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Armin--

Working with master page items is a bit of a problem--if you try to use:



set myTextFrame to (master page item 1 whose label is "TF1") 




InDesign will copy all of the master page items to your document page. The only safe way to refer to a master page item is by its index, but the index of the master page item object you want (from the document page's point of view) is not the same as the index of the page item on the corresponding master spread.

If I were writing your script, therefore, I wouldn't bother with master page items. Instead, I would simply create the text frames on the pages.

If, however, you still want to use master page "template" text frames, try something like the following:



tell application "InDesign 2.0.1" 
	set theMarginPrefs to margin preferences 
	tell theMarginPrefs 
		set column count to 1 
		set column gutter to 10 
		set margin top to 15 
		set margin bottom to 10 
		set margin left to 7 
		set margin right to 7 
	end tell 
	set myDocument to make document 
	tell myDocument 
		set theViewPreferences to view preferences 
		tell theViewPreferences 
			set horizontal measurement units to millimeters 
			set vertical measurement units to millimeters 
		end tell 
		set theDocPrefs to document preferences 
		tell theDocPrefs 
			set pages per document to 1 
			set page orientation to landscape 
			set page height to 297 
			set page width to 210 
		end tell 
	end tell 
	set ruler origin of view preferences of myDocument to page origin 
	set myMarginPreferences to margin preferences 
	repeat with i from 1 to (count every page of myDocument) 
		tell page i of myDocument 
			set myTextFrame to make text frame with properties {geometric bounds:{margin top of myMarginPreferences, margin left of � 
				myMarginPreferences, 297 - (margin bottom of myMarginPreferences), � 
				210 - (margin right of myMarginPreferences)}} 
		end tell 
	end repeat 
	setnewframe(0, 10, 10, 35, "Headline", "TF1", myDocument) of me 
	setnewframe(7, 10, 10, 35, "text under headline", "TF2", myDocument) of me 
	setnewframe(290, 87, 5, 35, "page ^#", "PF1", myDocument) of me 
	tell myDocument 
		repeat with i from 1 to (count every page) 
			my myOverrideMasterTextFrame("TF1", page i, "Label should be TF1") 
			my myOverrideMasterTextFrame("TF2", page i, "Label should be TF2") 
			my myOverrideMasterTextFrame("PF1", page i, "Label should be PF1") 
		end repeat 
	end tell 
end tell

--Handler for overriding master text frame. 
on myOverrideMasterTextFrame(myLabel, myPage, myString) 
	tell application "InDesign 2.0.1" 
		tell myPage 
			set myAppliedMaster to applied master 
			set myIndex to my myFindMasterItemIndex(myLabel, myAppliedMaster) 
			if myIndex is not equal to "Label Not Found" then 
				set myTextFrame to master page item myIndex 
				set contents of myTextFrame to myString 
			end if 
		end tell 
	end tell 
end myOverrideMasterTextFrame

--Handler for finding the index of the master page item. 
on myFindMasterItemIndex(myLabel, myMasterSpread) 
	tell application "InDesign 2.0.1" 
		tell myMasterSpread 
			repeat with myCounter from 1 to (count page items) 
				if label of page item myCounter is myLabel then 
					--The master page items index is the inverse of the page item index on the master. 
					return ((count page items) - myCounter) + 1 
					exit repeat 
				end if 
			end repeat 
		end tell 
	end tell 
	return "Label Not Found" 
end myFindMasterItemIndex

--Handler for creating a new master spread layout. 
on setnewframe(y, x, h, w, c, thelabel, myDocument) 
	tell application "InDesign 2.0.1" 
		tell master spread 1 of myDocument 
			--set the master spread to a single page spread 
			if (count pages) > 1 then 
				repeat until (count pages) = 1 
					delete page 1 
				end repeat 
			end if 
			tell page 1 
				set thenewframe to make text frame with properties {geometric bounds:{y, (210 - (w + x)), (h + y), (210 - x)}, contents:c, label:thelabel} 
				tell text of thenewframe to set justification to right 
			end tell 
		end tell 
	end tell 
end setnewframe 




Thanks,

Ole