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• • October 20, 2017 at 5:26 am #99130
    Anonymous

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    Hello folks,

    I am having 300+ indesign files, in that I need apply “A-Master” to 1st page of every indesign.

    Do you have any idea to make this work simple.

    Thanks,
    Murali S

  • October 20, 2017 at 1:36 pm #99148
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

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    Hi,

    You need a script … and, personally, not for free!

    (^/)

  • October 21, 2017 at 1:41 am #99150
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    i don’t want any script in free.

    Just want to know how to make this work as simple.

    If the only script is ideal one, then guide me how to create it.

  • October 21, 2017 at 1:43 am #99151
    Peter Kahrel

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    The script to do this on a single document is this simple one-liner:

    app.documents[0].pages[0].appliedMaster = app.documents[0].masterSpreads.item ('A-Master');

    Doing that on 300+ documents is a little trickier. You have two options:

    https://kasyan.ho.com.ua/batch_process_scripts/batch_process_scripts.html
    https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/batch_convert.html

    Peter

  • October 21, 2017 at 11:38 pm #99154
    Anonymous

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    Dear Peter,

    The code you provided is working fine at my end and the batch process is amazing too.

    Thanks for your wonderful help to get the work simple for me.

    May I know how to learn the simple script for indesign (using javascript). Could you please guide me on this. So that I will create the code and request help if needed.

    Thanks,
    Murali S

  • October 22, 2017 at 2:29 am #99155
    Peter Kahrel

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    This is a good starting point:

    https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/scripting-indesign-cs34/9780596803599/

    It has CS3/4 in its title, but scripting has hardly changed in recent since then.

    Peter

  • October 23, 2017 at 2:39 am #99166
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Dear Peter,

    Its a good one for learning script to the beginner.

    Am exists now on to this.

    Thanks,
    Murali S

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