Multi-Artboard export to multi-file PDF

Question

Hey gang.
I have an Illustrator CS4 document with 51 artboards.  I would like to easily export each artboard to its own PDF file based on a PDF preset.  Currently when I do save as I can select the indivual artboard and it will only save the content on that artboard to a PDF file.  However I don't want to do that 51 times for each design file (100+ design files).
Any thoughts on how to export a single artboard in a multi-artboard document to a single PDF file for each artboard in the file?
Cheers!
Tom

Answer 1

Well I ended up writing something to solve this problem.  I hope this snippet helps somebody else stuck in a similar situation.  This applescript saves each artboard as its own PDF file based on a pdf preset and flattener preset.
-- User configuration
set PDFPreset to " " ----------- YOUR PDF PRESETS HERE -------------
set PDFFlat to " " ----------- YOUR FLATTENER PRESETS HERE -------------
set DefaultLoc to " " ----------- YOUR DEFAULT SAVE LOCATION HERE -------------
-- User configuration
set theDesignName to " "
set destFolder to " "
set destFile to " "
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
    if (count every document) > 0 then
        if (count every document) > 1 then
            display alert "Please have only 1 file open in Illustrator to perform this PDF export."
        else
            -- what file is it and where do we want to export
            display dialog "Please enter the desired export filename name:" default answer theDesignName
            if button returned of result is "OK" then
                set theDesignName to text returned of result as string
                set destFolder to choose folder with prompt "Please select the folder to save " & theDesignName & " :" default location DefaultLoc
                set numArtboardsPrintable to count every artboard in document 1
                display dialog "Exporting " & numArtboardsPrintable & " individual files."
                -- Export the artboards to individual PDF files with a PDF presets
                repeat with incr from 1 to numArtboardsPrintable
                    set PDFExportSettings to {class:PDF save options, PDF preset:PDFPreset, view pdf:false, flattener preset:PDFFlat, artboard range:(incr)}
                    set destFile to destFolder & theDesignName & "-" & incr as string
                    save document 1 in file destFile as pdf with options PDFExportSettings
                end repeat
                display dialog "All done."
            end if
        end if
    else
        display alert "Open a document before running this script"
    end if
end tell