Read Bleed Settings in AI CS4

Question

Is there a way to read the bleed settings of a document in Illustrator with applescript.
The only way I found was to get the art and bleed boxes from the saved file and re-compute the bleed settings.
Yhanks.

Answer 1

A bit rough but works with a couple of sample files that I have…
var pdf = new File('~/Desktop/Bleed_CS5.ai');
var pdfBoxes = getPDFboxes(pdf);
var bleedTop = Math.round((pdfBoxes.MediaBox[3] - pdfBoxes.TrimBox[3]) / 2.834654);
alert('Bleed Top: ' + bleedTop + 'mm');
var bleedBottom = Math.round(pdfBoxes.TrimBox[1] / 2.834654);
alert('Bleed Bottom: ' + bleedBottom + 'mm');
var bleedLeft = Math.round(pdfBoxes.TrimBox[0] / 2.834654);
alert('Bleed Left: ' + bleedLeft + 'mm');
var bleedRight = Math.round((pdfBoxes.MediaBox[2] - pdfBoxes.TrimBox[2]) / 2.834654);
alert('Bleed Right: ' + bleedRight + 'mm');
function getPDFboxes(f) {
     var pdfBoxes = new Object();
     try {
          f.open('r');
          var str = f.read();
          var b = str.match(/BleedBox\[\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\]/g);
          if (b != null) pdfBoxes.BleedBox = b[0].match(/\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}/g);
          var a = str.match(/ArtBox\[\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\]/g);
          if (a != null) pdfBoxes.ArtBox = a[0].match(/\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}/g);
          var m = str.match(/MediaBox\[\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\]/g);
          if (m != null) pdfBoxes.MediaBox = m[0].match(/\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}/g);
          var t = str.match(/TrimBox\[\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\]/g);
          if (t != null) pdfBoxes.TrimBox = t[0].match(/\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}/g);
          var c = str.match(/CropBox\[\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\s\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}\]/g);
          if (c != null) pdfBoxes.CropBox = c[0].match(/\d{1,5}\.\d{1,5}/g);
          f.close();
     } catch(err) {
          f.close();
     return pdfBoxes;