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Re: Applescript: make a text frame on a master page

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From: Carl Davaz
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 13:57
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Shane, 

My wheels are turning with this one. It seems that by having a disciplined layout style and consistent label naming convention you could control a lot using this approach in recreating design styles.  

You've pointed out the use of label naming conventions before. Do your scripts have an overall scheme of naming items or are they more case-by-case specific? 

With the current Spread 2 example I used layout elements with script labels Photo, Caption and Credit. (This was the same convention on all Masters in the document). Would your labeling strategy be to append a number to the labels for additional similar layout elements like Photo2, Caption2, Credit2 or go even further by also identifying the spread (from which the element came) by including that reference like S2Photo2, S2Caption2, S2Credit2 (for Spread 2 Photo2, etc.)? 

Am I thinking too hard about stuff like this?  

It seems like the more you plan this way, the more you'd know about how to control what you do with scripting. 

Carl
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