Batch create PDF from multiple InDesign documents

Is it possible to create PDF files from multiple InDesign documents, or is there perhaps a script that can do this?

Thanks for this script, it works wonderful.
It saved me a lot of time.

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Running Acrobat 8.1.2 and InDesign CS3 8.0.2
When trying to create a PDF from multiple files, I am getting an error with each file as it is opened by Acrobat to create the PDF file. The error reads:
Invalid value for parameter 'using' of event 'exportFile'. Expected PDFExportPreset, but received "Standard".
The files are also left open in InDesign afterward instead of being closed. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?
Thanks.

Did you upgrade your Office / Word installation?
PDFMaker-compatible applications for Acrobat 7 with regards to MS Office:
--| Office 2000
--| Office XP
--| Office 2003
See:
http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/compatible-web-browsers-pdfmaker-applications.html
Be well...

Batch export text from multiple Indesign files, applying em and strong tags

Hi there,
I am struggling for a while now with the following workflow:
batch exporting all text (text only) as plain text, from multiple Indesign files, applying and for all the bold and italics (for instance: Molluptas verion nossum idist doluptatet maiorerum quiaspienit, cum erferiosapis eos expe nonsequas verumquae dolor sim eos doluptatiur autet lab idicili beatum deliquat).
Properly tagging the styles, will be too time consuming, as these documents are as old as 1998, have inconsistent untagged styles; it will mean to manually open up each file, assign tags for all styles (not to mention that might be some local overwrites).
This task is necessary to have all the archive, available on wordpress website.
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There may well be a script or you may have pay someone to write it. All I can tell you is that any text not mapped to a style will be a mess in the HTML code.
Can’t comment on Quark files. I have no clue what they’re capable of.
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Create PDF from a Word document within Acrobat

Hi!
I am having trouble to create a PDF from a Word document within Acrobat itself, and not by using PDF Maker in Word. When I try to create a PDF using Acrobat, it gives me the choice to choose any Office format file, but Word format doesn't appear. I can convert from an Excel document or a PowerPoint document, but not from a Word document, even if Word 2010 is installed and works perferctly. Why?
I know I can make a PDF in Word itself by printing to the Adobe PDF printer or by using PDF Maker, but I want to resolve the issue in Acrobat that prevents me to select a Word document in the Create PDF dialog window. You can see the dialog box in the screenshot attached.
Any help would be appreciated.
I am using Acrobat X version 10.1.8 on Windows 7 Home Premium and I have Office 2010 installed (with Word 2010).

Thanks for your reply. PDF Maker works in all of my Office applications. However, in Acrobat, the file formats available for me to create PDF from figure all the Office file formats except the one for Word. This is not normal. At my school, Acrobat X and Office 2007 are installed, and I can use there both PDF Maker in Word and creating PDF from Word document within Acrobat.
So I think maybe there's a key in my Windows registry that is not set correctly? or something like that. I repaired the installation of Office 2010, and I did so for Acrobat X too, but it doesn't help. Any idea of how I can resolve that?

Problem creating pdf from multiple files

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I'm running Windows XP SP3 with Adobe Acrobat Standard 8.2.1. When I try to create a one pdf from multiple files in Adobe Standard 8.2.1 the application just closes. The two files I'm trying to combine into 1 pdf file are word files. I'm able to create a single pdf of each word file by opening them separately in word and sending them to the acrobat printer. I've tried combining other files also, but had no luck. Windows events doesn't log anything under applications and no error message pops up when the application closes.
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I've read many discussions about Acrobat and problems with server files, with the general solution being what you are doing... copy the files to a local hard drive

Acrobat 8 - Create PDF from multiple images, they all come in bigger dimension

I have 9 TIFFS that are 1000 x 750 in size, 72 DPI. This is confirmed when I open them up in Photoshop. When I create a PDF from multiple files in Acrobat, they all come in much bigger in dimension. The resulting PDF is very big in dimensions.
I have searched the Internet and searched the Help/Manual and can't seem to fix this.
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Scot

Scot,
Try going to Acrobat > Preferences > Page Display > Resolution and reset to 72 pixels / inch. I hope that helps!
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Creating pdf from multiple word docs standard 6.0

every time i open standard 6 it says it is
configuring, when i try to create a pdf from multiple files it says " unable to find adobe pdf resource files" running repair does not help,
I have edited prefernces and selected microsoft office, have uninstalled adobe reader 9 and reinstalled but was unable to choose a specific path and still have same issue.
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Unfortunately can't do that my acrobat part ofva bundle and if I
reinstall o can't reactivate it
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Batch processing / Creating Pdf from multiple folders

Need to convert some 50 folders each containing 100 jpg files into pdf. Up to now I made this via "Create pdf" each folder separately.. I tried to do this as a whole via "batch processing" but the sequences in there do not foresee the automatic creation of these folders. Any solution to this ?
Am working with Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Pro and Windows Vista Ultimate
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can you move all the folders to a main folder then you can have the batch point to the main folder then create another folder for the pdf to go into.

Creating pdf from multiple docs in PS8

i need to create a multi page PDF docs from multiple docs using photoshop elements 8. source docs will be other formats (e.g. MS WORD), but i could convert to pdf.
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Yes you can open Writer (the word processing/text module) and use it like a blank word document. You can copy and paste from other sources, import image files, tables and objects and save as PDF.
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Creating PDF from multiple files results in file name AND chapter name both appearing in TOC.

And all the bookmarks in that chapter nest directly under the file name. I would rather have just the chapter title appear with no file name in the TOC and the chapter bookmarks nested under that.

Hi tekwrite1955,
This is an expected behavior. When you create a pdf from any file it will list the filename in the TOC.
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Creating PDF from multiple files

I have dowloaded a 30 trial version of CS4. I make large PDF files from 12 x 12, 300ppi images - anywhere from 20 to 100 files. It all works great in CS2.
It's not working at all in CS4. I see the output with choices for web or pdf and have tried using the PDF, however it didn't work. It created a file with corrupt images. I want it to work like it used to...
Is there another way to make a pdf file? This seem to be geared toward creating preview files, not large files for professional printing.

If you make PDF presentations out of Bridge, you are inserting compressed JPEGs into the pages with no control of compression, color management, bleeds or other Press requirements.
You need to use InDesign for this purpose.
A PDF containing a page-sized image and created in InDesign for Press Output made a 26 MB file;
The same sized document created in Bridge/Presentation made a 4 MB file.
That indicates where your image-quality went!

Acrobat Pro 9.1 no longer creates PDFs from Word 2007

I upgraded from Acrobat 7 to 9 specifically to gain more control over settings when making PDFs from Word 2007. This worked as I had hoped until the 9.1 vulnerability upgrade was installed. Now it will no longer create PDFs from Word 2007 documents at all.
From within Word 2007, when I click on "Create PDF" (whether in the Office menu or Acrobat toolbar) it asks for a file name, but after I click "Save" does nothing. This is true even for the simplest possible document, using the "Default" settings for PDF "Preferences."
If I right click the file name of the document in Windows Explorer, with Word 2007 closed, and click on "Convert to Adobe PDF" in the menu, it starts and the staus box comes up, but after a few seconds quits and displays "An unexpected error occurred. PDFMaker was unable produce the Adobe PDF."
I can still "Save As" PDF in Word 2007, but this gives me little control over the format.
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Error message when creating PDF from Indesign and Photoshop

Hi, I reinstalled my Adobe CS2 product, and now get an error message each time I create a PDF from either InDesign or Photoshop. The message reads:
The instruction at "0x0045c9e5" referenced memory at "0x0215ebdc". The memory could not be "read".
I appreciate any help in resolving this issue.
Thanks --Alex

How do you create the PDF? There are multiple ways and it might make a difference.

Create multiple PDFs from multiple files

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I'm trying to use the "Create multiple PDFs from multiple files" function in Acrobat 9 Pro (version 9.4.6) to create about 100 PDFs from InDesign CS5 files. Theoretically this would do the trick for my purpose. BUT: When running the function, it does not use the CS5 InDesign (version 7.0.3), but tries to open the files with InDesign CS3. Of course this does not work. We, as a professional working agency, have installed CS3, CS4 and CS5. Even with making the InDesign CS3 .app invisible an pushing it into the garbage bin during the process did not work. Acrobat still wants to access InDesign CS3. It is not possible to downgrade the files to CS3 files, for there are special (i.e. interactive) functions which only work in CS5. It would be more work than creating the PDFs manually, anyways.
Does anyone have similar issues? Any ideas how to solve the problem?
Thanks in advance.
Thinka

OK, cool, I found one, which seems to work just fine.
http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/batch_convert_cs3.html
found here:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3712434#3712434
Thanks for the hint!

Any Tutorial / Sample to create Single PDF from multiple source files using PDF assembler in a watched folder process.

Any Tutorial / Sample to create Single PDF from multiple source files using PDF assembler in a watched folder process. I have a client application which will prepare number of source files and some meta data information (in .XML) which will be used in header/footer. Is it possible to put a run time generated DDX file in the watch folder and use it in Process. If possible how can I pass the file names in the DDX. Any sample Process will be very helpful.

If possible, make use of Assembler API in your client application instead of doing this using watched folder. Here are the Assembler samples : LiveCycle ES2.5 * Programming with LiveCycle ES2.5
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