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• • August 13, 2014 at 4:35 am #70096
    dami0002

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    I am starting to layout a 300+ pages book and I run OSX 10.9.4 and Indesign CC 2014. I installed the script made available by David Blatner on this website and written by Olav Martin Kvern in order to move objects toward or away from the spine. After I created an indesign book file I simply added single documents to it. After adding for instance two documents and subsequently opening them, for the document added first, this script still works fine while for the second (and for all the other documents I could add) I get an error message:

    JavaScript Error!

    Error Number: 45
    Error String: Object is invalid

    Engine: main
    File: /Users/damiportinari/Library/Preferences/Adobe InDesign/ Version 10.0/en_US/Scripts/Scripts Panel/AdjustLayout_modified.jsx
    Line: 186
    Source: var myStartIndex =
    app.activeDocument.pages.item(myStartPageName).documentOffset;

    I could layout this book without using the book feature in InDesign but that would mean I would loose several things.
    I tried to solve this problem differently by downloading the trial version of the Reflective Objects plug in but when i run the installation I am not able to install it with InDesign CC 2014. I contacted the company but I haven’t heard anything from them yet.

    I would really appreciate if someone could point me to a different script or else as I really need it because when I insert an odd number of pages to my document my layout gets really messy and doing that for more than 300 pages it will be extremely time consuming.

    Thank you very much!

  • August 13, 2014 at 7:02 am #70097
    David Blatner

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    Are you saying that it works on the first document, but not on the second document of a book? I don’t think the script knows whether the document is part of a book — it just works on whatever document is open at the time — so this seems odd.

  • August 13, 2014 at 7:10 am #70098
    dami0002

    Member

    Hi,

    this is what is happening unfortunately in my case but it maybe be reproducible in other InDesign releases or in other computers as well perhaps. I thought that the script would not know if the document is part of a book or not but it gives me this error..

  • August 22, 2019 at 1:50 pm #14324241
    P R

    Member

    i have the same problem now on 2nd document of a book, any solution?

  • August 22, 2019 at 2:22 pm #14324240
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    PR: Are you getting that same error? Here are the original articles:
    https://indesignsecrets.com/move-every-object-on-every-page-toward-or-away-from-spine.php
    and
    https://indesignsecrets.com/adjust-position-of-objects-when-pages-reflow.php

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