PDFsaveOptions scripting help needed... please.

[_Xentral_]

I am not a programmer so I need help from a kind soul to fill in the blanks on the missing parts below as I attempt to automate some of my steps to save my illustrator to pdf. What I need is to convert text to outlines using PDFSaveOptions() and setting convertStrokesToOutlines to "True"... i just can't seem to get it to work or am I on the right track. Thank you so much in advance.

I have managed to do this so far on Illustrator CS3:
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var dsname = app.activeDocument.activeDataSet.name

if ( app.documents.length > 0 ) {
var saveName = new File (doc.path + "/Designs/" + dsname);
saveOpts = new PDFSaveOptions();
saveOpts.pDFPreset = ("AI pdf");
***** i need to convert all text to outlines here.... *****
saveOpts.flattenerOptions = ?????;
doc.saveAs( saveName, saveOpts );

[Larry G. Schneider]

Check out printFlattenerOptions (page 154 of the JavaScript Reference) to outline the text.

[_Xentral_]

Hi Larry or anybody,

Yes, I've tried that, there's no script error but the text does not convert, here's my script which I added to the one in my earlier post:

var flatOpts = new PrintFlattenerOptions();
saveOpts.flattenerOptions = flatOpts;
saveOpts.convertTextToOutlines = true;

Any advice? thank you.

[MarkWalsh]

How about converting the text to outlines before you save the PDF?

for (var i = doc.textFrames.length -1; i> -1; i--) {
doc.textFrames.createOutline();
}

[_Xentral_]

Hi Mark,

Thank you so much, it works fine now.