Duplicating a doc and making changes to it without changing the original

PinalV wrote: I want to make changes to a document in indesign CS4 through a script and then perform manipulations on that doc and finally save it to a given path.I don't want the user to see any of this(It must run in the background).The original doc of the user shoud not change.Essentially I want to work on a duplicate of the doc.How do i do it ?

If I understand you correctly - you need to do Save (to preserve current state), make a copy of INDD file, open it as hidden (without window), do your things, save with new name and close.

robin

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