topic Re: Export to PDF Data Driven Pages in Python Questions

Export to PDF Data Driven Pages

MichaelDeseo — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 21:30:42 GMT

Hi, I'm new to Python and trying to write a script that will do the following:

1. Loop through all mxd's in a folder and edit a Text Element named "SubTitle"
2. Save the mxd
3. Export each mxd to pdf

The problem is there are some mxd's with Data Driven Pages enabled, so I can't get the script to export ALL pages of a multi-page map. I wrote an "if-else" so that I can distinguish the multi-page maps from the single page maps. Everything else works fine except for the ddp map.

The error msg I get:
ddp.ExportToPDF(mxd, basename, "ALL")
AttributeError: 'DataDrivenPages' object has no attribute 'ExportToPDF'

See attached screenshot of the code.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]31200[/ATTACH]

Re: Export to PDF Data Driven Pages

ChrisPedrezuela — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 22:22:45 GMT

try ddp.exportToPDF

Hi, I'm new to Python and trying to write a script that will do the following:

1. Loop through all mxd's in a folder and edit a Text Element named "SubTitle"
2. Save the mxd
3. Export each mxd to pdf

The problem is there are some mxd's with Data Driven Pages enabled, so I can't get the script to export ALL pages of a multi-page map. I wrote an "if-else" so that I can distinguish the multi-page maps from the single page maps. Everything else works fine except for the ddp map.

The error msg I get:
ddp.ExportToPDF(mxd, basename, "ALL")
AttributeError: 'DataDrivenPages' object has no attribute 'ExportToPDF'

See attached screenshot of the code.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]31200[/ATTACH]

Re: Export to PDF Data Driven Pages

MichaelDeseo — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 23:25:49 GMT

Tried ddp.exportToPDF but no luck

Re: Export to PDF Data Driven Pages

ChrisPedrezuela — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 06:36:05 GMT

Did you use the correct inputs for that export function?

This small bit works actually,

if mxd.isDDPEnabled:
    ddp = mxd.dataDrivenPages
    ddp.exportToPDF(r'E:\test.pdf','ALL')

I have sample export code I did for my mxd's that are mixed DDP and normal ones:

for mxdDoc in mapList:
    mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(mxdDoc)
    base = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(mxdDoc))[0]

    print 'Checking if DDP'
    if mxd.isDDPEnabled == False:
        pdfName = os.path.join(outPath, base +'.pdf')
        arcpy.mapping.ExportToPDF(mxd, pdfName, '', resolution=300, image_compression='ADAPTIVE', layers_attributes='NONE', image_quality='BEST')
    else:
        if mxd.dataDrivenPages.pageCount <= 3:
            for pageName in pageNames:
                mxd.dataDrivenPages.refresh()
                pageID = mxd.dataDrivenPages.getPageIDFromName(pageName)
                mxd.dataDrivenPages.currentPageID = pageID
                pdfName = os.path.join(outPath, base +'_'+str(pageName)+'.pdf')
                mxd.dataDrivenPages.exportToPDF(pdfName, 'CURRENT', '', 'PDF_SINGLE_FILE', 300, 'BEST', 'RGB',True, 'ADAPTIVE', 'RASTERIZE_PICTURE', False, True)
        del mxdDoc, mapList
del mxd

Also you don't need to do "for" statement to get your text element since there is a wildcard.

Just try,

x = arcpy.mapping.ListLayoutElements(mxd, TextElement, 'wildcard')[0]

Re: Export to PDF Data Driven Pages

MichaelDeseo — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 06:36:07 GMT

Thanks for your help, I was able to get the code to work. I modified my inputs and you were originally correct in using 'ddp.exportToPDF' with the lower case 'e.' I had also changed to lower case 'e' in the else portion with the arcpy.mapping module but then kept getting an error there. I guess there is a difference between 'exportToPDF' and 'ExportToPDF' when using dpp and arcpy.mapping, which is pretty confusing. I also removed the 'for' statement like you said since it wasn't needed.

Below is the final code. Thanks again!

import arcpy, os
from arcpy import env


Workspace = r"C:\Users\mdeseo\Desktop\PYTHON_TEST"
arcpy.env.workspace = Workspace
mxdList = arcpy.ListFiles("*.mxd")
NewSubTitle = "THIS IS THE NEW SUBTITLE"

for mapdoc in mxdList:
    filePath = os.path.join(Workspace, mapdoc)
    mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(filePath)
    if mxd.isDDPEnabled:
        ddp = mxd.dataDrivenPages
        basename = filePath
        x = arcpy.mapping.ListLayoutElements(mxd,"TEXT_ELEMENT", "SubTitle")[0]
        x.text = NewSubTitle
        mxd.save()
        ddp.exportToPDF(basename, "ALL")
        del mxd
    else:
        x = arcpy.mapping.ListLayoutElements(mxd,"TEXT_ELEMENT", "SubTitle")[0]
        x.text = NewSubTitle
        basename = filePath
        mxd.save()
        arcpy.mapping.ExportToPDF(mxd, basename)
        del mxd
        
print "Complete"

Re: Export to PDF Data Driven Pages

Tommy_KurniawanSubianto — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 03:10:24 GMT

hi michael. can this phython code be used? I've tried but eror