Question

I just need a snippet to open and then save a file. It’s an illustrator PDF with linked artwork, problem being the linked files do not update unless I open then save the file and I am having to do this sooooo many times it’s making my brain explode.

Answer 1

Should be straightforward. I tested the following snippet in Illustrator CS3 (13.0.2) on Mac OS X 10.6.8.

set theFiles to choose file with prompt "Select the files" of type {"pdf"} with multiple selections allowed

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
    repeat with theFile in theFiles
        open theFile without dialogs
        save current document in theFile as pdf
    end repeat
end tell

The choose file command (which prompts the user to locate one or more files) is just one way of obtaining a list of files. You could just as well use

tell app "Finder" to set theFiles to every document file of folder "Macintosh HD:Full:Path:To:Your:Folder" whose file type begins with "pdf"

if you want to get all PDF files inside a specific folder.