I found and tweaked a droplet script that isn't quite working right. I am hoping for some help with getting it to work the way I want. I tried and failed to learn to do this myself. Your help is greatly appreciated!
Here's an example: I drag two files called "filename.indd" and "filename2.indd" onto the droplet. The script I have right now will output the packages and PDFs into the following folder structure:
export folder
filename folder
filename.pdf
filename folder
filename.indd
[Package contents]
filename2 folder
filename2.pdf
filename2 folder
filename2.indd
[Package contents]
Here's the folder structure I need (using a dialog box or script that intelligently knows that the directory to save in is the same as the files I dragged on to the droplet would be amazing):
dialog box to choose new directory set to baseFolder
or
baseFolder <---- set to the current directory of the files I dragged onto the droplet
filename folder
filename.indd
[Package contents]
PDF folder <--------new folder "PDF" created
filename.pdf
filename2 folder
filename2.indd
[Package contents]
PDF folder <--------new folder "PDF" created
filename2.pdf
Here's a script I found and modified:
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property baseFolder : (path to desktop as text) & "exports:"
on open mgItems
repeat with mgThisItem in mgItems
tell application id "com.adobe.InDesign"
try
open mgThisItem
set mgDocName to name of active document
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to ".indd"
set mgShortName to text item 1 of mgDocName
set targetFolderPath to my createFolder(mgShortName)
set text item delimiters of AppleScript to ""
set mgPackageFilePath to targetFolderPath & mgShortName as string
set mgProofFilePath to mgPackageFilePath & ".pdf" as string
set properties of PDF export preferences to properties of PDF export preset "[Smallest File Size]"
tell the active document to export format PDF type to mgProofFilePath without showing options
tell the active document to package to mgPackageFilePath with copying fonts, ignore preflight errors, copying profiles, updating graphics, including hidden layers, copying linked graphics and creating report
close active document saving no
on error e
display dialog e
end try
end tell
end repeat
display dialog "PDFs created and InDesign file packaged"
end open
on createFolder(nameString)
set macFolderPath to baseFolder & nameString
do shell script "mkdir -p " & quoted form of POSIX path of macFolderPath
return macFolderPath & ":"
end createFolder
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Thanks very much!
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