Looking for a script...

Question

To print all open windows  in Illustrator CS5 (or illustrator files in a folder) then close the files. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

ok, here it is, I think if you're on a Mac, it should work. I'm having trouble printing CMYK in Windows, it has to do with my system color management settings. The script prints and closes all open documents and ***it will not*** save any changes, so use with care, save everything before running...it can be modified to leave the documents open, or to close them saving changes, it is your choice.
if you run the script with no documents open, it will prompt you to select a folder with ai files to print.
it should work one way or the other...I hope it works either way...let me know how it goes.
var docs = app.documents;
var docCount = docs.length;
// if there are opened documents, print them, otherwise ask for a folder to batch print
if (docCount>0) {
    alert(docCount);
    printOpenDocs(docs);
else {
var folder = Folder.selectDialog("Select Source Folder..."); // select folder
printFolder(folder);
// Prints and closes each open document
function printOpenDocs(docs) {
            for (j=docCount-1; j>=0; j--) {
                var jdoc = docs[j];
                jdoc.print(options);
                jdoc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
function printFolder(folder) {
    if (folder==null) {
            alert("Good Bye");
    else {
        var files = folder.getFiles ("*.ai"); // get files
        var fileCount = files.length; // count them
        if (fileCount>0) {
            for (i=0; i<fileCount; i++) {
                var idoc = app.open(files[i]);
                idoc.print();
                idoc.close();
        else {
            alert("There are no Illustrator files in this folder.");