Automated Scripting to create PDF

Question

Ok -- I am new here but I have been using InDesign for several years. I have CS4
(Windows) and the EasyCatalog plugin. I currently create directories using EasyCatalog pulling from a SQL database. I would like to be able to have these directories created daily and placed in a pdf format for users to view. Can this be done with scripting? If I am not being clear, I apologize. I am not sure of the technical terms myself. I know very little programming.

Answer 1

Sounds to me like you would need a scripted solution.
That would be something like this Javascript.
Warning! Very basic; it assumes the index lives in a story of its own, and all numbers in it are page numbers, and all other pages reside in the same document, and page numbering starts at 1. Anything beyond this (documents gathered in a Book, or weird page numbering, or not-every-number-is-a-page-number) complicate stuff. The only sane check is if the number is actually in the page range.
app.findGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\<\\d+\\>";
list = app.selection[0].parent.findGrep();
for (l=0; l<list.length; l++)
     if (list[l].contents > 0 && list[l].contents <= app.activeDocument.pages.length)
          hdest = app.activeDocument.hyperlinkPageDestinations.add (app.activeDocument.pages[list[l].contents-1]);
          hlink = app.activeDocument.hyperlinks.add (app.activeDocument.hyperlinkTextSources.add(list[l]), hdest);
          hlink.name = "#"+l+" to page "+list[l].contents;