Copying master pages between documents.

I Am laying out a book with 36 chapters and I formatted my master page and completed Chapter One. Chapter Two is a new document and I want to carry over Master-A to each successive one. I believe there must be a way to do it, but nothing I have tried works. I am using Windows 7 and InDesign 5.5, version 7.5.

I created a new master page template and added my first chapter to it. Everything except the chapter title from the master page footer appeared on the pages. I went to the master pages and deleted the chapter title and then replaced it and reapplied the master to all pages. The chapter title still did not come up on the document pages.

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How to move pages between documents WITHOUT elements shifting

Hi everyone! My team members and I are so frustrated over what I think should be a really simple issue: copying/moving/dragging pages between documents and NOTHING CHANGING.
Whenever we move pages between documents (which we have to do on a monthly basis - moving content into client branded files), at least ONE thing will shift and it usually has to do with overset text and/or text wrap. We have googled our brains out. We've tried everything on this list How-To: 10 Techniques for Copying Pages Between InDesign Documents | CreativePro.com and in the various Lynda tutorials we've looked at. We have combined our powers and still can not solve this problem so now I come to you, hoping that you can please please please help us figure out this issue before one of us throws a computer out the window.
We have this one document. And this is what one of the problem pages looks like. Everything is on one layer. (look at the section marked 5)
Then I move the pages (copy/paste the content; drag and drop the pages; etc.) into the destination document so we can apply branding.
AND THIS HAPPENS.
WHY does this text suddenly become overset?
The preferences of both documents are IDENTICAL. In fact, Document B was originally created from Document A.
AND FUN FYI: I took Document A and Saved As a new name. Opened it the new name. And tried moving the pages into the newly named document -- and the SAME EXACT THING HAPPENED.
I am going to bash my head into a wall. Can someone please shed some light on this? Have you seen this before? How do we fix it??

aschwartau wrote:
Doesn't saving as IDML lose some of the properties if you use any shadow or other effects?
That's not something that I have ever heard, but since I haven't heard everything, I suppose it's possible. What you may be thinking of is that some people use idml to migrate a file to a lower version, and if that lower version lacks a feature of the version that created the file, you will either lose or modify the way that that feature worked in the original. I don't think that even in that scenario that a feature that was present in both versions would go away just because it took a trip through idml to get to an earlier version. And if idml botched shadow or effects, nobody would use it, and I don't think Adobe would have it.
aschwartau wrote:
If we had just done a final Save As on the Document A before giving it to the team member who's going to be copying the content into Document B, does that not count as doing a Save As? You mean the minute it's freshly opened try doing another Save As? (P.S. Edit: Just tried this. Didn't change what happened. )
The thing that Save-As does is remove little bits of data associated with undos that a normal Save retains. Sometimes this data can lead to problems, so any time you do it, it will help, but if you do it at stage 37 and you hand off at stage 38, you will have cleared out most all of anything that may have built up over time. I don't want to give the impression that it is required, but it certainly doesn't hurt, and is probably a good idea to Save-As periodically.

Reader XI, placing blank page between document pages?

I have Adobe Reader XI, Version 11.0.2. In the last two weeks one our agents readers started placing a blank page between document pages. We have re-installed the product a couple time, reset standard defaults, and it is stil placing blank pages between document pages. Any ideas to rectify the problems. Every document he pulls up this happens.

Can you give us a link to a document with these pages?
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Why does the frame color change to black when I copy and paste between documents?

Copying and pasting between documents in Indesign. The color of the text stays the same but the lines and frames change from a specified color to black. Also changes when I drag and drop can anyone tell me how to fix this?

You have not provided any exact information like what version of ID, system info, paragraph styles, color definitions and whatnot, so we can't know what is going on. either way, ask in the ID forum and provide all those important details.
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Indesign CS6 crashes when copying pages between documents

I have two documents and I want to copy 28 pages from one to the other. Indesign crashes on any form of attempt. What I tried so far:
1. Copy pages per drag and drop, ID would then ask where to insert, I selected "at the end". Crash.
2. Save both documents as IDML, then opened the IDMLs, saved as INDD (to erase possible document structure corruptions), closed and opened both INDDs again, then drag and drop. Crash.
3. Selected the 28 pages from the source document, selected "Insert pages" from mini menu of pages panel, then set what pages to use, where to put ("At the end") and target (the other document). Crash
4. Tried both, "Insert pages" and drag 'n drop, with different target position "At the beginning". Crash.
5. Saved a copy of the source document, reduced it to contain only those 29 pages I want to copy, then drag and drop to target. Crash.
6. Tried vice versa, means copy all target document's pages to the source document. Crash.
Any idea how I can get the pages over to the target? There is unfortunately no "Append pages from file" in the mini menu.
TIA!

I would try another one with each of these documents.
Create a new document with 2 pages.
Name the master pages so, that their names are not conflicting with neither of these 2 document’s masters.
Delete every style in that empty document, also any swatch
No drag the pages of the first document into such an empty document.
Do the same step 1 to 4 with the second document in a NEW empty document.
Now you have 2 new documents. Take care that no conflicting master names appear.
In each of these documents create in each style panel a folder and drag all used styles in that folder.
Save both documents
Try again to insert the pages of both documents.
Otherwise, it this does not work out, could you send me via private message the files or a link. I would check it with a Debugging Version of InDesign (InDesign DEV) I can use to find errors.

Copy pages between documents

Hello there,
I'm trying to compile a final .indd file based on different documents pages. To do that, i'm loading a XML file with the names of the files I need and the page I need .
exemple of my XML:
<files>
     <file url="firstDoc.indd" page="2" />
      <file url="secDoc.indd" page="5" />
     <file url="thirdDoc.indd" page="1" />
</files>
There is no probleme to load that XML and parse it. I can open the file and get the right page, but I don't know how can I copy these pages in a single new document.
Is there any copy function ? or move function ? that can do that easily ?
I've got a function like that for now:
var myDocument = app.documents.add();
for(var i=0;i<(xml.file.length()-1);i++){
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If someone have an advice or a part of a script, I'll be really thankfull.
Cheers.
Gael

This should get you started:
if(app.documents.length < 2) {
    alert("Must have two open documents");
    exit();
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var myDocTwo = app.documents[1];
var myPage = myDocOne.pages[0];
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Move or Copy pages between documents

In the Adobe Help Menu it says... If you copy a page from a document that has a different size than the document you are copying to, it will be resized to the dimensions of the destination.
I can not get this to work. Can copy from doc to doc, but ad size remains the same. Any help with this please.

Yup, I think you're right Mr. Mike. I also think that they are trying to make "it" sound like they're making water into wine! Like I said, I'm just plumb frustrated w/trying to learn this program 2day. I'll do better 2morrow... I hope! Thanx all for your help.

Move pages between documents

Hi!
How can i move a page between two documents?

Hi Adam,
Lets say you want to replace page -2 in document -1 with page-2 from document 2.
- Open Document -1 in Designer.
- Without closing Document -1, open Document -2 in designer.
- Goto designer view in document 2. Navigate to page-2. Right click > coly (Note: It will be copied as a subform).
- Goto Document -1. Go to the hierarchy. Select Page-2. Delete.
- In page-1 . Paste. The page-2 would be pasted as a subform.
- Drag the subform in the hierarchy and rename as Page-2.
Second option: If you want you can also use page-2 of document -2 as fragment and embed it in document-1
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Thanks.
Bibhu.

Copy paste text between documents bug

Hi
When I copy paste styled text (text or text containers) between CS6 (or CC) documents, the language for the text changes to a wrong one (from Finnish to English: British), along with the spelling of course. The style does follow correctly to the fresh new document, but ID makes an exception to the style for this pasted text (Style1+). The transferred style itself still has the correct language defined.
Doesn't happen when copy pasting within the same document.
All default languages are correct (default and within styles). Deleting preferences did nothing.
Anyone else has this? Any suggestions on how to correct this. I seem to remember there was something like this ages ago too.

Thanks Uwe
• New user: no help.
• Save as or IDML: no change, same problem.
• Snippet: language does remain correctly Finnish!
• ID5.5: no problem at all! Language remains correct.
So, this is my persistent problem:
• Any text with a style on it becomes (as a local exception to style) wrong language when copy-pasted or dragged as a whole page between docs.
• The styles them selves transfer correct. Clicking style for each paragraph again sets the correct language (but the original local adjustments are lost).
• No style has [Basic Paragraph] as a parent and [Basic Paragraph]'s and the general default language are Finnish, too. The wrong language (English: British) is not used anywhere.
• Text with no style remains correctly Finnish (target default).
• IDML: same problem. Save As: same problem.
• IDMS: language remains correct.
• Trashing preferences doesn't help.
• New user account doesn't help.
• Effected versions: ID CC (9.1 fi), ID CS6 (8.0.2 fi). CS5.5 (7.5.1 en) is not effected. System is Mac 10.8.5 (fi).
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Copying SharePoint Page between SharePoint Sites with the MasterPage and Correct PageLayout

Hi All,
I have created a page in the following SharePoint Site Using a Custom SharePoint MasterPage and a Custom PageLayout.
https://devrussellportal.prod.ds.russell.com/sites/emeasandbox/Data-Governance/Pages/DataGovernanceHome.aspx
In this site I have a Page called 'DataGovernanceHome.aspx' in that site. I need to copy this page with the MasterPage and the PageLayout that I have used to build this Site Page to https://russellportal.prod.ds.russell.com/sites/datagovernance/ Site.
I was able to copy the MasterPage with all styles and images without any errors and applied successfully to the new site. I exported the desired page from the old SharePoint Site and imported to the new SharePoint Site via SPD. But when I tried to open the
page it gave me an error 'Sorry, something went wrong'.
I even edit the
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tag by updating the new SharePoint Site URL also. But did not solve the matter. So what is I am missing in here? Could someone help me to solve this matter?
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Hi,
Having moved the Master Page, Page Layout and other supporting branding assets successfully is a great first step.
So now you are attempting to move the content page. The content page itself is really a list item in the pages library. The aspects of a given content page are simply stored in site columns. When you copy the content page from one library to another using
SPD, I do not believe everything will transfer.
What you could try next is to open your source site in SPD. Navigate to the pages library and then detach your specific content page from its page layout (right click the content page to see this option). Now open this page in SPD to see all content.
Do the same thing in your destination site. First create a new content page in your destination site, then open SPD. Detach this content page from its page layout and now copy and paste the contents from source to destination. Save and see if the destination
content page loads. If it does, try reattaching the page layout on the destination site. As you noticed before, you may need to change a mso property to the new page layout location.
Another hiccup could be the specific web parts you added to the content page, but I can't say for sure. Possibly a webpart is attempting to access data it does not have access to?
All else fails, can you simply recreate the content page on the destination site from scratch, then copy content and add web parts in to effectively recreate the page by hand?
Eric Overfield - PixelMill -
ericoverfield.com -
@EricOverfield

Move pages between documents keeping threads

Hi all,
This is my problem. I'm trying to move several pages from different spreads into another document. I´m trying it this way:
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There it seems to do what i want... do they rethread the text frames there too?
Thanks Harbs.
Alvaro

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Thank you for your reply, but that doesn't seem to be doing anything for me.
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In that case you still have Pages '08/'09 in your Applications/iWork folder. Use that.
Apple has removed this along with about 100 other features from Pages 5.
All of this was news almost 5 months agao.
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I've asked this over on the acrobat forum but no response so I'm trying my luck here.
I've got a 500 page pdf that's 4 up.
And I"ve got a 1 page pdf 4 up that's the reverse for the 500 pages.
I'd like to insert the 1 page pdf in between each of the pages in the 500 page pdf, effectively giving me a 1000 page pdf.
I've tried Multipage importer along with another script to insert a master page between pages but honestly - it takes far too long to process a 500 page multipage import then insert a b master with the page and export back to PDF, taking well over 45 minutes.
Especially when I tried job no.2 with a 1500 page pdf where a pdf needs to be inserted between each of those pages.
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to install it, close acrobat, and then copy the script into this location (assuming you work on a mac using Acrobat XI)
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat XI Pro/Adobe Acrobat Pro.app/Contents/Resources/JavaScripts/collate.js
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