Paste In Place to Specify Master Page

Hi,
Can you make a script for app.pasteInPlace() into master A in all my opening document?
I want to paste in place an object to all the opening document's "master A" by script, is that possible?
John White

Hi Jarek,
I am a beginner for script, it’s so hard to write this script by my self,
I found somewhere has this script which made by Laubender:
var oldPasteRem = app.clipboardPreferences.pasteRemembersLayers;
//uncheck “Paste Remembers Layers”
app.clipboardPreferences.pasteRemembersLayers = false;
for (i = 0; i < app.activeDocument.layers.length; i++) {
    //Maybe the user does not want objects pasted to invisible layers:
    if(app.activeDocument.layers[i].visible == true && app.activeDocument.layers[i].locked == false) {
        app.activeDocument.activeLayer = app.activeDocument.layers[i];
        app.pasteInPlace();
//Restore the old condition:
app.clipboardPreferences.pasteRemembersLayers = oldPasteRem;
so can you help me to change it’s function for paste in place on master page?

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thanks
Teetan

Hi,
Modifying your code - notice that function main() suppose to be
1. defined and
2. called
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