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• • August 26, 2015 at 1:54 am #77560
    Design Dept

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    I’m sure this must have been covered before but I cannot find…
    I have a 70+ page document and want to delete all content on all of these pages so I can then save as a new document… How can I delete all the content at once without having to go to each page/select all/delete…..?

  • August 26, 2015 at 6:16 am #77564
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Create a new layer

    And delete the other layers.

    All items will be deleted.

  • August 27, 2015 at 5:08 am #77604
    Uwe Laubender

    Member

    Without removing any layer or creating any layer, the following ExtendScript (JavaScript) should do what you want:

    [code]

    app.doScript
    (

    removeAllPageItems,
    ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT,
    [],
    UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT,
    "Remove All PageItems | SCRIPT"

    );

    function removeAllPageItems(){

    //ExtendScript (JavaScript):
    var myDoc = app.documents[0];

    //Unlock all layers in case some or all layers are locked:
    myDoc.layers.everyItem().locked = false;

    //Unlock all page items in case some or all page items are locked:
    myDoc.pageItems.everyItem().locked = false;

    //Remove all page items in one go:
    myDoc.pageItems.everyItem().remove();

    };
    [/code]

    Hope, that the code formatting in the forum’s editor is working as expected ;-)

    Uwe

  • August 27, 2015 at 5:09 am #77605
    Uwe Laubender

    Member

    Darn. It did not.
    Remove [code] and [/code] from the beginning and the end of the script and give it a try.

    Uwe

  • August 27, 2015 at 8:57 am #77624
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    Is there a particular reason *not* to do File > New > Document ?
    Or to put it another way, what do you want to keep from the “old” document?
    If you need to keep master page items, styles etc, you could copy the master pages to a fresh new 70-page document, and import the styles from the old (using Load Styles from the panels).

    Chris.

  • August 27, 2015 at 12:26 pm #77644
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    You could copy the master page items to a new layer, then delete the old layers too :)

    If you need to keep the same styles you can load styles using the Paragraph Styles sub menu

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