Script for Overriding, Outlining, and Clearing Masters

Question

As part of the submission process for one of our printers, we have to outline all the text on a set of labels. I've been trying to write a script to do three steps:
1. Override all Master page objects
2. Apply [none] master to all pages
3. Outline all text
I've gotten pretty far, but I seem to have hit a stumbling block on the Apply [none] master step. Any suggestions?
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var TotalPages = (myDocument.pages.count());
for(var CurrentPage=0; CurrentPage < TotalPages; CurrentPage++) {
     OverrideMasterItems();
function OverrideMasterItems() {
     myDocument.pages[CurrentPage].appliedMaster.pageItems.everyItem().override(myDocument.pages[CurrentPage]);
//this next part is where I have the problem... I would think it would select all the pages in the document, then change the master page to "null" but it doesn't seem to have any effect at all.
try{
    app.activeDocument.pages.everyItem().getElements().changeMaster(null);
    }catch(e){};
//then this final part is working fine.
try{
    app.activeDocument.textFrames.everyItem().createOutlines();
    }catch(e){};

Answer 1

I can't help with your script, but I'll give you the standard advice that oulining text is bad practice, and toatally unnecessary in any reasonalby modern workflow that doesn't involve a cutting machine for making signs, or similar. You should find out WHY this printer seems to think it's necessary when ID automatically embeds all non-protected fonts in a PDF.
If you still want to outline, you don't want to do it by converting text to outlines before exporting. You'll lose all your automated bullets and list numbers and any underlines or paragraph rules. Far better to let the transparency flattener do the job during export. See Possible bug: oulining text w/ flattener in CS5