Moving Whole Pages

[ARPhotos]

Hello,

Is it possible to swap an entire page and its contents position with another page withing the same document? 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[Marc Autret]

Try this:

function swapPages(p0, p1)
{
if (p0 == p1) return true;

var pages = app.activeDocument.pages;

var pg0 = pages.itemByName(''+p0);
var pg1 = pages.itemByName(''+p1);

if ( pg0.documentOffset > pg1.documentOffset ) return swapPages(p1,p0);

try {
  pg1.move(LocationOptions.BEFORE,pg0);
  pg0.move(LocationOptions.AFTER,pages.itemByName(''+p1));
  return true;
  }
catch(ex) {return false;}
}

// usage:
swapPages(5,8);

@+

Marc

[ARPhotos]

Thanks! 

[Laubender]

Hello Marc,

I wanted to give your function (thank you for that!) a little UI using a prompt to feed in the two page numbers.

First I tried the following:

var a = prompt(
    "",
    "1,"+app.activeDocument.pages.length, //Predefined page numbers: first & last page
    "Insert TWO page numbers for swapping pages sepparated by a comma."+"\n"+"First and last page of the document are:"
    );
swapPages(a);

That doesn't work as expected. I had a test with a 12-pages document and "$.writeln(a);" wrote "1,12" to the console of the ESTK.

Error: "p0 is not defined"

Why isn't it posible to use the string "1,12" to feed the function?

I was looking for a solution, so I enhanced the code by:

var b=a.split(",");
swapPages(b[0],b[1]);

That is working now. But still the question remains…

Uwe

[Harbs.]

If you want a UI, you can try this script: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2376190#2376190

[Harbs.]

Laubender wrote:

That is working now. But still the question remains…

Uwe

Because you fed the function a single string rather than two arguments.

Harbs

[Laubender]

Thank you, Harbs. So now I know that the comma in the function call cannot be replaced by a string.

Uwe

[Laubender]

Oops. Forget the error message. This was a mistake. Error was "Object is invalid".

Uwe