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• • June 28, 2022 at 8:33 am #14366991
    Olivier Murith

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    Hi,

    I have a weird question…

    I am designing a large-ish book, with a sewn binding, and I need to keep in mind the spreads where the stitches will be.

    I have multiples Parent pages, several different grids for various type of content, etc,. and a “Stitches” layer on top.

    The content is picture-heavy, I have a ton of images to start and play with and compose a large but still limited number of pages, so I tend to test, shuffle, make variations, etc, moving pages and spreads around.
    But doing that, obviously the Stitches layer moves also, and loses its purpose.

    Is there a way to lock once and for all a few objects on specific pages, but relative to their absolute pagination, so I can move around the pages, but keep these guides at their chosen place?

    Or a script maybe? That would delete all content on a specific layer, and rebuild it on specific pages every time I run it?

    Any hint, or any advice in that direction would be great, thank you.

  • June 28, 2022 at 1:46 pm #14367049
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Yeah, that’s a hard one. One way you might do it is to have some text on those pages, and assign a particular paragraph style to it. (Even if the text is on a non-printing layer.) Then you could use a script to look for pages with that paragraph style and apply the script to it. For example, this was written a while ago:

    Applying a master based on paragraph style

    
    Or you could do it with a commercial script, probably even more efficiently, such as MasterMatic:

    Mastermatic

  • June 29, 2022 at 12:15 am #14367051
    Olivier Murith

    Participant

    Thanks, I’ll have a look.

    The “apply master based on paragraph style” seems like an awesome trick to have, but I am not sure how it would solve my problem though. The styled text would move with the page, so the master would be applied to a moved page also, no? Or am I misunderstanding something?

    I would like to be able to keep these frames always on pages, say 8-9, 16-17, 24-25, etc. so even if I move the pages/spreads around, the stitches marks stay on the correct spreads.

    I’ll go and read more about scripting, I’ll try to write something to copy/paste a frame on specific pages.

  • June 29, 2022 at 10:11 am #14367056
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Ah… gotcha… the paragraph style trick probably wouldn’t work as well. Sorry. Not sure what I was thinking there.

    I think the best solution is to find someone to write a script that would simply apply a particular master page to those page numbers. When things get out of order, you would run the script and it would reset it.

    What would you want on the other pages? Just “Parent Page A” for all of them?

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