Text frames and master page

[Theo331728749dq2]

Text frames for some reason are unlinked to my master page. When I adjust the master page text frame nothing changes on the page text franes.

I forgot to centre the text frame on the master page, now all the text frames on every page are slighlty off centre.

I can centre it with the following:

Select the object style: general option: Fixed width, set the width to 24p

Then window object and layout, align centre.

Problem is I need to do this for over 100 pages.

Is there a way to centre all the text frames with a given object style?

(not vertical justification) horizontally to the margins of the respective page or a way to relink them to the master page text frame and then centre the text box on master page?

[rob day]

Hi @Theo331728749dq2 , can you attach a copy of the document to a reply?

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

This script - posted by @rob day - should help you:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/global-adjustment-to-text-frames-placed-independ...

or at least be a good start.

Of course, if you are on Windows you could always use my tool:

[Theo331728749dq2]

Basically, my text frame is at the correct position at the right hand side but the width needs to be increased on the left hand side by about 2-3mm

I get the following error with the script in the link:

Error 30614

Error string: invalid object for this request

Line 2

[rob day]

I don't think my script in the other thread would work for what you are describing. Can you attach your ID file?

[Theo331728749dq2]

The following shifts all the text frames left:

app.documents[0].pages.everyItem().textFrames.everyItem().

move

(

    // to parameter:

    undefined ,

    [

        "-0.035in" ,

        "0"

    ]

);

But then it’s imposible to know whether all the frames are centred, because I had edited some of the text frames,so I’m trying to figure out how to horizontally “centre” all the text frames. This might be a better option.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

It's a good start - you just need to process this "collection" of objects one-by-one in a loop - that's why I've suggested rob's script - as a template. 

Sorry, I'm not JS guy so can't serve you full working code - just offer ideas / algorithms.