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Bug When Overriding Master Page Items: Unexpected Shift of Master Page Objects

When overriding page items by script, those items are unexpectedly shifted and do not stay in the x/y position, they are on the master page. This differs widely from the UI-behaviour of InDesign.

There is a very good view and analysis of this bug from Marc Autret, which can be found here:
http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2014/06/indesign-scripting-forum-roundup-6#hd1sb2

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  • Dylan commented  ·   ·  Report

    Still a problem in Adobe InDesign CC 2024.

    I encountered this again with a document that was A4 Portrait and resized to A4 Landscape.

  • Dylan commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have used AppleScript countless times in the past using InDesign CC 2021, 2020 and 2019. I've just started writing a new script today using InDesign CC 2022 (I also tested in CC 2023) and the master page items aren't just moving a little, they are moving more than an entire page's width and height, completely out into no mans land on the pasteboard. --I've fixed my issue by building my document again from scratch. I tried export to IDML as a way to "cleanse" the file but that didn't help. My un-tested theory is it might have something to do with custom/manual page size overrides, I think the document that was originally causing the issue either had multiple page sizes or had been resized at some point.

  • Jeremy Bowman commented  ·   ·  Report

    I ran into this today. In my own case, overriding a master page text frame by script causes it to move horizontally 5.9mm — which happens to be the difference between A4 and Letter page sizes.

    A script that creates a Letter-sized document and overrides a master page text frame works fine on my Windows PC, but on my Mac causes the overridden frame to shift 5.9mm to the left.

    A script that creates an A4-sized document and overrides a master page text frame works fine on my Mac, but in Windows causes the overridden frame to shift 5.9mm to the right.

  • Uwe Laubender commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi Tobias,
    unfortunately the thread Marc Autret is linking to in his blog post does not work anymore.
    The related discussion did not make it to the new forum. What a pain!

    Fortunately I saved the thread before the new forum was started.
    I hope it gets through. Attached:
    Override-elements-by-script-problems.zip

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender
    ( ACP )

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