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Save as PDF javascript - issue defining enumerated values as a variable

Perry — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:52:25 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to figure out how I can use a variable as the target for a Save as PDF option in Illustrator javascript. the variables work fine where there is no enumerated value for the property i.e. opts.generateThumbnails but I can figure out how to get it working opts.compatibility or other properties with enumerated values using a variable as the definition.

The code snippet example below will always give an 'Enumerated Value expected' error when run for the opts.colorCompression option even though the string is correct.
If I define the opts as opts.colCompression = compressionQuality.AUTOMATICJPEGHIGH then everythings works

Does anyone know of how I can define the compressionQuality.AUTOMATICJPEGHIGH as a variable the will work

Tks

Code snippet

opts = new PDFSaveOptions();
opts.compatibility = PDFCompatibility.ACROBAT5;
opts.generateThumbnails = thumbnailValue;
opts.preserveEditability = editingValue
opts.optimization = optimizationValue;
opts.colorCompression = colCompressionDefault;

// default value is defined at the start of the script as:-
// var colCompressionDefault = 'compressionQuality.AUTOMATICJPEGMAXIMUM';

alert("Options Color Compression = " + opts.colorCompression);

for (x = 0; x < doc.artboards.length; x++ )
{

doc.artboards.setActiveArtboardIndex( x );
var artboardName = doc.artboards[x].name;

if ( ( artboardName.match( /^Printed/i ) ))
{
opts.artboardRange = x+1;
expFile = File( destFolder + '/'+ nameString + '-' + doc.artboards[x].name + '.pdf' );
doc.saveAs ( expFile, opts ); //This is the lien that fails
}
}

//close the open document
sourceDoc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);

XMPie uDirect Conditional Formatting

Akaleus — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:24:10 GMT

I'm trying to achieve something with uDirect that I think should be possible but I'm not sure how it should be done.

I have a client that has a basic excel spreadsheet with about 30 names. Some of the people in the list of cell phones while others dont. Some of them have middle names while others don't. The problem is that when I go to set up my merge document in InDesign. Say for instance I set up a line with First Name, Middle Name, Last Name. When someone has all 3 of these it's fine. But when someone only wants to use First Name, Last Name what ends up happening is I get 2 spaces in between the First Name & Last Name because there has to be a space there to separate the First Name from the Middle Name even though there's not a Middle Name present. Does anyone know of a way to use the qLingo in XMPie to dynamically add or subtract this space depending on whether a Middle Name is present?

I've thought of just adding the spaces before the Middle Name, Last Name fields in the spreadsheet so that I don't actually have to use spaces in the InDesign file. This would work for this issue, but I have some other reasons I want to use conditional formatting and I cannot get it to work.

The other thing I'm trying to do with conditional formatting is when someone has 2 Titles or more for their job. The client wants to use 2 lines of space if the person has 2 titles. So 1 title on each line of type. I'm trying to vertically center the text within a box but what happens is that when I vertically center 2 lines of text but the person doesn't have a 2nd title, there just ends up being a blank line and it doesn't look centered. So I'm hoping that I can dynamically insert a return when that 2nd line is present as needed.

Anyway, hoping someone on here might know something about how this can be done as I cannot really find anything answering this anywhere else online.

Exporting to PDF . .. Naming Questions???

dabob — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:52:02 GMT

I have been having this issue for a while but it seems to be getting worse. When I use the export to PDF function sometimes it exports it with the file name and other times it exports it with some other file name that apparenly has little or no relationship to the file . . .

Anybody else noticing this????

If you have what did you do about it????

Thanks

Creative Cloud thoughts

amybest222 — Tue, 07 May 2013 20:28:04 GMT

Adobe Creative Cloud | Adobe.com
with the release of Adobe's Creative Cloud updates .. does anyone know if a file created in "CC" will open in the now legacy CS6? (especially Indd.) or is this but yet another reason to push print service providers to upgrade–
with having to be able to open clients files? thoughts

What do you think of this?

Possumgal — Mon, 06 May 2013 17:58:04 GMT

Adobe has decided to focus its resources on Creative Cloud and will not continue development on its Creative Suite software, reports The Next Web. While Creative Suite 6 will continue to be supported in regards to bug fixes, there will be no further updates and no Creative Suite 7.

Didn't find anything on Adobe's newsroom page about it.

InDesign - Insert Special Character question

tbowat — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:59:31 GMT

Does anyone know if there's a way to know if customer has used "Insert special Character" features in their document? Just looking for a heads up before we rearrange pages. Thanks