NewMasterPage Document Command

NEWMASTERPAGE Document Commands

Creates a new master page in a document or chapter.

newmasterpage [orientation] [sides] [spread] [CHAPTER name | WINDOW name]

name/s The new master page name.

width/d The master page width.

height/d The master page height.

orientation/k The orientation: PORTRAIT (default) | LANDSCAPE.

sides/k The number of sides: SINGLE (default) | DOUBLE.

spread/k The facing pages setting: FACING | INDIVIDUAL.

CHAPTER/s The document/chapter name.

Default=current.

WINDOW/s The window name. Default=current.

Notes:

This command is not equivalent to the menu's Master Page Setup command. To set all the options in that dialog box you must also use the setmarginguides and setcolumnguides commands. The parameters set in this command can be changed later with the setdimensions command.

Examples:

newmasterpage 'Columnar' 8.5 11 landscape double

 

NewMasterPage  Command Definition  url:PGScmd/newmasterpage
  created:2006-03-30 17:19:29   last updated:2006-03-30 17:19:29
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User Contributed Comments For NewMasterPage
Dan Kilroy wrote...2006-05-03 18:35:07

Script command submitted from PageStream internal documentation. Needs to be checked and merged with the command documentation above.

Create the {...} .

newmasterpagename = NewMasterPage (masterpagename pagew pageh [PORTRAIT | LANDSCAPE] [SINGLE | DOUBLE] [FACING | INDIVIDUAL] [DOCUMENT document | CHAPTER document:... | WINDOW document-window])


Parameters:


Results:
As of 5.0.3.4, returns the master page name. The only time this would be different than the requested name is if a master page by that name already exists.


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Applescript:

Tim Doty wrote...2006-08-09 19:00:27

Note, the return value is meaningless for this command (unlike say NewDocument which returns the actual document name). Check for .error to see if there was a problem.

User Contributed Comments For NewMasterPage