relink pages of a PDF file

Hello! I encountered a similar problem and my solution may be of value to you.

This is how I broke it down:

1: Create a dialog with an edit box where you type the number of pages in the document you wish to import.

2: Prompt the user to select a file to place.

3: Create a for loop that iterates through as many times as there are pages in the placed PDF

4: Import the page number of the PDF on the matching page number on the indesign file by refering to the current value of the counter for both.

Here are some segments of code from my script that may be of use to you:

1: with(borderPanels.add()){

                    staticTexts.add({staticLabel: "Page Count:"});

                    var PageCount = integerEditboxes.add({minimumValue: 1, maximumValue: 9999, editValue: 1, minWidth: 50});

                    }

var SelectedPageCount = parseInt(PageCount.editValue);

2: var Art = File.openDialog

3/4: function PlaceFile (Document, Art, SelectedPageCount) {

    //Create a counter from the page count

    var Counter = SelectedPageCount

        // Automated Placement

             for (Counter; Counter > 0; Counter --) {

                    app.pdfPlacePreferences.pageNumber = Counter;

                    var placeFile1 = Document.pages.item(Counter + "").place(Art, ["0.5in" ,"0.5in"])[0];

                    //This resets the imported page default to 1 for next time a document is placed

                    app.pdfPlacePreferences.pageNumber = 1;

                 }

            }

I hope this is of use to you! Perhaps you could use this theory with some tweaks for specific pages only using a dialog etc?

Hi,

That's why relink is faster perhaps?

You need to set app.pdfPlacePreferences.pageNumber to reach a proper page, right?

Method place(File) has a parameter "showOptions" which means it has to read a set of app and doc preferences before executing and take care about their values.

Method relink(File) doesn't care probably...

I am not sure, guessing only...

Jarek