Is javascript capable of exporting specific artboards to a jpg?

[wysiwygbill]

I can export a single artboard to a jpg using the GUI but "artboardRange" doesn't do anything when exporting to a jpg.

I can use the artboardRange in the pdf save options and that works fine but, while the artboard selection is there in the jpg export dialog in the windows gui I can't get this to work in javascript.

Am I going to have to copy my content to a separate document containing only what I want and then export from that?

I tried changing the visibility of objects I didn't want on the jpg but that just leaves a blank area in the resulting jpg even with "artboardClipping" = true. Actually, I don't know that artboardclipping even does anything from what I've tried.

Any suggestions or does this just not work in JavaScript with CS4?

Edit:

If I export to a jpg and use the artboards then a separate jpg is made for each artboard included with a prefix of the artboard # in the name, i.e. filename-01.jpg and filename-02.jpg. It'd be great if I could script this correctly.

[Jongware]

It seems "exportFile" is a Document option only. "Artboard" doesn't provide an "exportFile" method ...

Document.exportFile may accept "options", but other than "Options for the file type specified. (Optional)" I cannot find anything that might be useful in the ESTK Help.

(Some minutes later:) Oh, okay, these are explained in the Illy Scripting Ref. Unfortunately, the ExportJPEGOptions don't seem to provide it either -- you already looked for those.

[wysiwygbill]

Yeah, these are only document methods in Illustrator.

Actually, saveAs using PDFSaveOptions doesn't work right either. If I specify an artboard with artboardRange is doesn't do anything different; it just puts each artboard on a separate page in a pdf. However, if I set artboardRange to an empty string it actually changes the name of the current document to a .pdf and THEN I can resave it by adding the artboardRange during the second try which seems a bit odd.

At this point I don't believe the "Use Artboards" and the "Range" options which are available in the GUI function correctly in Javascript for either saveAs or exportFile which is annoying as I need this to work.

Also, the PDFSaveOptions.artboardRange string is actually validated and must be either blank or a valid range expression. If I have 2 artboards and I specify '3' it'll fail but if I specify '1' or '2' it still saves all of the artboards. The saveMultipleArtboards option does nothing.

[CarlosCanto · Accepted solution]

artboardRange doesn't seem to work in CS4.

It worked fine in CS5, in this example I saved all artboards, but I was also able to do 1 or 2 at a time.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/727945?tstart=0

[wysiwygbill]

I was afraid of that. I don't believe Adobe Illustrator CS4 ever had a service pack released for it. It's still 14.0. That's pretty annoying. 😞