InDesign Script PDF Export Single Pages

Export an InDesign document to single-page PDFs using a selected PDF Preset. Much of my workload is magazines and books, projects that demand working in single pages because of the many page corrections over the lifetime of the project. Exporting the entire document every correction is not only a waste of time, it means regenerating PDFs of approved pages—a risk of error I’d rather avoid. Existing tools to generate single pages did not meet my specific desires, so I wrote my own script, shared here to help others with similar needs.

• Page labels at the beginning or end of output file names
• Absolute (document) numbering or by section
• Set minimum digits to prefix section and page labels
• Preview output file name before proceeding
• Export all pages, a single page, or any range or ranges of pages
• Export using any PDF Preset
• Immediate or background export
• Save and restore all settings
• User-configurable localization