I am trying to figure out a script to relink a linked pdf in Illustrator. Basically my file will have two linked pages from a pdf in illustrator. The file will then export images made from artboards from specific sections in each page. I will be repeating this 250 times so, it would be awesome if I could automate it.
Each images.ai file will be in separate folders, along with the pdf I would like to replace the linked pdf with. Any ideas?
Thank you!
Nevertheless, even though Illustrator doesn't handle multi-page pdfs via script this simply solution works somehow fine on my test files:
d:\test
│
├───folder1
│ ├───artwork.ai
│ └───folder1.pdf
│
├───folder2
│ ├───artwork.ai
│ └───folder2.pdf
│
└───folder3
├───artwork.ai
└───folder3.pdf
It iterates through the folders folder1
, folder2
, folder3
, opens the files artwork.ai
and updates the links with folder1.pdf
, folder2.pdf
and folder3.pdf
respectively.
var main_folder = Folder('d:/test');
var dirs = main_folder.getFiles();
for (var i=0; i<dirs.length; i++) {
var dir = dirs[i];
if (dir instanceof Folder) update_links(dir);
}
function update_links(dir) {
var ai_file = File(dir.fullName + '/artwork.ai');
var doc = app.open(ai_file);
var pdfs = doc.placedItems;
var new_pdf = File(dir.fullName + '/' + dir.name + '.pdf');
for (var i=0; i<pdfs.length; i++) pdfs[i].relink(new_pdf);
// doc.save();
// doc.close();
}
Surprisingly it keeps intact original pages of the linked pdfs. Try it.