Script for Exporting 2 Pgs into 1 PDF???

Question

Hello, I was wondering if anyone can help me. I know there is a script that can export each page of Indesign file as a separate PDF, but is there a script out there to export every two pages of Indesign file.
Basically what I need to do is create 300 customized documents (based on personal company information) and Export them to a PDF so that I may e-mail one to each company. The document must be two pages, the first page has the personalized (merged) information, but the second page will be exactly the same on all of them.
Can you tell me how I can do this in Indesign, or if not Indesign, Acrobat? I ran a test with the Data Merge system in Indesign. (I created a .CSV file with 2 columns; Company Name and Company Product and took 5 five companies from the master list to test.)
After the merge, all the fields populated correctly but I wound up with a 10 page .INDD document. (the odd number pages are the ones with all the "merged" personal info, while all the even number pages exactly the same) What I need now is every 2 pages to be exported as 1 PDF file.
Is there is an easier way to do this? And if not in Indesign, is there an easy way to extract 2 pages at a time in Acrobat?
Thank you very much for any help, much appreciated,
Kevin

Answer 1

Hi Kevin,<br />Here is another version.<br />copy/paste into a text editor then save as a .jsx and place it in the script folder.<br />The only thing you have to modify is the name of your pdf preset. I thought about a dialog where tou could have switched frome one preset to another easily. But it may much more efficient to just modify the name of the preset. If you want you an also make a copy with another PDF preset then rename it.<br /><br />ad = app.activeDocument;<br />pg=ad.pages;<br />var docpath = ad.filePath;<br />var docname = ad.name;<br />var nb = (Math.round(Number(pg.length/2)))<br />for(i=0; i<nb;i++)<br /><br />{<br />]var pgrgstart = (pg[(2*i)].name);<br /><br />]if(pg[(2*i+1)]==-1)<br /><br />]{<br /><br />]]var pgrgend = pgrgstart;<br /><br />]}<br /><br />]else<br /><br />]{<br /><br />]]var pgrgend = pg[(2*i+1)].name;<br /><br />]}<br /><br />]app.pdfExportPreferences.pageRange = pgrgstart+"-"+pgrgend; <br /><br />]var myPDFExportPreset = app.pdfExportPresets.item("your PDF preset"); <br /><br />b //enter the name of your PDF preset instead of your PDF preset<br /><br />]ad.exportFile(ExportFormat.pdfType, File(docpath+"/"+docname.split(".indd")[0]+"_"+"pg_"+i+"_to_"+(i+1)+".pdf"), false, myPDFExportPreset); <br /><br />}<br /><br />alert("done");