Strangely enough (or not so strange considering that this doesn't seem to be common practice), I came upon the same code that tristanc62106920 came across. I got in contact with the original author of the code and he kindly updated it to export interactive PDF files... with some extra options written in the code. Thanks to Oleh, and nice one Tristan - I didn't know enough to modify this myself.
The key difference here is that any interactive PDF, click/hide/show/hyperlink/roll over elements are maintained. This is not possible with a normal 'print preset'.
Same as above, copy or save into .jsx file and install into indesign. Feel free to modify the export setting through the code before exporting a file:
//DESCRIPTION: Export alternative layouts as interactive PDF files
#target indesign
/*
Here is my solution (actually, not only mine - I found similar script and modified them to make it work the way you need).
This script has been updated for Interactive PDF exporting but still shows a dropdown menu for print presets. Select any preset from the list and press okay to run the script. The PDF preset will be ignored in favour of an interactive PDF export with values selected in the code near the end. Choose JPG compression and PPI
UPDATE:
There's a chance that any preset settings would not be applied, since app.interactivePDFExportPreferences (Interacticve PDF) is completly different from the app.pdfExportPreferences (Print PDF) API: http://www.indesignjs.de/extendscriptAPI/indesign-latest/#InteractivePDFExportPreference.html
If you have suggestions of how to improve this code - feel free to contact me
Oleh Melnyk oleh.melnyk@gmail.com
Change log:
[created] 5 November 2014
[modified] 3 August 2017 (export to interactive PDF instaed of print PDF)
[modified] 18 August 2017 (fix export to interactive PDF - set export page range to app.interactivePDFExportPreferences insteadd of app.pdfExportPreferences)
*/
if(!app.activeDocument.saved){
var win = new Window('dialog', 'ERROR: Unsaved document');
win.orientation = 'column';
with(win){
win.header = add('statictext', undefined, 'You need to save your document (give it a name) before exporting to PDF');
win.button = add('button', undefined, 'OK');
};
win.show();
exit();
}
var pagesCount = app.activeDocument.pages.length;
var alternativeLayout = []; // arrays with alternative layouts names
var filePath = app.activeDocument.fullName.fsName;
var fileNameWithPath = filePath.replace(/.indd/, ""); // remove indesign .indd extenstion, as we don't need it
// dirty way to get all alterative layouts names - there should be a better way, but for now I don't know how
for(var i = 0; i < pagesCount; i++){
if(alternativeLayout[alternativeLayout.length-1] != app.activeDocument.pages.appliedAlternateLayout.alternateLayout){
alternativeLayout.push(app.activeDocument.pages.appliedAlternateLayout.alternateLayout);
i += app.activeDocument.pages.appliedAlternateLayout.alternateLayoutLength-1; // speed up searching for the next alt layout
}
}
// CORE of the script from here: http://indisnip.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/simple-pdf-export-with-preset-selection/
var presets = app.pdfExportPresets.everyItem().name;
presets.unshift("- Select PDF Preset -");
var win = new Window('dialog', 'PDF Export Presets');
win.orientation = 'row';
with(win){
win.header = add('statictext', undefined, 'Select PDF Export preset:');
win.PDFExport = add('dropdownlist',undefined,undefined,{items:presets});
win.PDFExport.selection = 0;
win.button = add('button', undefined, 'OK');
};
win.center();
window = win.show();
if(window == true && win.PDFExport.selection.index != 0){
preset = app.pdfExportPresets.item(String(win.PDFExport.selection));
for(var alt = 0; alt < alternativeLayout.length; alt++){
app.interactivePDFExportPreferences.pageRange = alternativeLayout[alt];
app.interactivePDFExportPreferences.pdfMagnification = PdfMagnificationOptions.FIT_PAGE; // General > Viewing > View
app.interactivePDFExportPreferences.pdfPageLayout = PageLayoutOptions.SINGLE_PAGE; // General > Viewing > Layout
app.interactivePDFExportPreferences.viewPDF = false; // General > Options > View after exporting
//app.interactivePDFExportPreferences.pdfRasterCompression = PDFRasterComprestionOptions.JPEG_COMPRESSION; // Compression > Image Compresion > Compresion
app.interactivePDFExportPreferences.pdfJPEGQuality = PDFJPEGQualityOptions.HIGH; // Compression > Image Compresion > JPEG Quality
app.interactivePDFExportPreferences.rasterResolution = 100; // Compression > Resolution (ppi)
app.activeDocument.exportFile(ExportFormat.INTERACTIVE_PDF, (new File(fileNameWithPath + "_" + alternativeLayout[alt] + ".pdf")), false, preset);
}
}else{
var win = new Window('dialog', 'ERROR: No PDF Preset selected');
win.orientation = 'column';
with(win){
win.header = add('statictext', undefined, 'You need to select PDF Preset before exporting to PDF');
win.button = add('button', undefined, 'OK');
};
win.show();
exit();
}
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