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Script to group all items on a layer on the active page

Mar 26, 2012 8:44 AM

Hi,

I am struggling to get the correct syntax for this bit of my script.

I need to group all the items on a slug layer of my indesign document, but only on the active page.

This is as far as I have got:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"

activate

tell document 1

set myItems to the active page's page items whose item layer's name is "Slug" --this line does not work

select myItems

set myselection to selection

make group with properties {group items:myselection}

end tell

end tell

I have tried many variations of this, but have not made anthing that works yet.

Any help would be much appriciated.

Thanks,

Matt

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1. absqua,

Mar 26, 2012 9:40 AM in reply to matt.white

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This seems to work:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
    activate
    set myDoc to the active document
    set myLayer to layer "Slug" of myDoc
    set myPage to the active page of the active window
    set myItems to the page items of myPage whose item layer is myLayer
    tell the parent of myPage to make group with properties {group items: myItems}
end tell

active page belongs to the layout window (which belongs to the application), not the document. Also—there's no reason to select the items; you can just add them to your group. And I think you always want to add the group to the spread rather than any other unit.

Jeff

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2. matt.white,

Mar 26, 2012 9:52 AM in reply to absqua

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Brilliant. Perfect. Thanks.

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