preflight before PDF creation InDesign
preflight before PDF creation InDesign
- Subject: preflight before PDF creation InDesign
- From: Rosemary Cantrell <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:58:23 -0500
OK, I have a very spiffy script I downloaded from the Adobe exchange.
It allows me to have a drop folder to plop PDFs into and export using
whatever preset I tell it. This has been awesome. Now I'd like to
use it to create custom-press quality PDFs but I want to do a
preflight (but not package) before to be sure nothing is missing etc.
If it is, I'd like it to either A) Tell me this one is a problem or B)
toss the original into a folder that says "needs help". Whichever is
easier. If it matter, I foresee dropping multiple InDesign files in at
once.
I've looked up in InDesign CS3 Library and I don't find the term
"Preflight" in there. I guess maybe it's suppose to be obvious... If
I were to guess here is what I'd think
tell Preflight this_image
--but then how should I tell it to do the if no errors proceed to the
PDF export part and if there ARE errors to do A or B from above?
--Obviously I don't know what I'm doing, so please help. Thank you!!! - Rosie
--BELOW...What I have currently for just creating PDFs with a drop
folder (borrowed script)
property done_foldername : "PDF Files"
property originals_foldername : "Original Indd Files"
property newimage_extension : "pdf"
-- the list of file types which will be processed
-- eg: {"PICT", "JPEG", "TIFF", "GIFf"}
property type_list : {"indd"}
-- since file types are optional in Mac OS X,
-- check the name extension if there is no file type
-- NOTE: do not use periods (.) with the items in the name extensions list
-- eg: {"txt", "text", "jpg", "jpeg"}, NOT: {".txt", ".text", ".jpg", ".jpeg"}
property extension_list : {"indd"}
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
tell application "Finder"
if not (exists folder done_foldername of this_folder) then
make new folder at this_folder with properties {name:done_foldername}
end if
set the results_folder to (folder done_foldername of this_folder) as alias
if not (exists folder originals_foldername of this_folder) then
make new folder at this_folder with properties {name:originals_foldername}
set current view of container window of this_folder to list view
end if
set the originals_folder to folder originals_foldername of this_folder
end tell
try
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in these_items
set this_item to item i of these_items
set the item_info to the info for this_item
if (alias of the item_info is false and the file type of the
item_info is in the type_list) or (the name extension of the item_info
is in the extension_list) then
tell application "Finder"
my resolve_conflicts(this_item, originals_folder, "")
set the new_name to my resolve_conflicts(this_item,
results_folder, newimage_extension)
set the source_file to (move this_item to the originals_folder
with replacing) as alias
end tell
process_item(source_file, new_name, results_folder)
end if
end repeat
on error error_message number error_number
if the error_number is not -128 then
tell application "Finder"
activate
display dialog error_message buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1
giving up after 120
end tell
end if
end try
end adding folder items to
on resolve_conflicts(this_item, target_folder, new_extension)
tell application "Finder"
set the file_name to the name of this_item
set file_extension to the name extension of this_item
if the file_extension is "" then
set the trimmed_name to the file_name
else
set the trimmed_name to text 1 thru -((length of file_extension) +
2) of the file_name
end if
if the new_extension is "" then
set target_name to file_name
set target_extension to file_extension
else
set target_extension to new_extension
set target_name to (the trimmed_name & "." & target_extension) as string
end if
if (exists document file target_name of target_folder) then
set the name_increment to 1
repeat
set the new_name to (the trimmed_name & "." & (name_increment as
string) & "." & target_extension) as string
if not (exists document file new_name of the target_folder) then
-- rename to conflicting file
set the name of document file target_name of the target_folder to
the new_name
exit repeat
else
set the name_increment to the name_increment + 1
end if
end repeat
end if
end tell
return the target_name
end resolve_conflicts
-- this sub-routine processes files
on process_item(source_file, new_name, results_folder)
-- NOTE that the variable this_item is a file reference in alias format
-- FILE PROCESSING STATEMENTS GOES HERE
try
-- the target path is the destination folder and the new file name
set the target_path to ((results_folder as string) & new_name) as string
with timeout of 900 seconds
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
launch -- always use with Folder Actions
set this_image to open file (source_file as string)
-- remove dashes to activate dialog hooks
--display dialog "Please choose format:" buttons {"Screen", "Print"}
tell PDF export preferences to set page range to all pages
export this_image format PDF type to target_path using "ADMR
Standard" without showing options
close this_image saving no
end tell
end timeout
on error error_message
tell application "Finder"
activate
display dialog error_message buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1
giving up after 120
end tell
end try
end process_item
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