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Ben,

What a great idea: duplicate pageItems and group the original and the duplicate so that all page items are of the same type. But you're making things very complicated. Your brilliant idea can be scripted simply as follows: on each page, duplicate each page item and group it with its original. Label the duplicates so that you can delete them easily later on:

doc = app.activeDocument; 
for (i = 0; i < doc.pages.length; i++) 
   { 
   p_items = doc.pages[i].allPageItems; 
   for (j = 0; j < p_items.length; j++) 
      { 
      dupl = p_items[j].duplicate(); 
      doc.pages[i].groups.add ([dupl, p_items[j]]); 
      } 
   }

Afterwards these two lines ungroup everything and delete the duplicates:

doc.groups.everyItem().ungroup(); 
doc.pageItems.item ('duplicate').remove()



Peter