Guides are hanging off of my master pages when copy and pasted

Adrian said:

"This makes no sense. I tried following the instructions, but my "folder" is empty and I'm not sure how to run a "script", any info on how to actually make the script do a thing would be useful. "

Hm. Maybe a video by Dan Rodney will make it more clear for you:

How to Install InDesign & InCopy Scripts
Just Put Them into the Proper Folde

Dan Rodney

https://www.danrodney.com/scripts/directions-installingscripts.html

To execute my script code:

Select a guide and double click the script file once it is available in InDesign's Scripts panel under the User folder there.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

When you are dragging ruler guides out of the ruler, if you release the guide over the page, the guide will stay on the page. If release over the pasteboard, you will create a spread guide that extends to the edges of the pasteboard. In my experience, the guides retain these settings after I copy/paste them—they don't switch from a page guide to a spread guide, or vice versa. 

As for the master page issue, H is set up with a left and right page spread.

If you apply H to 7-8—which are not facing pages—InDesign correctly assigns the left master page to page 7 (a left page) and the right master page to page 8 (a right page). If you apply them to a facing page spread 10-11, they also apply correctly. 

~Barb 

Another hint when working with masters in a facing-pages document:

I think there is no application for a master spread with 6 pages like E-Master in your sample document.

What I do not understand from your description is what goes wrong in your oppinion:
When you apply one master to pages 5-6, with a master containing two facing pages, InDesign will apply the right master to the right document page, that is page 5 and the left master to the left page, that is page 6. Nothing's wrong with that. InDesign's master pages work like that. However, if there is only one master page in the master spread you apply the same master page is applied to both pages.

Could you describe in more detail what you like to see when you apply master pages on document pages?

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Hi Adrian,

when adding guides to a spread you have two options:

[A] The guide's length is limited to the width or the height of a page or

[B] the guide is limited to the height or the width of the whole spread containing the page(s).

In your sample document the horizontal guides on master G-intro brief or some guides on master F-inspiration.

You can convert an existing guide from [B] to [A]. But this requires a script.

Select one single guide a run this ExtendScript (JavaScript) code on the selection:

app.selection[0].fitToPage = true;

How to save ExendScript code to a script file, how to install the script file so that you can run it from InDesign's Scripts panel see: https://www.indiscripts.com/pages/help#hd0sb2

PS: You may guessed it from reading the code above. To get [B] just set false where you see true:

app.selection[0].fitToPage = false;

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )