Is it possible to create droplet?

It would be nice for a lot of things in scripting to be more standardised across the applications but it ain't goin to happen.

Here is my take on Sonic's AppleScript Droplet (I've gone none POSIX and used plain old HFS paths)

on open FileList

repeat with ThisFile in FileList

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

open ThisFile

set docRef to the current document

tell docRef

set docName to name of docRef

set docPath to file path

set docParent to my getParentFolder(docPath)

set docBaseName to my getBaseName(docName)

convert to paths every text frame

embed every placed item

set newFileName to docParent & docBaseName & ".pdf"

save in file newFileName as pdf with options ¬

{class:PDF save options, compatibility:Acrobat 5, preserve editability:true}

close saving no

end tell

end tell

end repeat

end open

-- Returns a file paths parent directory as string

on getParentFolder(fPath)

tell application "Finder"

set parentFolder to container of fPath as string

end tell

return parentFolder

end getParentFolder

-- Returns the document name without extension (if present)

on getBaseName(fName)

set basename to fName

repeat with idx from 1 to (length of fName)

if (item idx of fName = ".") then

set basename to (items 1 thru (idx - 1) of fName) as string

exit repeat

end if

end repeat

return basename

end getBaseName