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Is there a way of exporting to PDF from Indesign CC the master pages only? Without adding them to Pages?
If you are using OSX this would do it
tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2014"
tell active document
set m to every master spread
repeat with i from 1 to count of m
make new spread with properties {applied master:item i of m}
end repeat
end tell
end tell
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No, not directly.
PDF export only applies to document pages. You'd have to add blank pages, apply masters, and export only those pages.
It's hard to imagine a scenario in which master export would be useful. What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
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Thats what I thought, thanks John.
I've been given an indesign file with 133 master spreads, used as a library previously where relevant masters get moved in/out of other indesign files to create brochures. I now need individual copies of each of these masters and didn't particularly want to apply each master to a page to be able to do so.
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It would be fairly easy to script. What OS are you using?
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If you are using OSX this would do it
tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2014"
tell active document
set m to every master spread
repeat with i from 1 to count of m
make new spread with properties {applied master:item i of m}
end repeat
end tell
end tell
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This worked a dream Rob! Thank you so much.