Folder navigation with Adobe Illustrator CS4

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#1

Dear All,

In CS4, I can get file path by using the the code below:


set theOutdatedPathObj to the file path of current document
set thePath to (POSIX path of theOutdatedPathObj) as string

May I know how to I get the parent folder of the document?
What I am trying to do is: I am working on a file in a folder and I want to save a PDF back to its parent folder.

Please help

Thanks,
Jeno

#2

Hi.

When I run this in CS4, it gives me the path to the folder that the InDesign file was saved in. I think this is all you need:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"
	set theOutdatedPathObj to the file path of front document as string
end tell

On a personal note, I usually refer to my documents by name instead of hoping that the doc I want is still the front document. I think that it is more solid coding. Like this:

Tell application “Adobe InDesign CS4”
Tell document “Testfile.indd”
–blah blah blah
end tell
End tell

Oh, and to answer your original question for future reference (how to get the containing folder of a file), you would use the Finder:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"
	
	set theOutdatedPathObj to the file path of front document as string
	set theFullPath to theOutdatedPathObj & name of front document
	
	tell application "Finder" to set PathToTheFolder to (container of file theFullPath) as string
	
end tell

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#3

Thanks for the reply Matt-Boy

Here is my code. Illustrator keeps giving me unknown error i doesn’t know why.


tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
	set filepath to (file path of current document) as alias
	
	tell application "Finder"
		set parentPath to container of (container of file filepath) as alias
		set destPath to folder "_PDF" in parentPath as alias
		
		
		
		tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
			set pdfSaveOptions to {class:PDF save options, PDF preset:"SAMLL_PDF"}
			save current document in destPath as pdf with options pdfSaveOptions
		end tell
		
	end tell
end tell

Cheers,

#4

You’re passing Illustrator a folder alias, not a reference to a file. Skip the Finder and try this:

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
	set filepath to file path of current document
	set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {":"}
	set docName to text item -1 of filepath
	set theFolder to (text 1 thru text item -3 of filepath) & ":"
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims	
	set pdfSaveOptions to {class:PDF save options, PDF preset:"SAMLL_PDF"}
	save current document in file (theFolder & docName) as pdf with options pdfSaveOptions
end tell
#5

Thanks Shane Stanley,

It seem like I am having error with

Tested on OS X 10.5 & 10.6, Illustrator CS3 & Illustrator CS4

I saw people using number -1…etc few times in the forum but I don’t know how to translate it to something else.

Thanks & Regards,
Jeno

#6

Change this:

set filepath to file path of current document

to this:

set filepath to (file path of current document) as text