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Save as PDFs.jsx 
 
DESCRIPTION 
 
This sample gets files specified by the user from the  
selected folder and batch processes them and saves them  
as PDFs in the user desired destination with the same  
file name. 
  
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// Main Code [Execution of script begins here] 
 
// uncomment to suppress Illustrator warning dialogs 
// app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DONTDISPLAYALERTS; 
 
var destFolder, sourceFolder, files, fileType, sourceDoc, targetFile, pdfSaveOpts; 
 
// Select the source folder. 
sourceFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder with Illustrator files you want to convert to PDF', '~' ); 
 
// If a valid folder is selected 
if ( sourceFolder != null ) 
{ 
	files = new Array(); 
	fileType = prompt( 'Select type of Illustrator files to you want to process. Eg: *.ai', ' ' ); 
	 
	// Get all files matching the pattern 
	files = sourceFolder.getFiles( fileType ); 
	 
	if ( files.length > 0 ) 
	{ 
		// Get the destination to save the files 
		destFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder where you want to save the converted PDF files.', '~' ); 
		for ( i = 0; i < files.length; i++ ) 
		{ 
			sourceDoc = app.open(files[i]); // returns the document object 
									 
			// Call function getNewName to get the name and file to save the pdf 
			targetFile = getNewName(); 
			 
			// Call function getPDFOptions get the PDFSaveOptions for the files 
			pdfSaveOpts = getPDFOptions( ); 
			 
			// Save as pdf 
			sourceDoc.saveAs( targetFile, pdfSaveOpts ); 
			 
			sourceDoc.close(); 
		} 
		alert( 'Files are saved as PDF in ' + destFolder ); 
	} 
	else 
	{ 
		alert( 'No matching files found' ); 
	} 
} 
 
 
 
 
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getNewName: Function to get the new file name. The primary 
name is the same as the source file. 
 
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function getNewName() 
{ 
	var ext, docName, newName, saveInFile, docName; 
	docName = sourceDoc.name; 
	ext = '.pdf'; // new extension for pdf file 
	newName = ""; 
		 
	for ( var i = 0 ; docName[i] != "." ; i++ ) 
	{ 
		newName += docName[i]; 
	} 
	newName += ext; // full pdf name of the file 
	 
	// Create a file object to save the pdf 
	saveInFile = new File( destFolder + '/' + newName ); 
	 
 
	return saveInFile; 
} 
 
 
 
 
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getPDFOptions: Function to set the PDF saving options of the  
files using the PDFSaveOptions object. 
 
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function getPDFOptions() 
{ 
	// Create the PDFSaveOptions object to set the PDF options 
	var pdfSaveOpts = new PDFSaveOptions(); 
	 
	// Setting PDFSaveOptions properties. Please see the JavaScript Reference 
	// for a description of these properties. 
	// Add more properties here if you like 
	pdfSaveOpts.acrobatLayers = true; 
	pdfSaveOpts.colorBars = true; 
	pdfSaveOpts.colorCompression = CompressionQuality.AUTOMATICJPEGHIGH; 
	pdfSaveOpts.compressArt = true; //default 
	pdfSaveOpts.embedICCProfile = true; 
	pdfSaveOpts.enablePlainText = true; 
	pdfSaveOpts.generateThumbnails = true; // default 
	pdfSaveOpts.optimization = true; 
	pdfSaveOpts.pageInformation = true; 
	 
	// uncomment to view the pdfs after conversion. 
	// pdfSaveOpts.viewAfterSaving = true; 
	 
 
	return pdfSaveOpts; 
}