Adobe 26001360 Scripting Guide - Page 277

Adobe Illustrator CS Scripting Guide 277 Example 105.1 This example shows to batch process folders of Illustrator documents, saving each as a PDF file with specific settings. -- Processes all files in folders dropped on this script -- (when saved as an applet) and save each Illustrator file as a PDF file on run tell me to open {choose folder} end run on open droppedItems set destinationFolder to choose folder with prompt "Destination folder?" repeat with anItem in droppedItems tell application "Finder" -- Make sure each item processed by this script is a folder if class of item anItem is not folder then -- Not a folder, notify the user of the error display dialog "Please drop only folders on this script" else -- It is a folder, so get the Illustrator files in it and process them set fileList to ¬ (every file of anItem whose creator type is "ART5") as alias list end if end tell -- See PDF save options section for isolated example of this handler SaveFilesAsPDF(fileList, destinationFolder) end repeat end open -- fileList is a list of aliases to Illustrator files -- destinationFolder is an alias to a folder where the PDF files are to be saved on SaveFilesAsPDF(fileList, destinationFolder) set destinationPath to destinationFolder as string repeat with aFile in fileList 12 Aug 03