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how to get a specific function to repeat through all artboards in a document?

Participant ,
Aug 12, 2017 Aug 12, 2017

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Greetings,

with my limited knowledge I've made (or rather clumsily hacked together) a script that I use for exporting proof pdf's from illustrator that will simply draw a rectangle with a thin stroke around my document and save a pdf, then delete the rectangle and resave the .AI file (this last part is just to speed things up, so I can keep working on my ai file afterwards).

This all works perfectly fine on a document with only one artboard, however the whole thing falls apart if I want to make a multipage pdf with more than one artboards.
I need it to do the same actions but instead of just drawing the rectangle once I want it to draw it around every artboard in my document.
I realise this is probably easily achieved by looping through my artboards I just don't know how to go about it.

I've included the script I'm using in full below, it probably has quite a few redundant bits here or there, but hopefully you can make sense of it 

var idoc = app.activeDocument; 

var width = idoc.width;

var height = idoc.height;

newCMYKColor = new CMYKColor;

newCMYKColor.black = 100;

newCMYKColor.cyan = 0;

newCMYKColor.magenta = 0;

newCMYKColor.yellow = 0;   

var CurrentPath = activeDocument.path;

var folderPDF = Folder(CurrentPath);

if(!folderPDF.exists) folderPDF.create();

var docName = app.activeDocument.name.match(/^.*[^.ai]/i);

var myDoc = app.activeDocument.name.match();

        if (folderPDF) {

            if ( app.documents.length > 0 ) {

                var destFile = new File(folderPDF + '/' + docName + "_HR");

                var sourceDoc = app.activeDocument;

               

                targetFile = getNewName();

                targetFileAI = getNewNameAI();

                pdfSaveOpts = getPDFOptions( );

                illustratorSaveOpts = getAIOptions();

   

                var rectangle = idoc.pathItems.rectangle(0, 0, width, height);

                rectangle.filled = false;

                rectangle.strokeColor = newCMYKColor;

                rectangle.strokeWidth = 1;

                sourceDoc.saveAs( targetFile, pdfSaveOpts );

                rectangle.remove()    

                sourceDoc.saveAs( targetFileAI, illustratorSaveOpts );

               

                }

            }

       

function getNewName()

{

    var ext, docName, newName, saveInFile, docName;

    docName = sourceDoc.name;

    ext = '_HR_CMYK_PROOF_nobleed.pdf';

    newName = "";       

    for ( var i = 0 ; docName != "." ; i++ )

    {

        newName += docName;

    }

    newName += ext;

    saveInFile = new File( folderPDF + '/' + newName );   

    return saveInFile;

}

function getNewNameAI()

{

    saveInFileAI = new File( folderPDF + '/' + sourceDoc.name );

    return saveInFileAI;

}

function getPDFOptions()

{

    var pdfSaveOpts = new PDFSaveOptions();

    pdfSaveOpts.pDFPreset = "Inferno Print File (no bleed)";

    return pdfSaveOpts;

}

function getAIOptions()

{

    var illustratorSaveOpts = new IllustratorSaveOptions();

    illustratorSaveOpts.pdfCompatible = false;

    return illustratorSaveOpts;

}

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Enthusiast , Aug 13, 2017 Aug 13, 2017

Not tested yet, but it should work

var idoc = app.activeDocument;

newCMYKColor = new CMYKColor;

newCMYKColor.black = 100;

newCMYKColor.cyan = 0;

newCMYKColor.magenta = 0;

newCMYKColor.yellow = 0;

var CurrentPath = activeDocument.path;

var folderPDF = Folder(CurrentPath);

if (!folderPDF.exists) folderPDF.create();

var docName = app.activeDocument.name.match(/^.*[^.ai]/i);

// "/^.*[^.ai]/" is strange, it will match all of the name.

// so above code =

// var docName = app.activeDocument.name;

// maybe you sho

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Aug 13, 2017 Aug 13, 2017

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Not tested yet, but it should work

var idoc = app.activeDocument;

newCMYKColor = new CMYKColor;

newCMYKColor.black = 100;

newCMYKColor.cyan = 0;

newCMYKColor.magenta = 0;

newCMYKColor.yellow = 0;

var CurrentPath = activeDocument.path;

var folderPDF = Folder(CurrentPath);

if (!folderPDF.exists) folderPDF.create();

var docName = app.activeDocument.name.match(/^.*[^.ai]/i);

// "/^.*[^.ai]/" is strange, it will match all of the name.

// so above code =

// var docName = app.activeDocument.name;

// maybe you should use /^.*(?=\.ai$)/

if (folderPDF) {

    if (app.documents.length > 0) {

        var destFile = new File(folderPDF + '/' + docName + "_HR");

        var sourceDoc = app.activeDocument;

        targetFile = getNewName();

        targetFileAI = getNewNameAI();

        pdfSaveOpts = getPDFOptions();

        illustratorSaveOpts = getAIOptions();

        var artboardRef = sourceDoc.artboards;

        var rectLayer = sourceDoc.layers.add(); // so all rectangles will add to this layers

        // add rect for all artboards

        for (i = 0; i < artboardRef.length; i++) {

            var top = artboardRef.artboardRect[1];

            var left = artboardRef.artboardRect[0];

            var width = artboardRef.artboardRect[2] - artboardRef.artboardRect[0];

            var height = artboardRef.artboardRect[1] - artboardRef.artboardRect[3];

            var rect = docRef.pathItems.rectangle(top, left, width, height);

            rect.filled = false;

            rect.strokeColor = newCMYKColor;

            rect.strokeWidth = 1;

        }

        sourceDoc.saveAs(targetFile, pdfSaveOpts);

        rectLayer.remove(); // remove layer to remove all rectangles

        sourceDoc.saveAs(targetFileAI, illustratorSaveOpts);

    }

}

function getNewName() {

    var ext, docName, newName, saveInFile, docName;

    docName = sourceDoc.name;

    ext = '_HR_CMYK_PROOF_nobleed.pdf';

    newName = "";

    for (var i = 0; docName != "."; i++) {

        newName += docName;

    }

    newName += ext;

    saveInFile = new File(folderPDF + '/' + newName);

    return saveInFile;

}

function getNewNameAI() {

    saveInFileAI = new File(folderPDF + '/' + sourceDoc.name);

    return saveInFileAI;

}

function getPDFOptions() {

    var pdfSaveOpts = new PDFSaveOptions();

    pdfSaveOpts.pDFPreset = "Inferno Print File (no bleed)";

    return pdfSaveOpts;

}

function getAIOptions() {

    var illustratorSaveOpts = new IllustratorSaveOptions();

    illustratorSaveOpts.pdfCompatible = false;

    return illustratorSaveOpts;

}

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Thanks heaps Moluapple. This works perfectly

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