I tried the following applecript to combine two pictures into one pdf file:
set initFile to (path to desktop as string) & "acrobatTest1:rma.pdf"
set infile to (path to desktop as string) & "acrobatTest1:rma1.png"
tell application "Finder"
set theFile1 to initFile as alias
set theFile2 to infile as alias
end tell
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Professional"
open theFile1 without invisible
open theFile2 with invisible
set docRefA to the name of document 1
set PageCount to count of pages of document 1
set docRefB to the name of document 2
insert pages document docRefA after PageCount from document docRefB starting with 1 number of pages 1 with insert bookmarks
end tell
and I get the following error message:
AppleScrit Error
Adobe Acrobat Professional got an error: document “rma.pdf” doesn’t understand the
insert pages message.
Can anyone help me to understand what I’m doing wrong?
Thanks.
Suwen
My environment: MacBook, Mac OS 10.4.10, Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.1.1
I tried the same script on Adobe Acrobat 6 and got the same error.
Model: MacBook
AppleScript: 1.10.7
Browser: Safari 419.3
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)
set initFile to (path to desktop as string) & "acrobatTest1:rma.pdf" as alias
set infile to (path to desktop as string) & "acrobatTest1:rma1.png" as alias
tell application "Finder"
set original_name to name of initFile
set new_file_name to characters 1 thru -5 of original_name & "_revise.pdf"
end tell
tell application "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional"
open initFile --without invisible
open infile --with invisible
set Master_Doc to document 1
set file_to_insert to document 2
set PageCount to count of pages of Master_Doc
insert pages Master_Doc after PageCount from document 2 starting with 1 number of pages 1
close document 2 without saving
save document 1 to file ((path to desktop as string) & "acrobatTest1:" & new_file_name)
close document 1
end tell
This works for me in Acrobat 7 I haven’t had a chance to try it in 8 yet, please let me know how you get on!
Thanks,
Nik
Hi Suwen,
glad this is working for you. Just incase you wanted to import more than one PNG file in on go give this a try:
set source_folder to choose folder with prompt "Please choose folder containing images to insert"
set Master_File to choose file with prompt "Please select a PDF to insert pages into"
tell application "Finder"
set original_name to name of Master_File
set new_file_name to characters 1 thru -5 of original_name & "_revise.pdf"
end tell
tell application "Finder" to set file_list to every file of source_folder whose name ends with ".png"
tell application "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional"
open Master_File
set Master_Doc to document 1
set PageCount to count of pages of Master_Doc
end tell
repeat with this_file in file_list
tell application "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional"
open (this_file as alias)
insert pages Master_Doc after PageCount from document 2 starting with 1 number of pages 1
close document 2 without saving
end tell
end repeat
tell application "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional"
save document 1 to file ((path to desktop as string) & "acrobatTest1:" & new_file_name)
close document 1
end tell
Hi guys, I know it’s an old thread but thanks for your contributions on this.
Your scripts helped me to perfect my own utility to export JPEGs from Indesign and then combine them into a single PDF. Sometimes this is necessary when a file is complex and the regular PDF just doesn’t come down to an emailable size.
Acrobat is not so easy to script and it even seems a bit quirky. For example I had a lot of trouble using variables within Acrobat to refer to open documents (you have to save them as a PDF before you can refer to them with a variable) and I could not use the repeat counter as a variable to specify the page number to insert subsequent files after the last page of the master PDF document. I had to create a new variable from the page count.
So without further ado, here is my script.
set file_list to {}
--Get output folder and base filename
tell application "Adobe InDesign CC"
activate
display dialog "This script exports all pages to JPEG and combines them into a single PDF" & return & return & "Click OK to continue and select a destination folder."
set output_folder to choose folder with prompt "Select output folder for JPEGs and final PDF"
set doc_filename to name of document 1
set DotOffset to offset of ".indd" in doc_filename
set InterimFilename to the text 1 thru (DotOffset - 1) of doc_filename
end tell
--Make a copy of original JPEG export prefs
tell application "Adobe InDesign CC"
set OrigJPEGprops to properties of JPEG export preferences
--Ask user for desired resolution
display dialog "Please enter the JPEG resolution" default answer "300"
set JPEG_Resolution to text returned of result as integer
-- Set JPEG export prefs to preferred values
set properties of JPEG export preferences to {anti alias:true, embed color profile:false, export resolution:JPEG_Resolution, Exporting Spread:false, jpeg color space:RGB, JPEG export range:export all, JPEG Quality:maximum, JPEG Rendering style:baseline encoding, use document bleeds:false}
--Get page count
tell document 1 to set INDD_PPCount to the count of pages
end tell
--Export JPEGs from Indesign page by page, with unique filename
repeat with x from 1 to INDD_PPCount
set x1 to x as text
tell application "Adobe InDesign CC" to set properties of JPEG export preferences to {JPEG export range:export range, Page String:x1}
set NewFilename to InterimFilename & "_page" & x & ".jpg"
set FilePath to ((output_folder as text) & NewFilename)
tell document 1 of application "Adobe InDesign CC" to export format JPG to FilePath
set FilePathAlias to FilePath as alias
set file_list to file_list & FilePathAlias
set NewFilename to InterimFilename
end repeat
--Reset original JPEG export prefs
tell application "Adobe InDesign CC" to set properties of JPEG export preferences to OrigJPEGprops
--Create PDF file path
set PDF_Filename to InterimFilename & ".pdf"
set PDF_FilePath to ((output_folder as text) & PDF_Filename)
--Combine JPEGs into a PDF document using Acrobat
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
activate
repeat with page_counter from 1 to the count of file_list
open item page_counter of file_list
if page_counter is 1 then
save document 1 to PDF_FilePath
set Master_doc to document 1
else
--insert pages Master_doc after page_counter from document 2 starting with 1 number of pages 1
--insert pages Master_doc after 1 from document 2 starting with 1 number of pages 1
set PageCount to count of pages of Master_doc
insert pages Master_doc after PageCount from document 2 starting with 1 number of pages 1
close document 2 saving no
end if
end repeat
save Master_doc
close Master_doc
end tell
--Delete the working file JPEGs from the destination folde
tell application "Finder"
activate
repeat with i from 1 to the count of file_list
delete item i of file_list
end repeat
end tell
--Go back to Indesign and report
tell application "Adobe InDesign CC"
activate
display dialog "Your PDF has been created."
end tell
I’m using this to assign a just opened document to a variable, it’s not necessary to resave the file
set pdfFile to choose file
set pdfFileName to name of (info for pdfFile) -- get the file name
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
open pdfFile
set myDocument to document pdfFileName
end tell
