosCanto · Accepted solution]

what kind of error are you getting?

preset is just another property of the pdfSaveOptions that when used, there's no need to set any other properties

/*********************************************************
 
getPDFOptions: Function to set the PDF saving options of the 
files using the PDFSaveOptions object.
 
**********************************************************/
 
function getPDFOptions()
{
    // Create the PDFSaveOptions object to set the PDF options
    var pdfSaveOpts = new PDFSaveOptions();
 
    // Setting PDFSaveOptions properties. Please see the JavaScript Reference
    // for a description of these properties.
    // Add more properties here if you like

    pdfSaveOpts.pDFPreset = 'preset name';

 
    return pdfSaveOpts;
}

[Red_JaK]

Carlos Thank you! That did the trick, I was putting the preset option in the wrong place per the instructions I read in the blog I referenced.

I wish I had taken a screen shot of the error but this looks like it took care of what I needed. Thank you again!

For anyone else looking for the same here is the script I used: 

/**********************************************************
 
ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED 
Copyright 2005-2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated 
All Rights Reserved 
 
NOTICE:  Adobe permits you to use, modify, and 
distribute this file in accordance with the terms
of the Adobe license agreement accompanying it.  
If you have received this file from a source 
other than Adobe, then your use, modification,
or distribution of it requires the prior 
written permission of Adobe. 
 
*********************************************************/
 
/**********************************************************
 
Export to PDFs.jsx
 
DESCRIPTION
 
This sample gets files specified by the user from the 
selected folder and batch processes them and saves them 
as PDFs.
 
Edits by Patrick Mineault:
 - only .ai files processed
 - files saved in same folder as the input files
 - export files have name (oldname)_export.pdf
 - PDF settings: non-editable / acrobatLayers=false 
      for maximum compatibility with Preview
 
**********************************************************/
 
// Main Code [Execution of script begins here]
 
// uncomment to suppress Illustrator warning dialogs
// app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DONTDISPLAYALERTS;
 
var destFolder, sourceFolder, files, fileType, sourceDoc, targetFile, pdfSaveOpts;
 
// Select the source folder.
sourceFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder with Illustrator .ai files you want to convert to PDF');
 
// If a valid folder is selected
if ( sourceFolder != null )
{
    files = new Array();
    fileType = "*.ai"; //prompt( 'Select type of Illustrator files to you want to process. Eg: *.ai', ' ' );
 
    // Get all files matching the pattern
    files = sourceFolder.getFiles( fileType );
 
    if ( files.length > 0 )
    {
        // Get the destination to save the files
        //destFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder where you want to save the converted PDF files.', '~' );
        destFolder = sourceFolder;
        for ( i = 0; i < files.length; i++ )
        {
            sourceDoc = app.open(files[i]); // returns the document object
 
            // Call function getNewName to get the name and file to save the pdf
            targetFile = getNewName();
 
            // Call function getPDFOptions get the PDFSaveOptions for the files
            pdfSaveOpts = getPDFOptions( );
 
            // Save as pdf
            sourceDoc.saveAs( targetFile, pdfSaveOpts );
 
            sourceDoc.close();
        }
        alert( 'Files are saved as PDF in ' + destFolder );
    }
    else
    {
        alert( 'No matching files found' );
    }
}
 
/*********************************************************
 
getNewName: Function to get the new file name. The primary
name is the same as the source file.
 
**********************************************************/
 
function getNewName()
{
    var ext, docName, newName, saveInFile, docName;
    docName = sourceDoc.name;
    ext = '_export.pdf'; // new extension for pdf file
    newName = "";
 
    for ( var i = 0 ; docName[i] != "." ; i++ )
    {
        newName += docName[i];
    }
    newName += ext; // full pdf name of the file
 
    // Create a file object to save the pdf
    saveInFile = new File( destFolder + '/' + newName );
 
    return saveInFile;
}
 
/*********************************************************
 
getPDFOptions: Function to set the PDF saving options of the 
files using the PDFSaveOptions object.
 
**********************************************************/
 
function getPDFOptions()
{
    // Create the PDFSaveOptions object to set the PDF options
    var pdfSaveOpts = new PDFSaveOptions();
 
    // Setting PDFSaveOptions properties. Please see the JavaScript Reference
    // for a description of these properties.
    // Add more properties here if you like
    // pdfSaveOpts.acrobatLayers = false;
    // pdfSaveOpts.colorBars = false;
    // pdfSaveOpts.colorCompression = CompressionQuality.None;
    // pdfSaveOpts.compressArt = false; //default
    // pdfSaveOpts.embedICCProfile = true;
    // pdfSaveOpts.enablePlainText = true;
    // pdfSaveOpts.generateThumbnails = true; // default
    // pdfSaveOpts.optimization = true;
    // pdfSaveOpts.pageInformation = false;
    // pdfSaveOpts.preserveEditability = false;
	pdfSaveOpts.pDFPreset = 'ERI';
 
    return pdfSaveOpts;
}

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