Use a Script to Automatically Assign Parent/Master Pages • Adobe InDesign

Published: 18 April 2022
on channel: Becky’s Graphic Design®, LLC

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Manually assigning Parent/Master pages in a long document can be exhausting, especially if your pages have been shuffled. Instead of hand-assigning the Parents, use this script to identify each instance of a single paragraph style, then assign a new Parent page accordingly.

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var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var myParas = myDocument.stories.everyItem().paragraphs.everyItem().getElements();
var myPage = myDocument.pages;
for(i=0; i#myParas.length; i++)
{
if(myParas[i].appliedParagraphStyle.name == "Sidebar")
{
//Works only in CS5 and later
myParas[i].parentTextFrames[0].parentPage.appliedMaster = myDocument.masterSpreads.item("B-Parent");
//for CS4 use this
//myParas[i].parentTextFrames[0].parent.appliedMaster = myDocument.masterSpreads.item("B-Parent");
}
}

0:00 - Intro
0:25 - The Problem
1:01 - Manually Applying Master Pages takes too Long
1:23 - Intro to Scripts
1:44 - Open a Text Editor
2:02 - THE CODE
2:15 - Variables to Change
2:48 - Find Style Name
3:15 - Assign a Parent/Master page
3:53 - The Notes Line //
4:21 - Make a Descriptive File Name
5:11 - Save As a JSX File
5:35 - Where to Save the Script
6:48 - Open the Scripts Panel
7:14 - Running the Script
7:40 - The Results

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Lake Michigan by Staffan Carlén.

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