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| //Instant PDF Export | |
| //Written by Nukleas | |
| // | |
| // | |
| myStory = app.activeDocument.name; // Pulls the name of the document | |
| myStory = myStory.split(/[\s.]+/); // Trims the stuff after the . or spaces, which is usually junk like [Pr] or .icml | |
| app.layoutPDFExportPreferences.viewPDF = true //Force view PDF after export (Galley) | |
| app.galleyPDFExportPreferences.viewPDF = true //Force view PDF after export (Galley) | |
| myTypeNumber=app.documents.item(0).windows.item(0).viewTab; //This checks which view tab (Galley, Story, Layout) and sets that value to myTypeNumber | |
| if(myTypeNumber==1699504505){// If it's layout, (The data comes in as a number. It's somewhere in the Help...Object Model Viewer, and don't ask me how they decided that.) then | |
| myType="layout"; //Add "layout" to the filename. | |
| } | |
| else{ | |
| myType="galley"; // or else you're in Story or Galley view, so it'll be called "galley" | |
| } | |
| myFilePath="/"+myStory[0]+"-"+myType+".pdf"; // Sets up filepath. You can edit the beginning part if you have a certain locale you want to keep your PDFs | |
| var pdfFile = new File(myFilePath); | |
| document.exportFile(ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, pdfFile); //And Finally, Export!! |
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