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    • January 11, 2010 at 2:27 pm #54411
      Eelco
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      Wouldn't it be nice to place some empty frames on one or another masterpage as “guiding frames”. Fill these on some pages with some textual and graphic content and later, decide to turn around these (master)frames 180 degrees, by which will infect all frames -including it's content- on the other pages?

      I was in a situation the other day, were a client decided that she wanted to turn around all the graphics on the >100 pages. So I did, manually… Do you guys know a way to handle this?

      Edit: I'm using cs4.

    • January 12, 2010 at 12:15 am #54417
      Dwayne Harris
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      Well, if they were on the master page you would have to “release” it on the regular pages, and I don't think you could automatically roate them after that.

      But, if you had set up an “object style” for the graphic boxes, then that is one way. But that would only work, I think, if all the graphic boxes changed.

      Since you wouldn't know ahead of time which boxes would be changing (in this case it happened to be all of them, but next time it may not), I'm not sure.

      Object styles for the graphic boxes is the first thing that popped into my head.

    • January 12, 2010 at 12:33 am #54418
      Bob Levine
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      If you override a master item and bring it to a live page, it's still connected to the master page for any attribute you don't change.

      Example: you put a text frame on the master. You override it to bring it to the live page. You fill it with text and change the fill color to yellow but don't touch the size or location.

      Go to the master page and rotate the frame. When you return to the live page, the frame will be rotated.

    • January 12, 2010 at 1:06 am #54421
      Dwayne Harris
      Member

      Thanks for clarifying, Bob. I wasn't sure how that worked exactly. But the key thing (like you said) is don't change the size or locationof the box.

    • January 12, 2010 at 10:46 am #54426
      Eelco
      Participant

      Wow, thanks Bob. How could I've missed that -too simple to be true! Smile

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