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3: Documents
Exporting a Document as PDF 48
Setting PDF export options
The following script sets the PDF export options before exporting. (For the complete script, see
ExportPDFWithOptions.) tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
--Get the bleed amounts from the document's bleed.
tell document preferences of active document set myX1Offset to document bleed inside or left offset set myY1Offset to document bleed top offset set myX2Offset to document bleed outside or right offset set myY2Offset to document bleed bottom offset end tell tell PDF export preferences
--Basic PDF output options.
set page range to all pages set acrobat compatibility to acrobat 6 set export guides and grids to false set export layers to false set export nonprinting objects to false set export reader spreads to false set generate thumbnails to false try set ignore spread overrides to false end try set include bookmarks to true set include hyperlinks to true try set include ICC profiles to true end try set include slug with PDF to false set include structure to false set interactive elements option to do not include
--Setting subset fonts below to zero disallows font subsetting
--set subset fonts below to some other value to use font subsetting.
set subset fonts below to 0
--Bitmap compression/sampling/quality options.
set color bitmap compression to zip set color bitmap quality to eight bit set color bitmap sampling to none
--threshold to compress color is not needed in this example.
--color bitmap sampling dpi is not needed when color bitmap sampling
--is set to none.
set grayscale bitmap compression to zip set grayscale bitmap quality to eight bit set grayscale bitmap sampling to none
--threshold to compress gray is not needed in this example.
--grayscale bitmap sampling dpi is not needed when grayscale bitmap
--sampling is set to none.
set monochrome bitmap compression to zip set monochrome bitmap sampling to none
--threshold to compress monochrome is not needed in this example.
--monochrome bitmap sampling dpi is not needed when monochrome bitmap
--sampling is set to none.
--Other compression options.
set compression type to Compress None set compress text and line art to true set crop images to frames to true set optimize PDF to true
