Can you export masters only - Indesign CC?

[vickiw26317164]

Is there a way of exporting to PDF from Indesign CC the master pages only? Without adding them to Pages?

[John Mensinger]

No, not directly.

PDF export only applies to document pages. You'd have to add blank pages, apply masters, and export only those pages.

It's hard to imagine a scenario in which master export would be useful. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

[vickiw26317164]

Thats what I thought, thanks John.

I've been given an indesign file with 133 master spreads, used as a library previously where relevant masters get moved in/out of other indesign files to create brochures. I now need individual copies of each of these masters and didn't particularly want to apply each master to a page to be able to do so.

[rob day]

It would be fairly easy to script. What OS are you using?

[rob day · Accepted solution]

If you are using OSX this would do it

tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2014"

    tell active document

        set m to every master spread

        repeat with i from 1 to count of m

            make new spread with properties {applied master:item i of m}

        end repeat

    end tell

end tell

[vickiw26317164]

This worked a dream Rob! Thank you so much.