InDesign Server: Error: Failed to Export the PDF file.

[chidev]

I wrote a script to export a PDF file, which works perfectly in InDesign but fails in InDesign Server with just "Error: Failed to Export the PDF file."

I've tried searching for other reports of this problem but haven't found anything that helps so far.
Am I doing something wrong?

var isServer = app.name === "Adobe InDesign Server";
var inddFile = File(inddFileFullPath);
var pdfFile = File(inddFile.fullName.replace(".indd", ".pdf"));

if (isServer) {
    var pdfExportPreset = app.pdfExportPresets.itemByName("[Smallest File Size]");
    app.open(tempFile, OpenOptions.openOriginal);
    app.documents[0].exportFile(ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, pdfFile);
}
else {
    app.open(inddFile, false, OpenOptions.openOriginal);
    app.documents[0].exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, pdfFile, false);
}

app.documents[0].close(SaveOptions.NO);

[Ronald63]

Hi,

Try this ...

var isServer = app.name === "Adobe InDesign Server";
var inddFile = File(inddFileFullPath);
var pdfFile = File(inddFile.fullName.replace(".indd", ".pdf"));

if (isServer) {
    var pdfExportPreset = app.pdfExportPresets.itemByName("[Smallest File Size]");
    //app.open(tempFile, OpenOptions.openOriginal);
    app.open(inddFile);
    app.documents[0].exportFile(ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, pdfFile);
}
else {
    app.open(inddFile, false, OpenOptions.openOriginal);
    app.documents[0].exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, pdfFile, false);
}

app.documents[0].close(SaveOptions.NO);

 You don't use pdfExportPreset, it's normal ?

[chidev]

Thanks.  This doesn't work for me either.  It still throws the "Failed to Export the PDF file" error.

So far it hasn't seemed to matter whether I use pdfExportPreset or not.  I posted this question partly to find out what's normal, in case I'm doing something wrong.

[Guest]

the three parameters Are

1.ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE

2.FILE

3.PRESET Name

try this,

var myDoc=app.documents[0]

var docPath=myDoc.filePath

var printOption="yourPresetName"

var docName=myDoc.name

myDoc.exportFile(ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, File(docPath.parent + "/" + "PDF/" + docName.split(".")[0] + "_PrintPDF.pdf"), printOption.toString()); // For Server

[Lukas Engqvist]

Don'tknow enough about indeign server but why is the indesign exporting to:

ExportFormat.pdfType

and the server:

ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE

[chidev]

The InDesign API documentation lists the enum as ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, but in JavaScript/ExtendScript it doesn't seem to matter if I use that or ExportFormat.pdfType.  I probably should have standardized them before posting this.