Modifying frame in master page

i have a two page master page set up with a frame on each page. i had to change the dimensions of the document, so of course i had to go into the master to change the frames to span the new width, but the problem is that the frame changes aren't showing up in the document. i don't want to have to modify each frame as the document is 104 pages long. HELP!

Back up to the orignal document and enable layout adjustment before
changing the page size.
Bob

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Help w. Text Frames in Master Page

Hi
I need to make a simple task, yet it seems impossible.
I am making a large number of documents of the same type and stlye. Lets say, something like a diploma or a certificate. They all have the same design, and the only thing that is different in them is the text in the 2 text boxes each one of them has. Lets say if we follow the certificate example that on each card I must put in the same two text boxes - "the name of the person" and "the date". So I must set a nice master page with 2 text boxes that I can fill in for each card. Since the design may change, I need to be able to move the positions of the boxes from the master page after I have filled them. I must also be able to change the case, font and other text properties of each box. For example, I when I would have done 1000 certificates and filled in respectively 1000 names and dates of receiving and then I would decide that I must place the box with the name on a different position on the page and also change the text properties, say from Times New Roman to Georgia. And to do it from the master page or any other effective way without changing each certificate.
So far, I managed to place the boxes on the master page, and I saw that I can overwrite the text in each certificate and still be able to move the position of all boxes from the master page. But I cannot find a way to change the text properties of all boxes.
Thank you for your help!

cecozzy wrote:
Hi
I need to make a simple task, yet it seems impossible.
I am making a large number of documents of the same type and stlye. Lets say, something like a diploma or a certificate. They all have the same design, and the only thing that is different in them is the text in the 2 text boxes each one of them has. Lets say if we follow the certificate example that on each card I must put in the same two text boxes - "the name of the person" and "the date". So I must set a nice master page with 2 text boxes that I can fill in for each card. Since the design may change, I need to be able to move the positions of the boxes from the master page after I have filled them. I must also be able to change the case, font and other text properties of each box. For example, I when I would have done 1000 certificates and filled in respectively 1000 names and dates of receiving and then I would decide that I must place the box with the name on a different position on the page and also change the text properties, say from Times New Roman to Georgia. And to do it from the master page or any other effective way without changing each certificate.
So far, I managed to place the boxes on the master page, and I saw that I can overwrite the text in each certificate and still be able to move the position of all boxes from the master page. But I cannot find a way to change the text properties of all boxes.
Thank you for your help!
With a long list of data items, you could consider using data merge. You'd need a template document; on its page create a placeholder text frame for each data item, like name and date, if they'll need individual positioning. Put a data placeholder in each frame. (It's also possible to insert multiple merge placeholders in a single frame.) You'd also need paragraph styles. If you have material that is the same on every page, put that on a master page in the merge template.
Search Google for terms like "InDesign data merge tutorial," and similar phrases, without quotes, for details.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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Facilitating List as a References of Navigation in Master Page

Hello.
I plan to modify the default master page in Sharepoint 2013 and one of the changes that I'll apply is to create some navigation that can be changed by the user anytime. I need this navigation to lookup its Label and URL in a List and possibly its corresponding
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Hi,
Per my understanding, you might want to create a custom Navigation with the functionalities you want when customizing the default master page.
As there is no such OOTB feature can meet your requirement, custom code using JavaScript and Client Object Model would be required.
As you may need to get the data for the Navigation bar from a list or library, the link below about how to work with list items using JavaScript Client Object Model would be helpful:
How to: Create, Update, and Delete List Items Using JavaScript
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/hh185011(v=office.14).aspx
Common Programming Tasks in the JavaScript Object Model
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/hh185015(v=office.14).aspx
More information about
customizing master page in SharePoint for your reference:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Customize-your-My-Site-master-page-a16c4d51-4284-42f0-a2d6-819289bdc400
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Patrick Liang
TechNet Community Support
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Modifying ExportAllStories to Exclude Master Pages

Hi,
I am using the ExportAllStories script that comes with Adobe InDesign CS 5. I would like to modify it so that it ignores items from the master pages.
Any direction you can give would be most helpful.
Thanks,
Steve

Are you talking about stories in text frames that are overriden from master pages, or that simply exist on master pages and show through?
If we're talking about the latter, it's easy enough. Take this part of the script:
for(myCounter = 0; myCounter < app.activeDocument.stories.length; myCounter++){
myStory = app.activeDocument.stories.item(myCounter);
and just add a check to see if the first text container associated with the story exists on a master page. Master pages have a documentOffset that is less than zero (generally -1, it seems). So add:
if (myStory.textContainers[0].parentPage.documentOffset < 0) { continue; }
and then that story will be skipped.

Edit Page options in ribbon disabled after applying modified Seattle Master Page

Hi,
I'm working on a modified version of the Seattle.master page, and I have an odd permissions issue that is seen when my user (a farm admin) tries to edit a page on the site. On some pages, clicking Edit Page doesn't do anything at all. On others, I've been
able to go into edit mode but not do anything with the Edit options afterward. In this scenario, most or all of the useful edit options are disabled, and I cannot use Save, Checkout, Discard the Checkout, Change the Page Layout, etc...
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<wssucw:Welcome runat="server" EnableViewState="false" />
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<div id="ms-designer-ribbon">
<PublishingRibbon:PublishingRibbon runat="server"/>
</div>
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as I've made a Design Manager Master Page in the past and placed the ribbon there as well without issue.
Does anyone know how I can get this modified Seattle master page to allow editing?

Hi,
Is there any custom JavaScript in it, sometimes error may occur due to some typo.
Suppose that we can do the customization like this: With a copied master page, we can apply a part of the change first, then check it in the browser to make sure it can work without affecting the OOTB features. Then apply other parts one by one with immediate
examinations...
By doing this, it would be easier to find out which step in your whole customization would cause the issue.
Best regards
Patrick Liang
TechNet Community Support

How to link a text box to an anchor frame in the master pages?

Ok, as the title states, we are trying to figure out if it is possible to link a text box to an anchor frame in the master page. When you look at our Master Page layout, we have a text box in the upper left hand corner of the left hand page, this is used for our machine serial numbers. Then we have an anchor frame that automatically fills out the figure number. Let's say I have pages 2 & 3 (left & right), they have a S/N at the top of the page for the machine, then pages 4 & 5 have a different S/N. If I have to add more pages in between pages 2 & 3 (bumping the current 4 & 5 to 6 & 7), the anchor frame bumps to the next page, but the S/N text box doesn't. Is there a way to fix it so that they both move to the next page? Thanks for the help.
P.S. I can include images and other info if needed.

I have included a two pictures that should help me explain.
Master Page:
This is the master page set up, the "Page Text Box" has the flow set to "B" while the S/N text box has the flow set to "A". This setup is for our parts manuals, the left page is usually an illustration while the right page is usually a parts list. The text box, anchored frame & paragraph tag are empty in the master page set up. The "page text box" has a flow of "B" and the "S/N text box" has a master flow of "A".
Body Page 1:
When we create new pages, the paragraph tag automatically fills in the figure title on the left page, then we add an anchor frame within the text box to hold the illustration. You will notice that I added in a "test" serial number at the top of the page. Now if I need to go back and add two pages before this, the anchor frame, illustration and parts list will move to a new page, but the S/N text box will not. The "Before S/N TBD" would stay on the original page.
This is what happens, the text box containing the illustration and the parts list "bump" to the next page, but the S/N text box does not. So the question we have is there a way to link that text box to the page so when we create new pages the S/N text box moves with the illustration.
Does this help?
Thanks for the assistance Error7103.

How do I modify the "Number of Pages" setting for an existing Master Page via javascript?

I'm learning javascripting for InDesign and I have been tinkering with the stock scripts in the tutorials. I'm developing the ability set properties and such, playing with how Javascript works, and I wanted to change the number of pages in a master page as part of an exercise. Does anyone know how to do this? I have been able to add new masters, controlling the number of pages in them with this:
myDocument.masterSpreads.add( {pagesPerSpread:2,} )
but what I really want is to modify the master that InDesign automatically generates with a new document, to have 2 pages. Granted, I can just start off with a document with facing pages, but I don't really see the fun in that...

Jump_Over wrote:
Hi,
check this:
var mSpread = app.activeDocument.masterSpreads[0],
count = mSpread.pages.length,
mSet = 2,
run = mSet - count;
// to avoid 0-page error
mSet = Math.max(mSet,1);
if (run > 0) {
          while (run --)
          mSpread.pages.add();
else while (run) {
          mSpread.pages[-1].remove();
          run ++
edit the variable mSet to modify pages length
Jarek
Message was edited by: Jump_Over I added Math.max filter to avoid errors
Thanks, this is exactly what I wanted. Well, almost. I wish there were a way to simply set the number of pages in a master spread to a specific number the same way there is in the interface, but this will work just as well.

CS4 auto page insert: master page frame or not

In CS4 the preferences for auto page insert allow to turn off 'limit to master pages'.
However, don't see much difference wether it is on or off. The Help file states that if you do NOT use master text frames, a new textframe should be inserted, one column between the margins.
Can not get this to work when limit to master pages is off. What am I misreading...?
(It is funny sometimes: I have 'delete empty pages' checked (it is on). Now make a document 3 pages long. OK, now draw a empty text frame on page one. Do the same on page 2.
Now connect both text frames: page 2 disappears. This is to be expected but be aware of this.
Now insert text in the textframe on page one that does not fit totally in this textframe: overset symbol appears.
Now where is page 2 that was 'auto deleted' and had the threaded text frame?
Nope, it does NOT appear again!
I admit I still have to get to grip with this, so what DOES the switch 'limit to master pages' on/off have for effect...)

Yes, I know. But maybe my point came over the wrong way. If you have auto page delete on, you have three pages and a textframe that spans page 1 and 2, but not yet text in it, and you connect the empty text frames, page 2 will disappear. Now fill page one with overset, page 2 won't do anything because it needs two pages.
Disable auto page delete and it will work.
Just wondering why it was designed this way, that's all ;-)

Master page graphic frame behavior

I am new to InDesign. I have created a master page that has 4 graphic frames on it. If I create a page based on the master and I try to place an image in each frame, it only works for the first frame. Each subsequent place just put the image into the page but not one of the defined frames setup in the master.
Can someone tell me why this happens? And if this is what it is supposed to do, how do I accomplish creating a page based on a master that has 4 frames to accept graphics.
Any help is appreciated.

I do not see these files because the path does not exist and i do not see where to show hidden files in system preferences. Can you elaborate?
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Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<USER>\Application Data\Adobe\InDesign\<Version #>\<language>\ (Note: Prior to version 6 [CS4] the language folder is not used).
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Problem with master page text frame

I am using ID 4 on a Mac with Snow Leopard 10.6.6. I have created a master with facing pages and master text frame. But the pages based on that master do not have any text frames showing. When I go to Document Setup the Master Text Frame checkbox is ticked, but the tick and the words "Master Text Frame" are greyed out.
I have deleted and reinstalled ID4 and have renamed the InDesign Defaults and InDesing SavedData preference files but no improvement.
I have to place or copy and paste quite a few pages and don't want to create text frames for every page.

Do you mean CS2, version 4, or CS4, version 6? My guess is the former since that seems to behave exactly as you describe with the master frame option inaccessible after you've set up the file. In CS2 the master frame is there, but you don't see it on the document page if it is the same size as the margin guides because they obscure the frame edge. If the Ctrl (Cmd) + Shift + Click in the frame area you should see it become visible as it is overridden and selected.
Aside from that, everything in the first two responses is dead on. If the master frame is the size of the margin guides, it's totally superfluous for normal work and more of a hindrence than a help.

Vertical frame texts in master pages...

Have a book with text and a big section of landscape photographs.
Text is no problem. (Portrait)
Tried to put the captions for the pictures (just below in a conventional way with a formatted list) with 2 methods:
a) reducing the margins until obtain a text area where to flow the captions but the text was placed horizontally (of course...)
b) put 2 threaded vertical text frames in the master page but could not flow the text in the regular pages...

So let's see if I have this right, now.
You've put two text frames on the master spread to hold the captions and rotated each of them ninety degrees counter-clockwise. You've threaded the frame on the left page to the one on the right. The captions are all on one continuous story and you've built in a way to make each caption start in the next frame. Is all of that correct?
Describe what you are doing, in detail, from that point forward, and what happens at the end of each step.

Sharing master page layer across frames

FW CS3...
As I see it, a common use for "Pages" in CS3 would be to have
one page for
the "homepage" of a site and another for each major
section... For all the
common elements (like the main BG i use a master page). In my
example I
would also like ot have a sepearte page for the main nav. The
nav page will
have 2 frames: one for the normal state and one for the over
state.
Makes sense so far...
Problem is that the "master page" layer that I see in the
layers pallette
when my Nav page is active does not share across the 2
frames... I can
duplicate the appropriate background areas, but that defeats
the purpose of
having a master page layer doesn't it.
I feel like I am missing something when it comes to using
frames and pages
appropriately. Thoughts?
Alex

Thats a valid point, but with normal layers (as oposed to the
"Master Page"
layer) you get to pick whether or not the layer is shared
across frames ...
why not with teh "Master Page" layer?
A
"deebs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:ffvq9n$kbp$[email protected]..
> One thought is:
>
> one approach may be fine for website but how about
animated GIFs? (I still
> like to lay with animated GIFs)
>
> So, in the case of animated GIFs one may wish to have
one background for a
> few frames and a different background for others. It
seems to add a bit
> of complexity?
>
> Alexander Ross wrote:
>> FW CS3...
>>
>> As I see it, a common use for "Pages" in CS3 would
be to have one page
>> for the "homepage" of a site and another for each
major section... For
>> all the common elements (like the main BG i use a
master page). In my
>> example I would also like ot have a sepearte page
for the main nav. The
>> nav page will have 2 frames: one for the normal
state and one for the
>> over state.
>>
>> Makes sense so far...
>>
>> Problem is that the "master page" layer that I see
in the layers pallette
>> when my Nav page is active does not share across the
2 frames... I can
>> duplicate the appropriate background areas, but that
defeats the purpose
>> of having a master page layer doesn't it.
>>
>> I feel like I am missing something when it comes to
using frames and
>> pages appropriately. Thoughts?
>>
>> Alex

Grahic frame on master but graphic comes in in its own frame on active page

In a template where do you put the graphic frame for an object style? to avoid this?

Janet,
I know you're snowed under with this project. You might save yourself some time though, if you remember that styles are independent of any object -- you apply them to objects, and they don't "live" on any particular page.
What this means is you can define a paragraph or character style, or even an object style, with absolutely nothing on the page and no selections, presuming you know what it is that you want the style to do. Once defined, you can pre-apply an object style to a placeholder frame (or a paragraph style to the insertion point in a placeholder text frame) on the master page, and that frame will pass the applied style to whatever you place into it. Going through the exercise of formatting something just to define a style, then removing the object, is not necessarily a time-saving step.
Peter

My master pages have disappeared from the View menu in Frame Maker and I can't get to them. View does show body pages and reference pages.

Master pages went missing from my FrameMaker 12 setup about 4 days ago. I can see body and references pages. I have tried reinstalling. The master pages are missing from all of my FrameMaker documents, absolutely all of them. I have done two new installations of FM 12, no fix.

Does the old shortcut still work? [Esc, v, M plus its close kin Esc, v, R for Reference pages and Esc, v, B for Body pages – all case-sensitive]
Also, does "missing" mean you select View master pages and get a blank screen? while double-checking the view shortcuts, I discovered this can be replicated by turning off borders [Esc, v, b] in Master page view … if you happen to be using a Master page layout with no header or footer. But I have also, occasionally, ended up with blank master pages even when they should have had content. It's a mystery.

Hierarchical Master Pages - modifying a master page which inherits another

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I am not able to delete items on a new master page (after applying a previous master page) unless I go to that previous master page and delete the items there. I've heard there is the ability to override attributes from hierarchical master page sets. Could I be missing a step?

It's the normal behavior of hierarchical master pages. Check this out:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/muse-feature-tour/adobe-muse-hierarchical-master-pages/

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