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Lock Object to Right-Hand Page of Spread Only – No Masters

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    • #14333090
      Nora Cannaday
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      I didn’t do a terribly good job phrasing this before so I’m going to try again.

      This is a 512 page book (it will keep getting bigger indefinitely), its set up as a series of individual documents that are exported using Adobe’s book feature. It is obsessively styled and has master pages and all of the other bits and bobs set up.

      My challenge is that I have a series of objects that change vertical position document by document, but need to always stay locked to the edge of the right-hand page of a spread only. A text box is combined with that object and includes the abbreviated title of that document. They’re navigational tools for flipping through the over-sized book.

      Because these objects exist on every type of page: Front matter, chapter intro, etc… and change vertical position constantly, I don’t want to add the object to a master pages. It would quintuple my masters to create enough vertical variations and ultimately create too much duplication within the masters.

      So, how do I stick an object to the right-hand page?
      • I tried the object styles, but they allow you to position within a page, not on a spread.
      • I tried turning it into an anchored object since anchored objects can be positioned relative to the spine, but it still moved to the left-hand page, just mirrored now.

      Please help guys. I need an Obi-Wan

    • #14333228

      Hi Nora!

      I didn’t forget you! …
      I did it and will post a video on YouTube tomorrow!
      Simple and cool! ;-)

      (^/) The Jedi

    • #14333229

      Tomorrow is now … in France! =D

      Good movie!

      (^/)

    • #14333232
      Nora Cannaday
      Participant

      You Sir are amazing that script you just built is amazing. I cannot even tell you the extent to which you just made my whole week. I had almost resigned to doing this darned thing manually across more than 100 files.

      It looks like you did it with a script, is there somewhere I can get said script?

      Thank you again!

    • #14333233

      Another cool feature (not shown in the video) is that, after having create/insert all the “tabs” in the book, if the layout moves in one or in all the docs and/or you finally want to change the “tab” appearance (its number/gap between or various colors), just click again on “+Tabs” to update!

      Feel free to contact me on FRIDNGE if interested [paid script]

      (^/)

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