Setting Flattener preferences when exporting PDF

Question

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to define a preset when exporting to PDF to make sure that layers transparency works properly independantly from what are the current presets in inDesign.
var app:Application = InDesign.app;
app.pdfExportPreferences.exportLayers = false; // Setting some other export preferences, no problem here
var flattenerPreset:FlattenerPreset = app.flattenerPresets.add();
flattenerPreset.name = "MyCustomPreset";
flattenerPreset.rasterVectorBalance = FlattenerLevel.LOW;
flattenerPreset.convertAllTextToOutlines = true;
app.pdfExportPreferences.appliedFlattenerPreset = flattenerPreset; // Crashes
Unfortunately this doesn't work and I get a mysterious error on the last line:
Error: The property is not applicable in the current state.
          at flash.external::HostObject/__set()
          at com.adobe.csawlib::CSHostObject/hostSet()
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

Hi Harb,
I tried to call it as a script like this this:
var app:Application = InDesign.app;
var script:String = ( <![CDATA[
  var flattenerPreset = app.flattenerPresets.add();
  flattenerPreset.name = "MyCustomPreset";
  var flattenerlevel = FlattenerLevel.LOW;
  flattenerPreset.rasterVectorBalance = flattenerlevel;
  flattenerPreset.lineArtAndTextResolution = 2400.0;
  flattenerPreset.gradientAndMeshResolution = 400.0;
  flattenerPreset.convertAllTextToOutlines = true;
  flattenerPreset.convertAllStrokesToOutlines = true;
  flattenerPreset.clipComplexRegions = false;
  app.pdfExportPreferences.appliedFlattenerPreset = flattenerPreset;
]]> ).toString();
app.doScript(script, ScriptLanguage.javascript);
Is that what you ment? But I get the exact same error ( Error: The property is not applicable in the current state. )