can you turn a doc page into a master page?

[ben71]

I have a big multi-document job in front of me, and was trying to find a way to get all of the attributes of a regular document page (including guidelines) into a master page. Sure would be nice....thanks for any help.

 

[thombathe]

You can select the text and images copy them and paste into the master page but I don't know of anyway to copy the guides in.

thom

Life without challenges can be very boring

http://www.thombathe.com

 

[GeorgeMack]

If this is a recurring problem, and you're on a Mac, you could write a script that copies position of every vertical guide of current page, then creates new guide on master page X, and repeat with every horizontal guide. Then copy every item on that page (saving position -- Origin is a handy variable here) and paste it at corresponding position on master page X.

This would be a handy toolbox script to keep around, if written generically enough to accommodate different situations.

However, you will have to decide whether every page with different guides deserves its own master page.

Hope this helps,

George

 

[rickwells]

With the Orthogonal line tool and 'snap to guides' on, just draw lines over your guides, select all, note the coordinates then cut and paste to Master Page. Drag guides into place and delete lines.