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Re: select layer page items

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From: Dave Saunders
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 20:48
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When you say "select" do you literally mean that or are you just trying to get a list of references to all the items so you can operate on them?

For example:

tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
 tell document 1
  set myLayer to layer "LayerName"
  set myPIs to every page item whose item layer is myLayer
 end tell
end tell

This might not be quite what you want, but I hope it points you in the right direction.

If you only want to work on the active spread:

tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
 tell document 1
  set myLayer to layer "LayerName"
 end tell
 tell active spread of active window
  set myPIs to every page item whose item layer is myLayer
 end tell
end tell

And, if you really want to select them, then replace that set myPIs with "select" when telling the active spread.

Dave
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