Export to PDF with modal dialogsHi, Iam

[Rums]

Hi,

I am trying to export Indesign document into PDF using Javascript. When the document has a missing font or link, a warning pops up and the export command fails saying there is a modal dialog that is open. How do I disable all the warnings or close all the warning dialogs before executing my export command?

thanks for your help.

[Jongware · Accepted solution]

app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.NEVER_INTERACT;

This will completely and utterly hide all dialogs. Be kind to your users (and to yourself!) and disable it just before a command that may pop up unwanted dialogs; then, right after that command, enable them again! Or else you will never see a Javascript error pop up, or, for that matter, any other ID dialog. It does what it says on the label!

[kris7]

Hi Rums,

I have an Applescript to do a PDF export with warnings for missing/modified links or fonts that works nicely from the script panel in InDesign.

But I wanted to make it run form a panel. Unfortunatly teh Adobe Configurator only works with javascript.

I have no expertise at all with javascript.

Could I make use of your script?

Would be very grateful.

[Rums]

sure kris..... here is the script that I used.

var runScript = function (inputFilePath, pdfFilePath)

{

          try {

                    // suppress warnings, alerts

                    app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.neverInteract;

                    // open input file

                    var inFile = new File (inputFilePath);

                    var myDocument = app.open (inFile);

                    // export the file to pdf

                    app.pdfExportPreferences.pageRange = PageRange.ALL_PAGES;

                    var pdfFile = new File(pdfFilePath);

                    myDocument.exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, pdfFile, false);

                    // Close the document in InDesign

                    app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.no);

                    app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;

          } catch (e) {

                    alert ("There was a problem exporting file ("+e+")");

          }

}

[KuddRoww]

var myFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Select an in folder.");

var files = myFolder.getFiles ("*.indd");

var outFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Select an out folder.");

app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel=UserInteractionLevels.NEVER_INTERACT;

for(i = 0, l = files.length; i <l; i++)

{

    myFile = app.open(files, true)    

}

myFile.exportFile(ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, File(outFolder + "/" + myFile.name.replace(/\.indd$/,"") +".pdf"), false);

myFile.close(SaveOptions.NO);

}

alert("PDFs have been generated.")

app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel=UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll