Script to open, set dimensions and save

Question

Hi All,
I'm a newbie in Illustrator. I'd like to find a way to open a pdf file, set its new dimensions and after that, save the file in .AI format. Is that possible ? How could i achieve this ?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

OK, so here's another version of a script I posted the other day. Copy and paste into the ESTK or a text editor that will save as plain text. Save with a .jsx file extension. Place it in Adobe Illustrator CS4>Presets>Scripts and restart AI (or you can run it from the ESTK).
#target illustrator
Place_PDF_to_AI.jsx
DESCRIPTION
This script gets files specified by the user from the
selected folder and batch processes them and saves them
as AIs in the user desired destination with the same
file name.
Modified from Adobe supplied scripts and
scripts by Carlos Canto on Illustrator Scripting
by Larry G. Schneider 072911
// uncomment to suppress Illustrator warning dialogs
app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DONTDISPLAYALERTS;
var destFolder, sourceFolder, files, fileType;
// Select the source folder.
sourceFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder with target files', '~' );
// If a valid folder is selected
if ( sourceFolder != null )
     files = new Array();
     fileType =  prompt ( 'Select type of files to you want to process. Eg: *.pdf', ' ' );
     // Get all files matching the pattern
     files = sourceFolder.getFiles( fileType );
     if ( files.length > 0 )
          // Get the destination to save the files
          destFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder where you want to save the AI files.', '~' );
          for ( i = 0; i < files.length; i++ )
               var idoc = app.documents.add(DocumentColorSpace.RGB, 400.0, 533.0);  // make new document
               var ilayer = idoc.layers.add();   // make new layer
               ilayer.name = "pdf.file";  // name layer
               //ilayer.zOrder(ZOrderMethod.SENDTOBACK);  // put at bottom of layer stack
               var iplaced = ilayer.placedItems.add();  // add image place holder
               iplaced.file = (files[i]);  // place file
               var docName = (files[i].name.split('.'))[0];   // take the first part of the placed file name for the new document
               var destFile = new File(destFolder + "/" +  docName + ".ai");   // make a new file in the dest folder
               var options = new IllustratorSaveOptions();   // new save options
               options.compatibility = Compatibility.ILLUSTRATOR14;   // save as AICS4
               options.pdfCompatible = false;   // turn off PDF compatibility
               options.useCompression = false
               // Export as AI
               idoc.saveAs(destFile,  options);  // save the file in the dest folder
               idoc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);   // close the file without saving
          alert( 'Files are saved as AI in ' + destFolder );
     else
          alert( 'No matching files found' );
app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DISPLAYALERTS