Script to open SVGs in a folder and save them to one multipage PDF

Question

Hi.
I'm using Illustrator for work and I love it, I never needed scripts yet.
Now I have couple houndred svgs coming in per day,
I would like to have a script that opens every svg one by one in the selected directory and add them to a pdf
as pages of the same size and than save it.
Is this possible? How many files I could put in 1 pdf this way?
I'm using Illustrator CS5 on Win7 x64.
Thanks in advance.
Istvan

Answer 1

I think there is a 100 file limit on artboards ( not tested ) but the size would also affect that… You can't straight place *.svg but you can make group from them would that do you?
#target Illustrator
function filesToArtboards() {
          // My function variables…
          var doc, fileList, i, inFolder, mm, svgFile;
          // Get the user to select a folder
          inFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Please choose your Folder of files to place…' );
          // Check they ain't cancelled
          if ( inFolder != null ) {
                    // Gets just the SVG files…
                    fileList = inFolder.getFiles( /\.svg$/i );
                    // Make sure it has AI files in it…
                    if ( fileList.length > 0 ) {
                              mm = 2.83464567 // Metric MM converter…
                              // Set the script to work with artboard rulers
                              app.coordinateSystem =
                              CoordinateSystem.ARTBOARDCOORDINATESYSTEM;
                              // Add new multi-page document
                              doc = app.documents.add(
                                         DocumentColorSpace.RGB,
                                         width = 148.5*mm,
                                         height = 210*mm,
                                         numArtboards = fileList.length, // The number of SVG files
                                         DocumentArtboardLayout.GridByCol,
                                         artboardSpacing = 20*mm,
                                         artboardRowsOrCols = Math.round( Math.sqrt( fileList.length ) )
                              // Loop thru the counter
                              for ( i = 0; i < fileList.length; i++ ) {
                                        // Set the active artboard rulers based on this 
                                        doc.artboards.setActiveArtboardIndex( i );
                                        // Create group from SVG
                                        svgFile = doc.groupItems.createFromFile( fileList[i] );
                                        // Move relative to this artboards rulers
                                        // Top Left
                                        sgvFile.position = [ 0, 0 ];
filesToArtboards();