InDesign export slows to a crawl
InDesign export slows to a crawl
- Subject: InDesign export slows to a crawl
- From: Håvard Graudo <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:41:16 +0200
I have some InDesign documents with several hundred pages. Small, very similar pages; 1 picture, a logo, some text. Very basic stuff.
I want to export the pages as single PDFs picking up info from the page to use for naming the files. (ie product, serial number)
When I export by Applescript InDesign starts off spitting out around 20-30 pages pr minute, but gets slower and slower and in the end it will use several minutes pr page. This has been so with ID 5, ID 6 and ID CC.
If I export ie 800 pages at once it will take 4-5-6 hours to complete.
If I rather export 100 pages. Wait until it finishes. Then export another 100 pages I can get 800 pages done in 30 minutes.
Here is some code. (I have removed error checking and some other stuff.) I pick up the filename from a box in a layer and export:
--
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS6"
set myExportFormat to (choose from list (name of every PDF export preset) with prompt "Choose export pref?") as string
set targetfolder to choose folder with prompt "Choose folder for export?"
tell document 1
set pagename to (name of every page)
repeat with apage in pagename
set finnFilnavn to (every text frame of page apage whose name of item layer is "filename")
set filnavn to contents of (item 1 of item 1 of finnFilnavn)
set newname to (filnavn & ".pdf") as string
tell PDF export preferences of application "Adobe InDesign CS6" to set page range to (apage as string)
ignoring application responses
asynchronous export file format PDF type to ((targetfolder & newname) as string) using myExportFormat without showing options
end ignoring
delay (1) -- give ID some time to breath
end repeat
end tell
end tell
--
I then tried to pick up and sort all the filenames/pages first, and putting the repeat loop only around the export command, but that is just as slow.
Any suggestions?
Håvard
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