Export Indesign File to PDF

InDesign
1

Does UXP have native support for exporting an Indesign file to PDF? If not, what would be the next best way to accomplish this?

2

It seems that exportFile is the way to do it.

/**
  * @file UXP Script for export PDF. 
  * For whatever reason, the documentation for exportFile exists on the page for objects such as TextFrame. 
  * https://developer.adobe.com/indesign/dom/api/t/TextFrame/#methods
  * @version 1.0.0
  * @author sttk3.com
  * @copyright © 2024 sttk3.com
*/

const { app, ExportFormat } = require('indesign') ;

(() => {
  if(app.documents.length <= 0) {return ;}
  const doc = app.activeDocument ;

  const docName = doc.name.replace(/\.[a-z0-9]{2,4}$/i, '') ;
  const targetPath = `/Users/username/Desktop/${docName}.pdf` ;

  const pdfPreset = app.pdfExportPresets.item(0) ;
  doc.exportFile(ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, targetPath, false, pdfPreset) ;
})() ;
3

Hi everyone,

Could you please confirm whether there is NO asynchronous PDF export available in UXP at the moment?

The ExtendScript version is not very stable, so I had to stop using it in my scripts. I was hoping that a UXP implementation could be a possible workaround. Currently, UXP PDF export works just fine, but it doesn’t provide any real added value compared to the ExtendScript version.

Has anyone heard of a roadmap or future plans to support asynchronous PDF export in UXP?

Thanks.

4

InDesign’s UXP Object Model is using the same bindings as the ExtendScript one, so in 99.9% of the cases, if something exists in ExtendScript it also exists in UXPScript. Now if it works ok or not, that’s a different question.
But specifically for your problem:

app.activeDocument.asynchronousExportFile(ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, 'd:/test.pdf')

Seems to be working just fine in UXP

5

Thanks for the feedback. Seems straightforward, and it works indeed.
I don’t know what I was doing wrong here. Got confused… anyway. Thank you.