Hello all. A notification email brought me back here so I thought I would share my little export panel that got an overhaul recently. There are a couple of export automation macros, but I feel many are so complex they make you NOT want to use them for smaller tasks.
Well, mine is the exact opposite - you very quickly set your options and export to desktop. That's it. Here's an example (click it, it's an animated gif):
Pick all pages or current page of all open documents or current document, set your image size as pixels or dpi, color depth and you are good to go. The grayed out image format is actually the active one.
It doesn't save settings as most of the time I need to prepare RGB jpegs for client approval so it defaults to that every time you open it. But it's also a perfectly usable powerful tool for exporting print files.
If nothing is selected it will export a pretty page-sized rectangle, if something is selected it will export that selection only.
Have fun!
This is an excellent macro!!
How can it be edited to pick where you want it to export the files to? We have a particular folder on a network drive that we save all jpg prelim files to and not to our desktops.
Our files are located at
S:\Artwork\e-mail
If we had an option or ability to change the location of the exported files, this would be great =)
Nasko said:What compression the macro puts on jpg files?
Compression 5, Smoothing 20. This gives a fairly pleasant result, but you can edit this if you search for "Compression" in the code.
Jason Moore said:This is an excellent macro!!
Enjoy! I would put some donations thing here, but I doubt that really works and I'm glad if it helps someone anyway.
Jason Moore said:If we had an option or ability to change the location of the exported files, this would be great =)
If you feel up to it:
If there's enough interest I can add a browse button, but that's a little against the speed idea.
Edit: If you add something to the "S:\Artwork\e-mail\" that will always be at the beginning of the file, so you can do S:\Artwork\e-mail\Jason " for example and you'll get files that look like "Jason 2014.09.23 13.05.51 - Untitled-1 - Page 4.jpg". Might help you if there are several of you saving the images to that folder.
That worked perfect Joe!
Now for some reason, it's onlt saving the current page even though I have it set to all pages.
Weird. This change shouldn't affect anything. Can you show you page structure? Or is this on any and all documents?
As I see the compression im macro code is from 0 to 12 and 12 is the best quality, am I right?
How can I change the sub-format if you use 4:4:2 because I preffer 4:4:4?
For JPEG files as far as I can tell compression acts like the opposite of quality in other software, so 5 is the same as 95% quality, thus lower number = better quality.
As for 4:4:4 subformat:
You'll have to edit the code a little as described above, add the .subformat line like this:
With Filter .Compression = 5 .Smoothing = 20 .Progressive = False .SubFormat = 1 ' 0 for 4:2:2, 1 for 4:4:4 .Finish End With
Thank you Joe!