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Re: Moving Master Page Items (AS)

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From: Steve Nichols
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 22:54
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I have modified a little shift script I use to adjust items left and right on document pages to move items on master pages... it goes like this:

display dialog "Please enter the first page number to shift:" default answer ""
set theCount to text returned of result as number
display dialog "Please enter the last page number to shift:" default answer ""
set thefinalcount to text returned of result as number
display dialog "Please enter the left hand page shift amount:" default answer ""
set myleftshift to text returned of result as number
display dialog "Please enter the right hand page shift amount:" default answer ""
set myrighttshift to text returned of result as number
tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
	set mydocument to active document
	repeat with i from theCount to thefinalcount
		tell mydocument
			if i mod 2 = 0 then
				move page items of page i of master spread 1 by {myleftshift, "0mm"}
			else
				move page items of page i of master spread 1 by {myrighttshift, "0mm"}
			end if
		end tell
	end repeat
end tell

This only shows how to move items - it would need more work to be useful...

Hope this helps

Steve
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