[CS3 AS] New spread with 2 or more pages at front

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4 total messages Started by Mike_Nieuwstraten Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:12

#1664

Author: Mike_Nieuwstraten
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:12

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Anyone knows how to (Apple)script to get a new spread with 2 or more pages at before page 1?
Just like what you would get when - in panel 'Pages' - you would drag a name of a masterpage (containing 2 or more pages) to the left of the first page (in the same panel) and the cursor is like a | (so not like a [ ).

Otherwise, what is the syntax for:
- making 2 or more new pages in one time based on a masterpage with the same number of pages?

Thanks,

Re: [CS3 AS] New spread with 2 or more pages at front

#1667

Author: Shane_Stanley
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:20

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tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
    tell document 1
        make spread at beginning with properties {applied master:master
spread 1}
    end tell
end tell


-- 
Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>
AppleScript Pro Florida, April 2009 <http://scriptingmatters.com/aspro>

Re: [CS3 AS] New spread with 2 or more pages at front

#1683

Author: Mike_Nieuwstraten
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:34

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Hi Shane (and others),

Thanks for your response.
I tried that with an existing document and that didn't work.
Made a new document and it worked for a masterspread containing 2 pages.

After investigating, the difference was that the new document had 'Facing pages' activated in document prefs.
So I turned that option on in the existing document: now it works as long there are only 2 pages in the masterspread.

'Unfortunately' I need it to work for 3 pages per spread.
I tried fooling around with

	tell document preferences
		set allow page shuffle to false --or true
		set preserve layout when shuffling to true --or false
	end tell

but made no difference.
Anyone any idea?

Re: [CS3 AS] New spread with 2 or more pages at front

#1689

Author: Shane_Stanley
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:08

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Have you tried making a spread and then making extra pages at the end of the
spread?

-- 
Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>
AppleScript Pro Florida, April 2009 <http://scriptingmatters.com/aspro>

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