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Creating text on a new page

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From: John Darnell
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:54
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I have the following code:

on MakeTextBox(BoxNum, TopCoord, LeftCoord, RightCoord, BottomCoord)
tell application "InDesign"

set CurDoc to active document
   tell CurDoc

set PageCount to count of pages

-- Always working on the last page
      -- If I use this number, or at
      -- least, that's the theory.
      tell page PageCount

make text frame with properties {geometric bounds: {TopCoord, LeftCoord, BottomCoord, RightCoord}, label:BoxNum}
     end tell
   end tell
end tell

end MakeTextBox

I use this at various points to create a text frame. The idea is that I create a page, put some text frames on it, then create a second page and put some text frames on it, etc.

If I create page 1, and then call this handler to create the text box, it works fine, but if I create page 2, then call this handler, it creates the second box on page 1 as if I am not using the index at all.

Anyone have any ideas about what I am doing wrong?
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