Modify existing pdf setting

[Balaji Murugesan]

Hi,

How to add includeSlugWithPDF option in 

[Smallest File Size] pdf setting:

Sample Code:

var preset = app.pdfExportPresets.itemByName("[Smallest File Size]");

app.pdfExportPreferences.includeSlugWithPDF = true;

Thanks

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

I don't think you can edit the system defined presets. Make a copy of this preset, load it and make the changes to the setting you want.

-Manan

[Jens Trost]

I don't think you can edit the system defined presets. 

Yes you can, but you need to move the joboptions file out of the application preset folder into the user preset folder.
Then you can edit it in InDesign and then move it back into the application folder (or edit the joboptions file directly if you're that geeky ;))

On macOS the paths are (for 2020) – for the default presets:
/Applications/Adobe InDesign 2020/Resources/Adobe PDF/settings/mul

and for the user created presets:
/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings

Don't know about Windows.

[Manan Joshi]

Also, your sample code does not set the property for the preset, you are doing nothing with the preset variable. If you use the code

preset.includeSlugWithPDF = true;

You should get an error as I mentioned in the post above

-Manan