InDesign Keyboard Shortcut for Submenu Item

Question

I am attempting to make a keyboard shortcut for a particular menu selection in InDesign CS5. Particularly, I want to select an Adobe PDF Preset
("PDF/X-1a:2001") from the submenu. However, when I try select this in Keyboard Shortcuts, all I get is "Define" .. which of couse will bring me to the presets window. I want to be able to select a preset and assign a keyboard shortcut (in this case F15).
Does anyone have suggestions on how this can be done? I tried various ways, but still can't select anything from that submenu.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hey,
I agree with Cari! Using SHIFT while clicking on PDF preset name would speed up things! On the other hand, you can use scripting to define which export profile to use and choose destination folder. Great thing about the scripts is that you can assign custom shortcuts to them!
// Set PDF Preset name
var myPreset = "[PDF/X-1a:2001]";
// If not using CS5 or later, set this to: false
var usingCS5 = true;
/// --- DO NOT EDIT --- ///
if(app.documents.length)
    doExport();
else
    alert("No documents opened");
function doExport(){
    try{app.pdfExportPresets.item(myPreset).name}
    catch(_){
        alert("PDF Preset not found!\nPlease check name and try again!");
        exit();
    var myFile = (function(){
        var setFile = File.saveDialog ("PDF export based on " + myPreset + " ...", "PDF:*.pdf");
        if(setFile != null)
            return setFile;
        else
            return false;
    if(myFile != false){
        if(Boolean(usingCS5))
            app.activeDocument.asynchronousExportFile (ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, myFile, false, myPreset);
        else
            app.activeDocument.exportFile (ExportFormat.PDF_TYPE, myFile, false, myPreset);
All you have to set is PDF preset name and you are good to go! Also, you can save this script with different names containing different presets name and assign different shortcuts to every one of them.
Hope that helps.
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