Indesign help: Objects on pasteboard not moving with pages when pages are moved?

Hi @defaultushj32ip9wa1 , unless a page item touches a page it doesn’t have a parent page, but it does have an associated spread. You can see this via scripting—if I select a page item on the pasteboard and run this, its parent page is null, but it has a parent spread:

var s = app.activeDocument.selection[0];
alert ("\rThis page item’s parent page is " + s.parentPage + "\r\r It‘s placed on spread " +  ((s.parent.index)+1))

I am not sure that the pasteboards are "connected" to any one page. If you have spread 10-11 on the fifth pasteboard, and stick various working items off the page and on the pasteboard, and then add or move pages, the pasteboard items will remain on the same pasteboard even though the page contents move to another. At least, that's always been my experience.

Some page operations may move the whole set while others move only the page and its contents. If you insert pages, each new one comes with its own pasteboard and pushes the others forward with their associated page. But if you insert content that pushes page content down (from 10-11 to 12-13), the pasteboard items will remain where they are. That might explain any differences you're seeing.

And yes, this is exactly the right forum for these questions. 🙂

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Hm. Let's see.

If you move all pages of a spread you move the whole spread.

And along the elements on the spreads' pasteboard of course.

That's all to it, I think.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )