Export indesign linked files as pdf files?

[Eugene Tyson]

Anyone have a script that will export all linked files in an indesign document as a pdf at the size they are in Indesign?

I need to start moving a lot of links from lots of files to another platform for web deployment and the only format it accepts is PDF.

[Peter Kahrel]

Here's a script that exports all linked files in the active document as PDF except those that are already PDF and those whose link is invalid. It uses the [Press Quality] PDF preset, you can change that in line 21.

Peter

(function () {
  function getLinks () {
    var listOk = [];
    var listNotOk = [];
    var links = app.documents[0].links.everyItem().getElements();
    for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
      if (/\.pdf$/i.test(links.filePath) === false) {
        if (links.status === LinkStatus.NORMAL) {
          listOk.push (links.filePath);
        } else {
          listNotOk.push (links.filePath);
        }
      }
    }
    return {listOk: listOk, listNotOk: listNotOk}
  }
  function exportLinksAsPdf (list) {
    var placed;
    var preset = app.pdfExportPresets.item ('[Press Quality]');
    app.documents.add();
    for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
      placed = app.documents[0].pages[0].place (File(list), [0,0], undefined, false)[0];
      app.documents[0].pages[0].resize (CoordinateSpaces.INNER_COORDINATES, 
                            AnchorPoint.TOP_LEFT_ANCHOR, 
                            ResizeMethods.REPLACING_CURRENT_DIMENSIONS_WITH, 
                            [placed.geometricBounds[3], placed.geometricBounds[2]]);
      app.documents[0].exportFile (ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, File (list.replace (/^(.+\.).+/, '$1pdf')), false, preset);
      placed.parent.remove();
    }
    app.documents[0].close (SaveOptions.NO);
  }
  var lists = getLinks();
  exportLinksAsPdf (lists.listOk);
  if (lists.listNotOk.length > 0) {
    alert ('Unable to export the following links: \r' + lists.listNotOk.join('\r'));
  }
}());