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vickiw26317164
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July 6, 2017
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Can you export masters only - Indesign CC?

  • July 6, 2017
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Is there a way of exporting to PDF from Indesign CC the master pages only? Without adding them to Pages?

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Correct answer rob day

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

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John Mensinger
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 6, 2017

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
Participant
July 6, 2017

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
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 6, 2017

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