Bret Perry wrote (Dec. 11):

> can't wait to see how Roy finishes his tomorrow!

It was to laugh. But I finally got a basic working version today:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS4"
activate
--Set/choose the doc to copy from and the doc to copy to.
set myDocA to choose file with prompt ¬
"Choose file to copy pages from:"
set myDocB to choose file with prompt ¬
"Choose file to copy pages to:"
(*
--While working this out I'm using:
set myDocA to " Great Royzito:Users:Home:Dropbox:Public:10A.indd"
set myDocB to " Great Royzito:Users:Home:Dropbox:Public:10B.indd"
--but there's likely no point in "hard-wiring" it otherwise.
*)
--Open/switch to the doc to be copied from.
open myDocA
--Get page count.
set myDocAPageCount to pages per document ¬
of document preferences of active document
--Open/switch to the doc to be copied to.
open myDocB
--Get its page count.
set myDocBPageCount to pages per document ¬
of document preferences of active document
--If not same number of pages, alert and stop.
if myDocAPageCount is not equal to myDocBPageCount then
display dialog "Sorry, not same number of pages."
return
end if
--Loop through determined page count.
repeat with i from 1 to myDocAPageCount
--Switch to first doc (it's already open).
open myDocA
--Go to first or next page and select all.
tell document 1
set active page of layout window 1 to page i
select all
end tell
--Copy.
copy
--Do same with second doc, only paste rather than copy.
open myDocB
tell document 1
set active page of layout window 1 to page i
end tell
paste in place
end repeat
end tell

Yes, I know this is *not* the way to do it. I wound up not consulting
my old PageMaker script, since I remembered well enough what I had done,
and spared myself the agony of trying to get back into the old syntax.
The first thing I want to do now is get this properly fixed up in line
with the object model, and then maybe we can move on to Michael B.'s
nine 2-page spreads. If others find some of the AppleScript demands
curious - with various things having to be done by the application,
document, layout window, etc. - so do I. But it seems like pretty much
everything is nonetheless possible, and it works when you've figured
out how.


Merry Christmas to me (greetings to you too),

Roy


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