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• • February 25, 2019 at 1:53 pm #114648
    gamouning

    Member

    Hi,

    I’m looking for assistance with creating a export presets that work with page ranges. For example, I wish to create an export preset named “A” that uses the following page range “1-8, 11-”. This preset does not export pages 9-10.

    Then setup preset named “B” for “pages 1-10-13-”. This preset does not export pages 11-12.

    BTW, I found a javascript that looks like it might assist with this process located on the following thread:

    https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/18796/indesign-script-to-print-indd-into-pdf

    However, I did not have much luck with getting it to work.

    Thanks in advance! :-)

  • February 26, 2019 at 3:05 am #114651
    Kai Rübsamen

    Member

    Hi,

    your mentioned script does export a active document to a specified location. It doesn’t honor page ranges.

    It seems not possible, to save page ranges in a preset either (same with “view after export”). But you can set those values inside a script. From Adobes examples:

        
    //using the current PDF export settings.
        var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);
        with(app.pdfExportPreferences){
        //Enter the names of the pages you want to export in the following line.
        //Note that the page name is not necessarily the index of the page in the
        //document (e.g., the first page of a document whose page numbering starts
        //with page 21 will be "21", not 1).
        	pageRange = "1, 3-6, 7, 9-11, 12";
        }
        myDocument.exportFile(
    		ExportFormat.pdfType,
            File(Folder.desktop + "/ExportPageRangeAsPDF.pdf"),
            false
    	);
        //</fragment>
    
    

    best
    Kai

    • February 28, 2019 at 12:05 pm #114678
      gamouning

      Member

      Hi Kai,

      Thanks for this sharing this code. I am having success with the page range but no luck with selecting my Export preset. I tried using the following:

      var myPDFExportPreset = app.pdfExportPresets.item(“Monthly_Rat”)

      myDocument.exportFile(
      ExportFormat.pdfType,
      File(Folder.desktop + “/ExportPageRangeAsPDF.pdf”),
      true, myPDFExportPreset
      );

      Note: I know these preset settings do not work because the “Monthly_Rat” does not appear and the PDF that gets created does not contain the correct attributes when I few them via properties.

      Thanks in advance for any additional assistance you can provide.

      -Greg

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