Copy/paste scripting

[aghanjar16430960]

"Can I copy an object and paste it into all pages in the same position as if I pressed Ctrl+Shift+Alt+V using a script? Could someone please provide the code?"

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Yes. 

If your document is a single page per Spread then you can iterate through Pages collection and just use app.pasteInPlace().

If multiple pages per Spread - then after initial app.pasteInPlace() you'll have to move horizontally by the width of the page - positive or negative - depends on from which page you've copied it from. 

Of course you need to take into consideration if all pages have the same width and orientation, etc. 

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Hi @aghanjar16430960 , Also, a script can duplicate a selected page item and skip the copy and paste. Something like this:

//a selected object
var s = app.activeDocument.selection[0]

var pg = app.activeDocument.pages.everyItem().getElements()
for (var i = 0; i < pg.length; i++){
    s.duplicate(pg[i])
}

[aghanjar16430960]

thanks