Adobe Illustrator save as PDF

Question

I'm not exactly sure where my new problem lies. I'm trying to save out single page PDFs from an Illustrator CS4 document with multiple artboards. Each artboard should become a PDF. I can get a multi page PDF, but when it saves single page files, I get white PDFs with error messages on them (I think it is saving .ai files with a .pdf extension).
this is where I am now (simplified, of course):
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
set docName to name of current document
set itemNumber to 1
tell application "Finder" to set fileLoc to path to desktop as string
set pageCount to (count artboards in document docName)
tell current document
set allPlacedItems to placed items
repeat with h from 1 to (count of allPlacedItems)
set thisPlacedItem to item h of allPlacedItems
tell thisPlacedItem to embed
end repeat
set allTextItems to text frames
repeat with j from 1 to (count of allTextItems)
set thisTextItem to item j of allTextItems
tell thisTextItem to convert to paths
end repeat
end tell
repeat with i from 1 to pageCount
set pdfSaveOptions to {class:PDF save options, pdfXstandard:PDFX None, compatibility:Acrobat 6, preserve editability:false, generate thumbnails:false, optimization:false, acrobat layers:false, artboard range:i, view pdf:false, color downsampling:0, color resample:nodownsample, color compression:none, grayscale downsampling:0, grayscale resample:nodownsample, grayscale compression:none, monochrome downsampling:0, monochrome resample:nodownsample, monochrome compression:none, compress art:false, trim marks:false, registration marks:false, color bars:false, page info:false, page marks style:Roman, trim mark weight:trimmarkweight025, offset:6.0, bleed link:true, bleed offset:{0, 0, 0, 0}, color conversion id:none, color destination id:none, color profile id:include all profiles, trapped:false, font subset threshold:50.0}
set pdfName to docName & "TEST" & itemNumber & ".pdf"
set destFile to (fileLoc & pdfName) as string
save document 1 in file destFile as pdf with options pdfSaveOptions
set itemNumber to (itemNumber + 1)
end repeat
close current document without saving
end tell

Answer 1

Hi Stephen,
The problem is that the input for the page range is text (even if it is just one number). You're trying to put in a Number (the i you get from the loop). You'll need to convert the number to a string, probably by using the "as text" command.
What I use is (simplified): first check for multiple art boards (and set the range as text), if there is only one set the multiple artboards option to false, else set the page range. You don't have to build a loop to export each artboard seperately.
tell document 1
if (count of artboards) > 1 then
set pagina_bereik to "1-" & ((count of artboards) as text)
else
set pagina_bereik to "1"
end if
end tell
if pagina_bereik = "1" then
save document 1 in file DestFIle as eps with options {class:EPS save options, preview:color TIFF, embed all fonts:true, embed linked files:true, include document thumbnails:true, PostScript:level 2, save multiple artboards:false}
else
save document 1 in file DestFIle as eps with options {class:EPS save options, preview:color TIFF, embed all fonts:true, embed linked files:true, include document thumbnails:true, PostScript:level 2, save multiple artboards:true, artboard range:pagina_bereik}
end if
Hope this helps,
Ton