Optimize the creation of large INDB exported as an interactive PDF

I'm running into some problems of speed when creating an InDesign book that is exported as an interactive PDF.  This process is be script using JSX and running on a server of InDesign CC.  I tried various combinations of settings for interactivePDFExportPreferences, and which none does not seem to make a difference.  I don't think that it takes as long InDesign to create the book itself, most of the time is spent by exporting it as an interactive PDF.

Some background information, a PDF page 'unique' for each page of the publication has already been created.  Most pages also took - what I call a superposition of hyperlink - another created INDD file containing rectangles with hyperlinks.  Each 'page PDF' is then imported into a new INDD and if there is a corresponding "hyperlink overlay" then it is duplicated on the top of the "single page PDF", then the result is recorded as a new INDD. The result is then an INDD for each page in the publication that will be used in the creation of the InDesign book.

Now that we have an InDesign doc for each page we create an INDB script and that will be exported as an interactive PDF.  Here comes my question.  Someone has suggestions to optimize the creation of a book of InDesing that is exported as an interactive PDF?  The PDF file takes a little over half an hour to create just for a 80 page publication.  Some of our publications are 300 + pages, so the time it takes to create this size of a book and export to PDF is unacceptable.

I would also like to note that the interactive PDF file that has been exported from InDesign book will be used with 3D issue online.  Added hyperlinks - hence the need for the interactive PDF - link ads/announcements in our publication on the 3D issue to the respective pieces of the inventory on our Web sites.

Another solution, I'm currently entertaining is thread creation of the InDesign book and splitting it up which would result in several small interactive PDF which then I would write something to combine them into a single PDF file.

with ( app.interactivePDFExportPreferences )
{
    exportLayers = false;
    exportReaderSpreads = false;
    flipPages = false;
    generateThumbnails = false;
    includeStructure = false;
    interactivePDFInteractiveElementsOption = InteractivePDFInteractiveElementsOptions.INCLUDE_ALL_MEDIA; //APPEARANCE_ONLY
    pageRange = PageRange.ALL_PAGES;
    pageTransitionOverride = PageTransitionOverrideOptions.NONE; //FROM_DOCUMENT;
    pdfJPEGQuality = PDFJPEGQualityOptions.HIGH;
    pdfMagnification = PdfMagnificationOptions.DEFAULT_VALUE;
    pdfPageLayout = PageLayoutOptions.SINGLE_PAGE_CONTINUOUS; //SINGLE_PAGE; //DEFAULT_VALUE;
    pdfRasterCompression = PDFRasterCompressionOptions.JPEG_COMPRESSION; //AUTOMATIC_COMPRESSION (same time using auto, but resulting file is 2x the size)
    rasterResolution = 192; // No time diff between 144 or 192 DPI but there was a noticeable quality diff
}

Post edited by: Wayne Ritchie fixed the formatting of my snip of code.

Thanks for the reply.  I agree, the script itself is not the issue.  I was hoping that someone out there knew a small export/parameter preferably that would help me.  I know that the quality of some graphics or even PDF files would reduce the time it takes.  Reduce the quality of the graphics and the PDF output have been attempted.  However, 3D issue allows Zoom and when the output quality was reduced and a user zooms in it looks pretty bad.  Also, it doesn't give me enough compromise time/quality to justify reducing the quality.

However, I have found another solution.  PDFsharp is a great open source solution.  Instead of creating all INDDs using InDesign, create an INDB and export to a PDF file.  I can now create PDF files in the first place and use .NET and the PDFsharp library to combine all of the PDF files in a single PDF file.  This is a lot faster and without any sacrifice of quality!  I wish I would have looked into this type of solution before you spend hours trying to find a way to optimize the creation of the INDB.

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